Editorial of the special issue 'Toxins: Mr Hyde or Dr Jekyll?'

International audience; The 27th Annual Meeting of the French Society of Toxinology (SFET, http://sfet.asso.fr/international (accessed since 1 September 2022)) was held on 9–10 December 2021 as a virtual meeting (e-RT27). The central theme selected for this meeting, “Toxins: Mr Hyde or Dr Jekyll?”, gave rise to three thematic sessions: the first on plant toxins, algal toxins and mycotoxins; the second on animal toxins; and the third on bacterial toxins. All sessions were aimed at emphasizing the latest findings on this topic. Apart from this central theme, a “miscellaneous” session was dedicated to recent results obtained in toxinology. Ten speakers from seven countries (Australia, Brazil, Burkina Faso, France, Germany, The Netherlands and the United States of America) were invited as international experts to present their work, and other researchers and students presented theirs through 15 shorter lectures and 20 posters. Of the ca. 80 participants who registered, 38% were foreigners, a value highlighting the international attractiveness of the SFET meeting.