| Title |
Complex chemical mixtures: Approaches for assessing adverse human health effects |
| ID_Doc |
64499 |
| Authors |
Mustafa, E; Valente, MJ; Vinggaard, AM |
| Title |
Complex chemical mixtures: Approaches for assessing adverse human health effects |
| Year |
2023 |
| Published |
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| DOI |
10.1016/j.cotox.2023.100404 |
| Abstract |
In this opinion, we provide a brief overview of three main ap-proaches for assessing effects of chemical mixtures on human health, such as experimental or theoretical component-based or whole mixture studies. We compare the purposes, pros, and cons of the approaches and highlight the recent advances within the field that focus on "real-life" exposures for risk-assessing chemical mixtures. Whole mixture studies combined with effect-directed analysis have been used mostly within ecotoxicology and less so within human toxicology, opening the potential for the determination of mixture drivers in human tissues. Concerning the implementation of mixture risk assessment in legislation, we discuss whether a data-driven factor, for example, a mixture driver factor for each chemical or chemical class could be useful when deriving the toxicologi-cally acceptable limit. |
| Author Keywords |
Chemical mixture; Health risk assessment; Toxicology; Component- based studies; Whole mixture studies; Real-life exposure |
| Index Keywords |
Index Keywords |
| Document Type |
Other |
| Open Access |
Open Access |
| Source |
Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI) |
| EID |
WOS:001013321400001 |
| WoS Category |
Toxicology |
| Research Area |
Toxicology |
| PDF |
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cotox.2023.100404
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