Environmental toxicology research includes hazardous chemical risk assessment, removal of organic and inorganic pollutants from water, characterization of industrial breakdown products, and chemical and biological degradation of toxic wastes.

Several scientists in this program have developed strategies for the hazard and risk assessment of chemical waste dumpsites before, during and after remediation. This is accomplished by high-resolution analysis of chemical waste extracts, extensive surveys of dumpsites, and development of specific bioassays for quantitative hazard assessment at selected sites.

Food safety and applied toxicology research activities include projects focusing on development of methods for detoxification of food-borne toxins and microbial contaminants, fungal genetics, and the development and application of novel methods to study mycotoxins, food-borne endobiotics, xenobiotics and other contaminants.

Additional studies include the effects of plant toxins, pesticides, diverse environmental and industrial toxins and metabolism of naturally-occurring toxins, drugs, pesticides and environmental contaminants in domestic and laboratory animals.

Environmental & Applied Toxicology & Food Safety Faculty