Nap: Drinking Water & Health: Pharmacokinetics In Risk Assessment Vol 8(pr Only)

Pharmacokinetics, the study of the movement of chemicals within the body, is a vital tool in assessing the risk of exposure to environmental chemicals.

This book - a collection of papers authored by experts in academia, industry, and government - reviews the progress of the risk-assessment process and discusses the role of pharmacokinetic principles in evaluating risk.

In addition, the authors discuss software packages used to analyze data and to build models simulating biological phenomena.

A summary chapter provides a view of trends in pharmacokinetic modeling and notes some prospective fields of study.