Assessing the human health risks of per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances: a need for greater focus on their interactions as mixtures

AF Ojo, C Peng, JC Ng - Journal of Hazardous Materials, 2021 - Elsevier
Humans are exposed to complex mixtures of per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS).
However, human health risk assessment of PFAS currently relies on animal toxicity data …

Regulatory assessment and risk management of chemical mixtures: challenges and ways forward

SK Bopp, A Kienzler, AN Richarz… - Critical Reviews in …, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
This paper summarizes current challenges, the potential use of novel scientific
methodologies, and ways forward in the risk assessment and risk management of mixtures …

[HTML][HTML] Statement on advancing the assessment of chemical mixtures and their risks for human health and the environment

E Drakvik, R Altenburger, Y Aoki, T Backhaus… - Environment …, 2020 - Elsevier
The number of anthropogenic chemicals, manufactured, by-products, metabolites and
abiotically formed transformation products, counts to hundreds of thousands, at present …

[HTML][HTML] Current EU research activities on combined exposure to multiple chemicals

SK Bopp, R Barouki, W Brack, S Dalla Costa… - Environment …, 2018 - Elsevier
Humans and wildlife are exposed to an intractably large number of different combinations of
chemicals via food, water, air, consumer products, and other media and sources. This raises …

[HTML][HTML] Regulatory assessment of chemical mixtures: requirements, current approaches and future perspectives

A Kienzler, SK Bopp, S van der Linden… - Regulatory Toxicology …, 2016 - Elsevier
This paper reviews regulatory requirements and recent case studies to illustrate how the risk
assessment (RA) of chemical mixtures is conducted, considering both the effects on human …

[HTML][HTML] Towards a systematic use of effect biomarkers in population and occupational biomonitoring

MZ Jeddi, NB Hopf, S Viegas, AB Price, A Paini… - Environment …, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract Effect biomarkers can be used to elucidate relationships between exposure to
environmental chemicals and their mixtures with associated health outcomes, but they are …

A review of cumulative risk assessment of multiple pesticide residues in food: Current status, approaches and future perspectives

M Yang, Y Wang, G Yang, Y Wang, F Liu… - Trends in Food Science & …, 2024 - Elsevier
Background The widespread application of pesticides in agricultural production often leads
to the occurrence of multiple pesticide residues in food, which have the potential to …

Application of cross-validation strategies to avoid overestimation of performance of 2D-QSAR models for the prediction of aquatic toxicity of chemical mixtures

M Chatterjee, K Roy - SAR and QSAR in Environmental Research, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
The quantitative structure–activity relationship (QSAR) modelling of mixtures is not as simple
as that for individual chemicals, and it needs additional care to avoid overestimation of the …

Relative potency of fifteen pyrrolizidine alkaloids to induce DNA damage as measured by micronucleus induction in HepaRG human liver cells

A Allemang, C Mahony, C Lester, S Pfuhler - Food and chemical toxicology, 2018 - Elsevier
Abstract Plant-based 1, 2-unsaturated Pyrrolizidine Alkaloids (PAs) can be found as
contaminants in foods like teas, herbs and honey. PAs are responsible for liver genotoxicity …

Priorities and challenges in methodology for human health risk assessment from combined exposure to multiple chemicals

D Nikolopoulou, E Ntzani, K Kyriakopoulou… - Toxics, 2023 - mdpi.com
This paper reviews key elements in the assessment of human health effects from combined
exposure to multiple chemicals taking into consideration current knowledge and challenges …