A question about the toxology carreer?

Question

What kind of enviorments do toxologists mostly work in?

Answer 1

If you want to believe TV programs like CSI, you might think that they would be hanging around crime scenes and getting in on all the groovy action. In reality, think about what they are doing. The work is 100% lab work so they would work in a lab. Collection of samples would be more left up to other people. The lab they are in would be heavily instrumental since many of the samples would be small. There would probably also be some area to do disections since they would be sampling stomach contents on a fairly regular basis. If you love lab, this might be the place for you.

Answer 2

Xenoestrogens are synthetic substances that differ from those produced by living organisms and imitate or enhance the effect of estrogens. The estrogenic stimulation is an unintended side-effect of these agents or their metabolites.

Xenoestrogens are part of a heterogeneous group of chemicals that are hormone or endocrine disruptors. They differ from phytoestrogens (estrogenic substances from plants), mycoestrogens (estrogenic substances from fungi), and pharmacological estrogens (estrogenic action is intended). External estrogens from a variety of sources may have a cumulative effect upon living organisms, and xenoestrogens may be part of a larger picture of a process of estrogenization of the environment. Xenoestrogens have only been recently (less than 70 years) introduced into the environment, as produced by industrial, agricultural, and chemical companies.