[Quality Assurance in Toxicology and Safety Science]

Yakugaku Zasshi. 2021;141(6):813-816. doi: 10.1248/yakushi.20-00217-5.
[Article in Japanese]

Abstract

For human health and welfare, toxicology/safety science is a branch of the pharmaceutical sciences dealing with the risk or benefit of pharmaceutical products derived from organic compounds, proteins, and genes, as well as chemicals contained in cosmetics or food additives. The quality of pharmaceutical products is one of the factors that decide risk or benefit, so quality assurance based on regulatory science is an important research and education area in the field of toxicology/safety science.

Keywords: biologics; nanomaterial; quality assurance; regulatory science; safety science; toxicology.

Publication types

  • Review

MeSH terms

  • Biopharmaceutics*
  • Cosmetics / chemistry
  • Food Additives / chemistry
  • Humans
  • Pharmaceutical Preparations* / chemistry
  • Quality Assurance, Health Care*
  • Quality Control*
  • Risk Assessment
  • Safety*
  • Toxicology*

Substances

  • Cosmetics
  • Food Additives
  • Pharmaceutical Preparations