Toxicology and Pharmacology

Food safety is a discipline which describes preparation, handling and storage of food in ways that avoid foodborne illness. This involves a number of routines that should be followed to avoid potentially severe health hazards. Food safety include the origins of food including the practices relating to food labelling, food additives, pesticide residues and food hygiene as well as policies on biotechnology and food. Environmental toxicology is a field of science concerned with the study of the harmful effects of various physical, chemical and biological agents on living organisms. Harmful effects of biological and chemical agents can include toxicants from pesticides, pollutants, fertilizers and insecticides all of which can impact an organism and its community through shifts in species diversity and abundance.