Uruguay

Abstract

Toxicology finds its roots in Uruguay in 1975 when the Information and Assessment Toxicology Center (CIAT) was founded by the Faculty of Medicine of the Republic University. It was created due to an increasing concern about potentially toxic chemicals and their impact on human health. Since Uruguay has an agriculture-based economy, pesticides were of particular concern. Many professors from the Emergency, Legal Medicine, and Internal Medicine Departments supported the development of the CIAT. Professor Eva Fogel was one of the pioneers and its first Professor Director. Eventually the poison center became the Toxicology Department and developed the post graduation program for Clinical Toxicology specialists in 1981.