René Truhaut

René Truhaut (May 23, 1909 – May 10, 1994) was a French toxicologist. He was made chairman of the department of toxicology at the Paris Faculty of Medicine. He is known for having introduced the concept of daily intake in 1956, and for coining the term "ecotoxicology" (in 1969) which defined it as "the branch of toxicology concerned with the study of toxic effects, caused by natural or synthetic pollutants, to the constituents of ecosystems, animal (including human), vegetable and microbial, in an integral context”. René Truhaut wrote a Handbook of occupational medicine, a book reprinted several times, which became a classic of this discipline, and hundreds of articles in major scientific journals. Here is the list of his main publications: Truhaut René-Charles-Joseph, Les Dérivés organiques halogénés doués d’activité insecticide, Paris, S.E.D.E.S, 1948 Truhaut René-Charles-Joseph, Principales tendances actuelles de la chimiothérapie anticancéreuse, Paris, Editions Labo-pharma, 1957 Truhaut René-Charles-Joseph, Nouvelles recherches sur l’étiologie du " bouton d’huile", Paris, Institut national de sécurité, 1958 Truhaut René-Charles-Joseph, Toxicologie des produits phytopharmaceutiques (et compléments de législation), leçons professées à la Faculté de pharmacie de Paris, Paris, Société d’édition d’enseignement supérieur, 1954 Truhaut René et Fabre René, Précis de toxicologie, Paris, Société d’édition d’enseignement supérieur, 1960- Truhaut René, Souverain R., Contrôle des substances ajoutées aux aliments, Rome, Organisation des Nations Unies pour l’alimentation et l’agriculture, 1963 Truhaut René, Fabre René, Régnier M-T, Traitement d’urgence des intoxications, Paris, G.