3TOXICITY TESTING—AN INDUSTRY VIEWPOINT

The Forum is intended to provide for dialogue and discussion among fire experts, scientists and consultants. Contributions to The Forum will not be refereed in the conventional sense, but will be subject to review by the Journal’s Editorial Board relative to appropriateness, clarity, timeliness, and scope of interest. The Editorial Board will be the sole judge of those contributions to be published. Opinions expressed, however, are those of the authors and not of the Editors or Technomic Publishing Com-pany, Incorporated Toxicology has become an accepted part of any new product’s development in the chemical industry. Guidelines and regula-tions have been in existence for some time to aid in the bio-logical assessment of drugs and agricultural chemicals, and recently premarketing notification schemes have been intro-duced in Europe and USA for all &dquo;new&dquo; chemicals. In Europe