BME Vegyészmérnöki és Biomérnöki Kar

Environmental toxicology

BMEVEMBM401

Environmental toxicology as part of the risk based environmental management plays more and more important role. Both the theoretical background and the practice will be discussed in details and the application in the risk assessment, risk management and in the environmental decision making.

Main aim of the subject is to give an overview on the effect-based tools of the modern environmental risk management.

Short description by enlisting the topics

• The basics of environmental toxicology, the effects of chemicals and the measurement of the effect.
• Measuring toxicity and other adverse effects, classification of the test methods according to different aspects, like test-organism, size and type of tests, duration, and endpoints.
• Most widespread methodologies, their evaluation, statistics and interpretation. Use of ecotoxicity result in generic and site specific risk assessment of chemicals, in the site and land use specific assessment of contaminated land, for integrated environmental monitoring, in creating environmental quality criteria and priority setting, in the risk based environmental management and decision making.
• Soil and soil-specific tests and the Soil Testing Triad have special importance.

The typical applications of the environmental toxicity testing are discussed in details and case studies are introduced in interactive form.