Milestones in the History of Society Toxicology of India Part 2: Dr PK Gupta Founder, STOX

Milestones in the History of Society Toxicology of India Part 2: Dr PK Gupta Founder, STOX
Past Memories

The Society of Toxicology, India (STOX) being founder member of IUTOX, organized the 2nd Congress of Toxicology in Developing Countries"(CTDCs) in 1991 in Ashoka Hotel, New Delhi. Dr PK Gupta founder of the STOX is seen with Honorable Shri Kamal Nath,Union Minister of Environment and Forestry, Dr PK Ray Organizing Secretary of the Conference and and Dr PK Seth. Almost 700 delegates from India and abroad attended the meeting.

(i)  "Congress of Toxicology in Developing Countries"(CTDCs) were integrated as an IUTOX activity. The first CTDC was held in Argentina in 1987 as an independent initiative and has been held once in every four years since then: India (1991), Egypt (1995), Turkey(1999), China(2003) and Crotia (2006). It was my privilege to be the chairman of the committee to organize a symposium in Crotia and delivered invited lecture related to Biopesticides. Since then CTDC is being organized regularly after every three years in various countries as an IUTOX activity, in accordance with the major aims of the CTDCs, which are,

1.      promoting toxicology in developing countries.
2.      providing a platform where the toxicological issues and problems that mainly concern the developing countries are addressed.
3.      promoting cooperation between scientists from developed and developing countries to work on the specific toxicological problems of the developing world.
The congress is one of memorable one and broad India on the world map.