International Poisonous Plants Checklist : an Evidence-based ...

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D. Jesse Wagstaff has worked many years in food safety and development of poisonous plant bibliographic databases. His
interest started when he worked with Wayne Binns and Lynn James at the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Poisonous Plant
Laboratory before veterinary training at Cornell University, where John Kingsbury taught poisonous plants. After earning a
Ph.D., Wagstaff taught toxicology at the University of Missouri. He researched safety of animal feeds and drugs and evaluated
epidemiologic and safety aspects of human foods at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Although he is
in emeritus status, the search for additional documents goes on. His collection of poisonous plant documents is the world's
largest.
Plant toxicology data has been obtained from interagency projects of the FDA, the U.S. National Library of Medicine
(NLM), and Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Further development has been funded by FDA, NLM, and the U.S. National
Institutes of Health. Databases were developed with Kenneth Lampe of the American Medical Association. Additional
material has come from personal searches at the Library of Congress, the U.S. National Agricultural Library, the Smithsonian
Institution Herbarium, and libraries at Arizona State University, Brigham Young University, Colorado State University,
Cornell University, Montana State University, University of California at Davis, University of Nevada at Reno, University of
Utah, University of Washington, and Utah State University. Extensive use has been made of interlibrary loans, online dabases
such as Pubmed and Agricola, and library catalogs.