**Forensic Toxicology**

Donata Favretto, Massimo Montisci and Rossella Snenghi

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http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/60445

**1. Introduction**

Forensic toxicology can be defined as the discipline of studiying under a forensic profile the pathologies induced by xenobiotics. This term comprehends all substances of exogenous origin that do not have a physiological role in the biochemical processes of the organism. Xenobiotics are poisons, drugs, drugs of abuse, toxins, pesticides, chemicals and agrochemicals, doping substances and, in part, food supplements.

The following application areas will be discussed: poisoning; alcohol, drugs and driving; workplace drug testing (WDT); doping-antidoping.
