Book Reviews A Guide to Practical Toxicology—Evaluation, Prediction and

Although toxicology has become increasingly important in the 21st century, and although it is now taught as an academic discipline in many universities worldwide, much of the craft and everyday knowledge involved in conducting and interpret-ing studies performed to characterize the potential hazards of the substances which are of everyday concern (so called “reg-ulatory toxicology ” or “testing”) goes on both ignored by the academic world and largely undocumented in scholarly pub-lications. Much of what many years of experience teaches is being lost because of this (as it has previously been in the past), only to have to be relearned by each new generation of prac-titioners. These points of the craft—in some cases, almost the unspoken little secrets of a professional community and their near colleagues—are not limited to laboratory techniques, but also extend to the interpretation of results and the use and pre