Pollution: Treating environmental toxins

Environmental pollution resulted from toxic chemicals is a worldwide issue due to their toxicity, persistence, bioaccumulation, and biomagnification in the food chain. Therefore, in order to decrease toxicity of these materials, using a suitable strategy is crucial to find sources of pollution, to detect types of pollutants, and treating diseases caused by toxins. Selected topics have been clearly and logically arranged in Pollution: Treating Environmental Toxins . The book contains eight chapters; each dealing with different aspects of environmental pollution resulted from the toxins entrance from the urban environment to the natural environment. After a general description of the importance of environmental medicine to diagnosing and treating illnesses caused by toxins in the environment in Chapter 1, the author gives details about environmental diseases and tools used in diagnosing diseases in Chapter 2. In this chapter, finding the source of an environmental toxin, the most important step in epidemiology of environmental diseases is presented.