Abstract:Forensic toxicology focuses on medico-legal aspects of chemical exposure and toxic injury on living organism and an environmental hazard i.e. a substance, state or event which has the potential to threaten the natural environment and / or adversely affect people's health. For instance, aldrin: a cyclodiene-organochlorine pesticide, is classified as persistent organic pollutant (POP). The use of aldrin has been banned long ago but still it is detected in ecosystem in its biotransformed form i.e. dieldrin (metab… Show more
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