Nitrates as an Environmental, Animal, and Human Hazard

The public's awareness of foreign chemicals polluting our environment during the previous decade has promoted the government's current high interest in the pollution problem. As a result, the applied fields of health (medicine, dentistry, veterinary medicine, nursing, public health, and others including social and psychological health) have been stimulated to increase their concern, We, as practicing scientists, must keep up-to-date in this area of applied health, When considering our environment in regards to environmental pollution, we must consider three basic surroundings-air, water, and soil. Each of these constitutes a dynamic system incorporating sensitive and balanced ecologic systems. In many instances, the biotic and abiotic entities of one biologic system are interconnected, and the entities within the ecologic systems of each biologic system are cyclic and interrelated. The most studied relationship is that involved in the phases of the food chain cycle within an ecologic system.