Historians will likely look back at the early part of the 21st century and note that it was a time that society searched for, out of necessity, a new economic equilibrium. Escalating costs for goods and services, dwindling resources, global environmental challenges, aging populations, etc, have either contributed to the need for a new economic realignment or will be impacted by the consequences of one. The new economic realignment will certainly call for novel, better, and more efficient products and the processes to make them. Toxicologists cannot ignore the impact that a new economic equilibrium and the process of achieving it will have upon how they practice their profession.
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