About the Authors

Patricia Frank is president of Patricia Frank & Associates, Inc., a consulting firm founded in 1993 which assists companies in the development and registration of human and veterinary pharmaceutical agents. She is a past president of the American College of Toxicology, a past president of the Roundtable of Toxicology Consultants, a former councilor for the Midwest Regional Society of Toxicology, and the 2008 winner of the SOT's Kenneth DuBois award.

M. Alice Ottoboni lectures, writes, and consults in the field of toxicology. As Staff Toxicologist with the California State Department of Public Health for over twenty years, she originated, designed, and performed numerous toxicological studies of environmentalchemicals important to public health. She is the author of the previous editions of The Dose Makes the Poison.