Abstract
In Sweden, toxicology, ecotoxicology, health and environmental risk assessment are disciplines at various universities and colleges, at research institutions connected to central authorities, and in clinics for environmental and occupational medicine. Toxicology in Sweden is concentrated in the Stockholm-Uppsala area. The main center for education and training in toxicology and health risk assessment is the Institute of Environmental Medicine (IMM), Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, while Uppsala University offers Sweden's most extensive education within ecotoxicology. The scientific community in Sweden has for a long time provided important contributions to the improved awareness of chemical risks and environmental protection. Swedish scientists, for instance, focused attention on the health hazards from organic mercury compounds used in agriculture several years before the Minimata poisonings in Japan brought those problems to the attention of the rest of the world. In 1966 PCBs were identified for the first time in wild animals in the Baltic, and later also in humans, by the scientist Sören Jensen at Stockholm University
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