Chile

updated Apr 20, 2010 by Nick Thorp

Country Correspondent

Juan Carlos Rios

Overview

View Chile in a larger map Legend:

= Government Agency,

= NGO,

= University,

= Professional Society,

= Poison Control Center,

= Toxic Site.

In Chile, the teaching of toxicology started shortly after 1900 in the Pharmacy School of the University of Chile when that school was part of the Medicine Faculty, under the direction of Dr. Carlos Ghighliotto. The subjects taught there were compiled under the title "Toxicology, Legal Pharmacy". In 1950 Professor Hermann Schmidt Hebbel, pharmacist and professor of bromatology published articles in the journal "The Pharmacist." These were later compiled in the text "Toxicology Manual: Its Projections Toward Industrial Hygiene and Forensic Chemistry" which was a required study text for several generations.

A version of this article was published in Information Resources in Toxicology, 4th Edition,Juan Carlos Rios and Juan Jose Mieres, Copyright Elsevier (2009).

Government Agencies

Chilean Government (Gobierno de Chile)
Ministry of Agricultura (Ministerio de Agricultura)
- Institute of Agricultural Investigations (Instituto de Investigaciones Agropecuarias)
- National Forestal Corporation (Corporacion Nacional Forestal)
- Service of Agriculture and Livestock Issues (Servicio Agricola y Ganadero)
Ministry of Health (Ministerio de Salud)
- Epidemiology Department (Departamento de Epidemiologia)
- National Central of Supplying (Central Nacional de Abastecimiento)
- Public Health Institute (Instituto de Salud Publica)
- Sanitary Authority Region Metropolitana (Autoridad Sanitaria Region Metropolitana)
Ministry of Home Affairs (Ministerio del Interior)
- National Council for Narcotics Control (Consejo Nacional para el Control de Estupefacientes)
- National Office of Emergency (Oficina Nacional de Emergencia)
- Subsecretariat of Regional and Administrative Development (Subsecretaria de Desarrollo Regional y Administrativo)
Ministry of Justice (Ministerio de Justicia)
- Legal Medicine Service (Servicio Medico Legal)
Ministry of Labor and Social Security (Ministerio del Trabajo y Prevision Social)
- Institute of Previsional Normalization (Instituto de Normalizacion Previsional)
- National Ergonomic Committee (Comision Ergonomica Nacional)
- Superintendence of Social Security (Superintendencia de Seguridad Social)
Ministry of Mining and Energy (Ministerio de Mineria y Energia)
- Chilean Committee of Nuclear Energy (Comision Chilena de Energia Nuclear)
- National Commitee for Energy (Comisiin Nacional de Energia)
- National Company of Mining (Empresa Nacional de Mineria)
- National Company of Oil (Empresa Nacional del Petroleo)
- National Corporation of Copper (Corporacion Nacional del Cobre)
- National Service of Geology and Mining (Servicio Nacional de Geologia y Minería)
Ministry of Public Buildings (Ministerio de Obras Publicas)
- General Council of Water (Direccion General de Aguas)
Ministerio Secretaria General de la Presidencia
- National Committee of the Environment (Comision Nacional del Medio Ambiente)
Presidency of the Republic of Chile (Presidencia de la República)

Non-Government Organizations

Chilean Security Association (Asociacion Chilena de Seguridad)
Environment Institute (Instituto del Medio Ambiente)
Environmental South Corporation (Corporacion Ambiental del Sur)
Institute of Biomedic Sciences (Instituto de Ciencias Biomedicas)
Institute of Nutrition and Food Technology (Instituto de Nutricion y Tecnologia de los Alimentos (INTA))
Institute of Work Security (Instituto de Seguridad del Trabajo)
Mutual de Seguridad Cámara Chilena de la Construccion
National Environmental Center (Centro Nacional del Medio Ambiente)
Network of Toxicological Information and Awareness (Red de Información Toxicologica y Alerta)

Universities

Austral University of Chile (Universidad Austral de Chile)
- Center for Environmental Studies (Centro de Estudios Ambientales UAch)
- Regional Center for Resources and Environmental Analysis (Centro Regional de Anílisis de Recursos y Medio Ambiente (CERAM))
De la Frontera University (Universidad de la Frontera)
- Environment Institute (Instituto del Medio Ambiente)
Federico Santa Maria Technical University (Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa María)
- Environmental Chemistry Laboratory (Laboratorio de Química Ambiental)
Los Andes University (Universidad de Los Andes)
- Environmental Studies Center (Centro de Estudios del Medioambiente)
Pontifical Catholic University of Chile (Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile)
- Center for Advanced Studies in Ecology & Biodiversity (Centro de Estudios Avanzados en Ecologia y Biodiversidad)
Pontifical Catholic University of Valparaiso (Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Valparaiso)
- Quality Control and Environmental Assessment Laboratory (Laboratorio de Control de Calidad y Gestión Ambiental, QUIFAC}
University of Chile (Universidad de Chile)
- Agriculture and Environment Center (Centro de Agricultura y Medio Ambiente)
- Environmental Law Center (Centro de derecho Ambiental)
- Environmental and Biomedicine Research Center (Centro de Investigaciones del Medio Ambiente y Biomedicina, CIMAB)
- Genotoxic Risk Assessment Center (Centro de Evaluacion de Riesgos Genotoxicos)
University of Playa Ancha. Valparaiso-Chile (Universidad de Playa Ancha. Valparaiso Chile)
- Laboratory of Human and Environmental Toxicology (Laboratorio de Toxicologia Humana y Ambiental)
University of Santiago of Chile (Universidad de Santiago de Chile)
- Environmental Sciences (Departamento de Ciencias del Ambiente)
University of Talca (Universidad de Talca)
- Natural Resources Chemistry Institute (Instituto de Química de Recursos Naturales)
- Research Center and Transference in Irrigation and Agroclimatology (Centro de Investigacion y Transferencia en Riego y Agroclimatologia)
University of Valparaiso (Universidad de Valparaiso)
- Quality Control and Environmental Assessment Laboratory (Laboratorio de Control de Calidad y Gestion Ambiental)

Professional Societies

Chilean Medical Association (Colegio Medico de Chile)
Chilean Society of Nutrition, Bromatology and Toxicology (Sociedad Chilena de Nutricion, Bromatologia y Toxicologia)

Poison Information/Control Centers

Toxicological Information Center of the Catholic University (Centro de Informacion Toxicologica Universidad Catolica (CITUC)

Miscellaneous Resources

National Institute of Statistics (Instituto Nacional de Estadística)

Key Publications

Chilean Journal of Medicine (Revista Medica de Chile Journal)
Chilean Journal of Public Health (Revista Chilena De Salud Publica)
Journal of the Chilean Chemical Society (Boletín de la Sociedad Chilena de Química)
Journal Of Marine Biology and Oceanography (Revista de Biologia Marina y Oceanografia)

Legal Links

Environmental Regulation (Normativa Ambiental)
National Congress (Congreso Nacional)
National Institute of Standardization (Instituto Nacional de Normalizacion)

About Chile

Background Notes: Chile (US Department of State)
Consular Information Sheet: Chile (US Department of State)
Country Study: Chile (US Library of Congress)
Culture Crossing: Chile (Cultural Etiquette for Interacting with People from Chile)
National Tourism Service (Servicio Nacional de Turismo-Sernatur)
Newspapers
Portals to the World: Chile (US Library of Congress)
The World Fact Book: Chile (US Central Intelligence Agency)
World Health Organization & Environmental Burden of Disease Country Profile (PDF - 135 KB)

Multilateral Organization Contacts

Multilateral Organization Resource Contacts

Literature References from TOXLINE (Chile)

Search for Literature Related to Chile
Search for Literature by Authors in Chile

Note: Overlap between these two sets of search results is likely.

{authors}
Country Correspondent:
[Juan Carlos Rios|wlt:Juan Carlos Rios]
{authors} !Chile.jpg!

h1. Overview


----
{google-map}
<iframe width="850" height="350" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" src="http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&amp;hl=en&amp;t=h&amp;msa=0&amp;msid=100266875946077246436.00047ceb034ebeeb3abdf&amp;ll=-38.099983,-83.496094&amp;spn=12.095,37.353516&amp;z=5&amp;output=embed"></iframe><br /><small>View <a href="http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&amp;hl=en&amp;t=h&amp;msa=0&amp;msid=100266875946077246436.00047ceb034ebeeb3abdf&amp;ll=-38.099983,-83.496094&amp;spn=12.095,37.353516&amp;z=5&amp;source=embed" style="color:#0000FF;text-align:left">Chile</a> in a larger map</small> Legend: <img src="http://toxipedia.org/download/attachments/1871750/blue.JPG" width="20" height="15">= Government Agency, <img src="http://toxipedia.org/download/attachments/1871750/red.JPG" width="20" height="15">= NGO, <img src="http://www.toxipedia.org/download/attachments/5999808/green.jpg" width="20" height="15">= University, <img src="http://toxipedia.org/download/attachments/1871750/yellow.JPG" width="20" height="15">= Professional Society, <img src="http://www.toxipedia.org/download/attachments/5999808/purple.jpg" width="20" height="15">= Poison Control Center, <img src="http://www.toxipedia.org/download/attachments/5999808/twaste1.jpg" width="20" height="15">= Toxic Site.
{google-map}

In Chile, the teaching of toxicology started shortly after 1900 in the Pharmacy School of the University of Chile when that school was part of the Medicine Faculty, under the direction of Dr. Carlos Ghighliotto. The subjects taught there were compiled under the title "Toxicology, Legal Pharmacy". In 1950 Professor Hermann Schmidt Hebbel, pharmacist and professor of bromatology published articles in the journal "The Pharmacist."  These were later compiled in the text "Toxicology Manual: Its Projections Toward Industrial Hygiene and Forensic Chemistry" which was a required study text for several generations.

_A version of this article was published in +Information Resources in Toxicology+, 4th Edition,Juan Carlos Rios and Juan Jose Mieres, Copyright Elsevier (2009)._

\\

h1. Government Agencies


----
* [Chilean Government|http://www.chileangovernment.cl/] [(Gobierno de Chile)|http://www.gobiernodechile.cl/]
* [Ministry of Agricultura (Ministerio de Agricultura)|http://www.agricultura.gob.cl/]
** [Institute of Agricultural Investigations|http://www.inia.cl/link.cgi/URI/] [(Instituto de Investigaciones Agropecuarias)|http://www.inia.cl/]
** [National Forestal Corporation (Corporacion Nacional Forestal)|http://www.conaf.gob.cl/]
** Service of Agriculture and Livestock Issues [(Servicio Agricola y Ganadero)|http://www.sag.gob.cl/]
* Ministry of Health [(Ministerio de Salud)|http://www.minsal.cl/]
** Epidemiology Department [(Departamento de Epidemiologia)|http://epi.minsal.cl/]
** National Central of Supplying [(Central Nacional de Abastecimiento)|http://www.cenabast.cl/]
** Public Health Institute ([Instituto de Salud Publica)|http://www.ispch.cl/]
** Sanitary Authority Region Metropolitana [(Autoridad Sanitaria Region Metropolitana)|http://www.asrm.cl/]
* Ministry of Home Affairs [(Ministerio del Interior)|http://www.interior.gov.cl/]
** National Council for Narcotics Control [(Consejo Nacional para el Control de Estupefacientes)|http://www.conacedrogas.cl/]
** National Office of Emergency [(Oficina Nacional de Emergencia)|http://www.onemi.cl/]
** Subsecretariat of Regional and Administrative Development [(Subsecretaria de Desarrollo Regional y Administrativo)|http://www.subdere.gov.cl/]
* Ministry of Justice [(Ministerio de Justicia)|http://www.minjusticia.cl/]
** Legal Medicine Service [(Servicio Medico Legal)|http://www.sml.cl/]
* Ministry of Labor and Social Security [(Ministerio del Trabajo y Prevision Social)|http://www.mintrab.cl/]
** Institute of Previsional Normalization [(Instituto de Normalizacion Previsional)|http://www.inp.cl/]
** National Ergonomic Committee [(Comision Ergonomica Nacional)|http://www.ergonomica.cl/]
** Superintendence of Social Security [(Superintendencia de Seguridad Social)|http://www.suseso.cl/]
* Ministry of Mining and Energy [(Ministerio de Mineria y Energia)|http://www.minmineria.cl/]
** Chilean Committee of Nuclear Energy [(Comision Chilena de Energia Nuclear)|http://www.cchen.cl/]
** National Commitee for Energy [(Comisiin Nacional de Energia)|http://www.cne.cl/]
** National Company of Mining [(Empresa Nacional de Mineria)|http://www.enami.cl/]
** National Company of Oil [(Empresa Nacional del Petroleo)|http://www.enap.cl/]
** National Corporation of Copper [(Corporacion Nacional del Cobre)|http://www.codelco.cl/]
** National Service of Geology and Mining [(Servicio Nacional de Geologia y Minería)|http://www.sernageomin.cl/]
* Ministry of Public Buildings [(Ministerio de Obras Publicas)|http://www.moptt.cl/]
** General Council of Water [(Direccion General de Aguas)|http://www.dga.cl/]
* Ministerio Secretaria General de la Presidencia
** National Committee of the Environment [(Comision Nacional del Medio Ambiente)|http://www.conama.cl/]
* Presidency of the Republic of Chile [(Presidencia de la República)|http://www.presidencia.cl/]

\\

h1. Non-Government Organizations


----
* Chilean Security Association [(Asociacion Chilena de Seguridad)|http://www.achs.cl/]
* Environment Institute [(Instituto del Medio Ambiente)|http://www.ima.ufro.cl/]
* Environmental South Corporation [(Corporacion Ambiental del Sur)|http://www.corporacionambiental.cl/]
* Institute of Biomedic Sciences [(Instituto de Ciencias Biomedicas)|http://icbm.cl/]
* Institute of Nutrition and Food Technology [(Instituto de Nutricion y Tecnologia de los Alimentos (INTA))|http://www.inta.cl/]
* Institute of Work Security [(Instituto de Seguridad del Trabajo)|http://www.ist.cl/]
* [Mutual de Seguridad Cámara Chilena de la Construccion|http://www.mutualseg.cl/]
* National Environmental Center [(Centro Nacional del Medio Ambiente)|http://www.cenma.cl/]
* Network of Toxicological Information and Awareness [(Red de Información Toxicologica y Alerta)|http://www.ritachile.cl/]

\\

h1. Universities


----
* [Austral University of Chile|http://www.uach.cl/catalogo/english/index.htm] [(Universidad Austral de Chile)|http://www.uach.cl/]
** Center for Environmental Studies [(Centro de Estudios Ambientales UAch)|http://www.uach.cl/ceam/]
** Regional Center for Resources and Environmental Analysis [(Centro Regional de Anílisis de Recursos y Medio Ambiente (CERAM))|http://www.uach.cl/centro/regionaldeanalisisambiental/]
* De la Frontera University [(Universidad de la Frontera)|http://www.ufro.cl/]
** Environment Institute [(Instituto del Medio Ambiente)|http://www.ima.ufro.cl/]
* [Federico Santa Maria Technical University|http://www.oai.utfsm.cl/en/] [(Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa María)|http://www.utfsm.cl/]
** Environmental Chemistry Laboratory [(Laboratorio de Química Ambiental)|http://www.lqa.utfsm.cl/paginas/index/index.php]
* Los Andes University [(Universidad de Los Andes)|http://www.uandes.cl/]
** Environmental Studies Center [(Centro de Estudios del Medioambiente)|http://www.uandes.cl/centros-de-estudios/centro-de-estudios-del-medioambiente.html]
* [Pontifical Catholic University of Chile|http://www.puc.cl/webpuc/html/menuingles.html] [(Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile)|http://www.puc.cl/]
** [Center for Advanced Studies in Ecology & Biodiversity|http://www.bio.puc.cl/caseb/] [(Centro de Estudios Avanzados en Ecologia y Biodiversidad)|http://www.bio.puc.cl/caseb/index_e.html]
* [Pontifical Catholic University of Valparaiso|http://www.uc.cl/webpuc/site/edic/base/port/info_para_english.php] [(Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Valparaiso)|http://www.ucv.cl/]
** Quality Control and Environmental Assessment Laboratory [(Laboratorio de Control de Calidad y Gestión Ambiental, QUIFAC}|http://www.uv.cl/quifac.htm]
* University of Chile [(Universidad de Chile)|http://www.uchile.cl/]
** Agriculture and Environment Center [(Centro de Agricultura y Medio Ambiente)|http://www.agrimed.cl/]
** Environmental Law Center [(Centro de derecho Ambiental)|http://www.derecho.uchile.cl/cda/cda2006/]
** Environmental and Biomedicine Research Center [(Centro de Investigaciones del Medio Ambiente y Biomedicina, CIMAB)|http://www.med.uchile.cl/centros/cimab.html]
** Genotoxic Risk Assessment Center [(Centro de Evaluacion de Riesgos Genotoxicos)|http://www.odontologia.uchile.cl/servicios/cerig/index.htm]
* University of Playa Ancha. Valparaiso-Chile [(Universidad de Playa Ancha. Valparaiso Chile)|http://www.upa.cl/]
** [Laboratory of Human and Environmental Toxicology|http://www.upa.cl/prontus_upla/site/edic/base/port/inicio_eng.html] [(Laboratorio de Toxicologia Humana y Ambiental)|http://www.upa.cl/prontus_upla/site/artic/20070330/pags/20070330105605.html]
* University of Santiago  of Chile [(Universidad de Santiago de Chile)|http://www.usach.cl/]
** Environmental Sciences [(Departamento de Ciencias del Ambiente)|http://www.faculqyb.usach.cl/cienamb/index.html]
* [University of Talca|http://www.utalca.cl/link.cgi//EnglishVersion/GeneralInformation/] [(Universidad de Talca)|http://www.utalca.cl/link.cgi/]
** Natural Resources Chemistry Institute [(Instituto de Química de Recursos Naturales)|http://dta.utalca.cl/quimica/]
** Research Center and Transference in Irrigation and Agroclimatology [(Centro de Investigacion y Transferencia en Riego y Agroclimatologia)|http://www.citrautalca.cl/]
* University of Valparaiso [(Universidad de Valparaiso)|http://www.uv.cl/]
** Quality Control and Environmental Assessment Laboratory [(Laboratorio de Control de Calidad y Gestion Ambiental)|http://www.uv.cl/seleccion_facultades.htm]

\\

h1. Professional Societies


----
* Chilean Medical Association [(Colegio Medico de Chile)|http://www.colegiomedico.cl/]
* Chilean Society of Nutrition, Bromatology and Toxicology [(Sociedad Chilena de Nutricion, Bromatologia y Toxicologia)|http://www.sochinut.cl/]

\\

h1. Poison Information/Control Centers


----
* Toxicological Information Center of the Catholic University [(Centro de Informacion Toxicologica Universidad Catolica (CITUC)|http://www.cituc.cl/]

\\

h1. Miscellaneous Resources


----
* [National Institute of Statistics|http://www.ine.cl/canales/chile_estadistico/home_eng.php?lang=eng] [(Instituto Nacional de Estadística)|http://www.ine.cl/canales/chile_estadistico/home.php]

\\

h1. Key Publications


----
* [Chilean Journal of Medicine|http://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_serial&pid=0034-9887&lng=en&nrm=iso] [(Revista Medica de Chile Journal)|http://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_serial&pid=0034-9887]
* Chilean Journal of Public Health [(Revista Chilena De Salud Publica)|http://www.saludpublica.uchile.cl/revista.htm]
* [Journal of the Chilean Chemical Society|http://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php/script_sci_serial/lng_en/pid_0717-9707/nrm_iso] [(Boletín de la Sociedad Chilena de Química)|http://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php/script_sci_serial/pid_0717-9707/lng_es/nrm_iso]
* Journal Of Marine Biology and Oceanography [(Revista de Biologia Marina y Oceanografia)|http://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php/script_sci_serial/pid_0718-1957/lng_es/nrm_iso]

\\

h1. Legal Links


----
* Environmental Regulation [(Normativa Ambiental)|http://www.conama.cl/portal/1301/article-34637.html]
* National Congress [(Congreso Nacional)|http://www.congreso.cl/]
* National Institute of Standardization [(Instituto Nacional de Normalizacion)|http://www3.inn.cl/portada/index.php]

\\

h1. About Chile


----
* [Background Notes: Chile|http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/bgn/1981.htm] (US Department of State)
* [Consular Information Sheet: Chile|http://travel.state.gov/travel/cis_pa_tw/cis/cis_1088.html] (US Department of State)
* [Country Study: Chile|http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/cltoc.html] (US Library of Congress)
* [Culture Crossing: Chile|http://www.culturecrossing.net/basics_business_student.php?id=42] (Cultural Etiquette for Interacting with People from Chile)
* National Tourism Service [(Servicio Nacional de Turismo-Sernatur)|http://www.sernatur.cl/]
* Newspapers
** [Diario Financiero|http://www.diariofinanciero.cl/]
** [El Mercurio|http://www.emol.com/]
** [Estrategia|http://www.estrategia.cl/]
** [La Nacion|http://www.lanacion.cl/]
** [La Tercera|http://www.latercera.cl/]
* [Portals to the World: Chile|http://www.loc.gov/rr/international/hispanic/chile/chile.html] (US Library of Congress)
* [The World Fact Book: Chile|https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/ci.html] (US Central Intelligence Agency)
* [World Health Organization & Environmental Burden of Disease Country Profile|http://www.who.int/quantifying_ehimpacts/national/countryprofile/chile.pdf] (PDF - 135 KB)

\\

h1. Multilateral Organization Contacts


----
* [Multilateral Organization Resource Contacts|http://www.toxipedia.org/wiki/display/wlt/Multilateral+Organization+Resource+Contacts]

\\

h1. Literature References from [TOXLINE|http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/factsheets/toxlinfs.html] (Chile)


----
* {div:class=new_window}[Search for Literature Related to Chile|http://toxnet.nlm.nih.gov/cgi-bin/sis/search/r?dbs+toxline:@mh+chile]
{div}
* {div:class=new_window}[Search for Literature by Authors in Chile|http://toxnet.nlm.nih.gov/cgi-bin/sis/search/r?dbs+toxline:@ad+chile]
{div}
\\
*Note: Overlap between these two sets of search results is likely.*

Publish this draft for everyone to see.

Permanently discard changes to this page.

This cannot be undone.

Contents

Attachments