Toxicology Abstracts This database covers issues from social poisons and substance abuse to natural toxins, from legislation and recommended standards to environmental issues. Major areas of subject coverage include: pharmaceuticals, food, additives, and contaminants, agro-chemicals, cosmetics, toiletries, and household products, industrial chemicals, metals, toxins and other natural substances, social poisons and drug abuse, polycyclic hydrocarbons, nitrosamines and related compounds, radiation and radioactive materials, methodology, legislation and recommended standards.