Second symposium on Environmental Toxicology in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany-interdisciplinary research activities in toxicology, statistics, hygiene and medicine: meeting report on a symposium held in Dortmund May 19-20, 2011.

摘要

The second symposium on Environmental Toxicology in North Rhine-Westphalia 2011 (EnTox 2011), held at the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Physiology in Dortmund on May 19-20, addressed important aspects and current problems concerning environmental exposures in North Rhine-Westphalia. North Rhine-Westphalia is the most industrialised federal state in Germany, characterised by chemical industry, metal industry and a long history of mining activities. More than 60 scientists from North Rhine-Westphalia and almost all disciplines involved in this topical field of research convened for the second time-after the first symposium in 2007-for a fruitful interdisciplinary discussion of current and past exposures, public health concerns as well as on technical and statistical methods (Fig. 1).