"Developed from a symposium sponsored by the Division of Environmental Chemistry, Inc., at the 203rd National Meeting of the American Chemical Society, San Francisco, California, April 5-10, 1992." Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Assessing environmental risk : scientifically defensible or fantasy? / Vernon N. Houk -- The epidemiological method / Gary H. Spivey -- Design methods for occupational and environmental epidemiology / MaryFran Sowers -- Interpreting epidemiological studies / George Maldonado -- Environmental epidemiology for chemists / Curtis D. Klaassen and William C. Kershaw -- Toxicology and risk assessment / Arthur L. Craigmill, Scott Wetzlich, and William M. Draper -- In vitro and in vivo assays to screen for reproductive toxicants in animals and humans / Barbara S. Shane -- The Gene-Tox Program : data evaluation of chemically induced mutagenicity / Michael C. Cimino and Angela E. Auletta -- Biological, biochemical, and molecular markers in environmental epidemiology / Marilyn F. Vine -- Examples of measuring internal dose for assessing exposure in epidemiological studies / Larry L. Needham -- Research strategy for assessing human health risks from exposure to DNA-reactive chemicals : 1,3-butadiene as a case study / James A. Bond, Leslie Recio, and Roger O. McClellan -- Molecular epidemiology of acrylonitrile : indicators of health risk by worker surveillance and regiospecific modification of Ha-ras oncogene / John L. Wong [and others] -- Estimation of risk of kidney dysfunction from exposure to cadmium using studies of occupationally exposed workers / Elizabeth A. Grossman and Caroline S. Freeman -- Estimating malathion doses in California's Medfly eradication campaign using a physiologically based pharmacokinetic model / Michael H. Dong [and others] -- An epidemiological assessment of the Cantara metam sodium spill : acute health effects and methyl isothiocyanate exposure / Richard A. Kreutzer, David J. Hewitt, and William M. Draper -- Access to data for epidemiological studies / Ralph R. Cook [and others] -- The successes and failures of environmental epidemiology / Raymond Richard Neutra.