Dear Readers,this special issue of our journal, Military Medical Science Letters, is aimed at the summary of meeting abstracts presented at the 18^th Interdisciplinary Czech-Slovak Toxicology Conference - TOXCON 2013. This meeting was held in Hradec Kralove, Czech Republic, from 19^th to 21^st June 2013. This particular meeting was organized by Czech Society for Experimental and Clinical Pharmacology and Toxicology and Slovak Toxicology Society with the support of the University hospital Hradec Kralove, Faculty of Medicine, Charles University Hradec Kralove and Faculty of Military Health Sciences, University of Defence Hradec Kralove.It brought together academic, government and third sector organisations to debate key issues in toxicology. This summary presents all oral and poster contributions which were presented within this meeting. We hope that these abstracts will be useful to those who are working in this area of research.Kamil Kuca