Environmental toxicology focuses on assessing the health effects of chemicals and other potentially harmful agents on living organisms. Ecotoxicology, often considered a subdiscipline of environmental toxicology, considers the harmful effects of toxicants at both the population and ecosystem level. These toxicity and risk assessments are complementary to understanding the source, occurrence, and identities of harmful substances. They are also necessary for the development and improvement of emerging regulatory policies being promulgated and enforced in many countries around the world.
Because of the complexity of this research, it’s a multidisciplinary field involving chemistry, biology, environmental sciences, environmental health, and toxicology including aquatic toxicology. Effect-directed analysis (EDA) and cell toxicity are currently generating the most interest in the scientific community.
Agilent is committed to helping scientists solve the most difficult environmental toxicology problems and minimizing the effects of toxic pollutants on living organisms with solutions encompassing sample preparation, consumables, instrumentation, bioassays, and expert training to keep the environment healthy and safe.
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Cell-based toxicological profiling is a rapidly growing field that is empowering researchers to better understand the effects of environmental pollutants. Agilent offers solutions for live cell analysis, label-free cell analysis, and cell imaging.
Due to the complexity of environmental toxicity samples, an integrated approach such as effect-directed analysis (EDA) can play an effective role in identifying toxic chemicals and performing risk assessments.
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