Talk:Certain safety factor

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01:00, 22 September 2007 Pzavon (Talk | contribs) (733 bytes) (remove Toxicology "See Also" and category. Term may be used in pharmacology, but is not used in toxicology) (undo)

According to Wikipedia, Toxicology is a subcatagory of pharmacology.Miserlou 16:45, 22 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Not everything in Wikipedia is precisely correct at any given moment. While Toxicology and Pharmacology are closely related, there is not a subcategory relationship.

Actually, I see the Category page says that Pharmacology "encompases" Toxicology. That is true but does not imply subcategory relationship. Tox is indeed important to Pharm and a Pharmacologist should know something of the toxicology of pharmaceuticals, but Tox also reaches to areas that are not within the realm of Pharm - the development of pesticides, for example. Pzavon 21:20, 22 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Toxicology is the pharmacology of toxic substances or the toxic action of substances. This is the view of many authoritative text books and monographs on the subject. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.7.36.69 (talk) 05:57, 16 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

That is likely the way a Pharmacologist would put it, but I don't think that is accepted in the community of Toxicologists who deal with non-medicinal toxicology, as in pesticides, lead in children, tox testing of new materials or children's art supplies, etc. Pzavon (talk) 02:48, 17 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

This term is better known as the "Margin of Safety" in toxicology, as far as I am aware. -GUC —Preceding unsigned comment added by 41.233.140.73 (talk) 21:39, 1 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Merger proposal

The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section. A summary of the conclusions reached follows.

The result of this discussion was to Merge, there being no objections and the proposal has been open for more than a month. Klbrain (talk) 21:35, 4 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I propose that Certain safety factor be merged into Therapeutic index. The two measurement formuluae are very similar, and can easily be accommodated on one page. Klbrain (talk) 12:07, 28 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

This article was nominated for merging with Therapeutic index#The Safety Ratio on 28 August 2015. The result of the discussion was merge.