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Chapters in Toxicology
  • Toxicology Introduction
  • Algal Poisoning
  • Cyanide Poisoning
  • Food Hazards
  • Herbicide Poisoning
  • Household Hazards
  • Mycotoxicoses
  • Toxicities from Human Drugs
  • Nonprotein Nitrogen Poisoning
  • Coal-Tar Poisoning
  • Ethylene Glycol Toxicity
  • Nitrate and Nitrite Poisoning
  • Pentachlorophenol Poisoning
  • Petroleum Product Poisoning
  • Persistent Halogenated Aromatic Poisoning
  • Insecticide and Acaricide (Organic) Toxicity
  • Metaldehyde Poisoning
  • Arsenic Poisoning
  • Copper Poisoning
  • Fluoride Poisoning
  • Iron Toxicity in Newborn Pigs
  • Lead Poisoning
  • Mercury Poisoning
  • Molybdenum Poisoning
  • Salt Toxicity
  • Selenium Toxicosis
  • Zinc Toxicosis
  • Bracken Fern Poisoning
  • Gossypol Poisoning
  • Plants Poisonous to Animals
  • Poisonous Mushrooms
  • Pyrrolizidine Alkaloidosis
  • Quercus Poisoning
  • Ryegrass Toxicity
  • Sorghum Poisoning
  • Sweet Clover Poisoning
  • Cantharidin Poisoning
  • Snakebite
  • Toad Poisoning
  • Venomous Arthropods
  • Rodenticide Poisoning
  • Strychnine Poisoning
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  • Overview of Household Hazards
  • Alcohols
  • Chlorine Bleaches
  • Corrosives
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    Overview of Household Hazards

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    Also see Rodenticide Poisoning and see Toxicities from Human Drugs and see Plants Poisonous to Animals and see Food Hazards.

    Household chemicals (eg, products containing alcohols, bleaches, or corrosives) found in the home represent a risk of toxicosis if companion animals are exposed to concentrates or undiluted products, but casual exposure to areas in which these compounds have been used appropriately rarely causes any serious problems.

    Last full review/revision March 2012 by Sharon M. Gwaltney-Brant, DVM, PhD, DABVT, DABT

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