The advisory subgroup in toxicology of the european medical research councils.

The European Medical Research Councils set up an Advisory Group in Toxicology which met from 1975 to 1988. Since encouragement of cross discipline research is still difficult, a resumé is presented of the procedures developed to encourage interdisciplinary research in toxicology in Europe. A programme of grants in toxicology for collaborative research between European countries was begun in 1981 under the auspices of the European Science Foundation. Resulting from the final meeting of AST in Milan, the need for the development of links between epidemiology and molecular aspects of toxicology and for new approaches in eco-toxicology are briefly discussed.