The next frontier of environmental unknowns: substances of unknown or variable composition, complex reaction products, or biological materials (UVCBs)

A Lai, AM Clark, BI Escher, M Fernandez… - Environmental …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Substances of unknown or variable composition, complex reaction products, or biological
materials (UVCBs) are over 70 000 “complex” chemical mixtures produced and used at …

Improving the environmental risk assessment of substances of unknown or variable composition, complex reaction products, or biological materials

D Salvito, M Fernandez, K Jenner… - Environmental …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Substances of unknown or variable composition, complex reaction products, or biological
materials (UVCBs) pose unique risk assessment challenges to regulators and to product …

[HTML][HTML] A chemical–biological similarity-based grouping of complex substances as a prototype approach for evaluating chemical alternatives

FA Grimm, Y Iwata, O Sirenko, GA Chappell… - Green chemistry, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
Comparative assessment of potential human health impacts is a critical step in evaluating
both chemical alternatives and existing products on the market. Most alternatives …

Integrated framework for identifying toxic transformation products in complex environmental mixtures

L Chibwe, IA Titaley, E Hoh… - Environmental science & …, 2017 - ACS Publications
Complex environmental mixtures consist of hundreds to thousands of unknown and
unregulated organic compounds that may have toxicological relevance, including …

The ECOTOXicology knowledgebase: a curated database of ecologically relevant toxicity tests to support environmental research and risk assessment

JH Olker, CM Elonen, A Pilli, A Anderson… - Environmental …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The need for assembled existing and new toxicity data has accelerated as the amount of
chemicals introduced into commerce continues to grow and regulatory mandates require …

Metabolism, variability and risk assessment

J Dorne - Toxicology, 2010 - Elsevier
For non-genotoxic carcinogens,“thresholded toxicants”, Acceptable/Tolerable Daily Intakes
(ADI/TDI) represent a level of exposure “without appreciable health risk” when consumed …

Chemical and biological assessments of environmental mixtures: A review of current trends, advances, and future perspectives

YS Luo, Z Chen, NH Hsieh, TE Lin - Journal of Hazardous Materials, 2022 - Elsevier
Considering the chemical complexity and toxicity data gaps of environmental mixtures, most
studies evaluate the chemical risk individually. However, humans are usually exposed to a …

Identification and prioritization of environmental organic pollutants: from an analytical and toxicological perspective

T Ruan, P Li, H Wang, T Li, G Jiang - Chemical Reviews, 2023 - ACS Publications
Exposure to environmental organic pollutants has triggered significant ecological impacts
and adverse health outcomes, which have been received substantial and increasing …

[HTML][HTML] New challenges in environmental analytical chemistry: identification of toxic compounds in complex mixtures

MH Dévier, P Mazellier, S Aït-Aïssa… - Comptes Rendus Chimie, 2011 - Elsevier
Toxic effects evidenced in the environment are most often caused by mixtures of known and
unknown pollutants. One of the key challenges in environmental chemistry and …

Assessment of multi-chemical pollution in aquatic ecosystems using toxic units: compound prioritization, mixture characterization and relationships with biological …

A Ginebreda, M Kuzmanovic, H Guasch… - Science of the total …, 2014 - Elsevier
Chemical pollution is typically characterized by exposure to multiple rather than to single or
a limited number of compounds. Parent compounds, transformation products and other non …