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 …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] A 10-step framework for use of read-across (RAX) in next generation risk assessment (NGRA) for cosmetics safety assessment

C Alexander-White, D Bury, M Cronin, M Dent… - Regulatory Toxicology …, 2022 - Elsevier
This paper presents a 10-step read-across (RAX) framework for use in cases where a
threshold of toxicological concern (TTC) approach to cosmetics safety assessment is not …

Cardiotoxicity hazard and risk characterization of toxcast chemicals using human induced pluripotent stem cell-derived cardiomyocytes from multiple donors

SD Burnett, AD Blanchette, WA Chiu… - Chemical research in …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Heart disease remains a significant human health burden worldwide with a significant
fraction of morbidity attributable to environmental exposures. However, the extent to which …

A RISK-BASED PRIORITIZATION OF PFAS USING PHENOTYPIC AND TRANSCRIPTOMIC DATA FROM HUMAN INDUCED PLURIPOTENT STEM CELL-DERIVED …

HHD Tsai, LC Ford, Z Chen, AN Dickey, FA Wright… - Altex, 2024 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) are chemicals with important applications; they
are persistent in the environment and may pose human health hazards. Regulatory …

[HTML][HTML] Grouping of UVCB substances with dose-response transcriptomics data from human cell-based assays

JS House, FA Grimm, WD Klaren, A Dalzell, S Kuchi… - Altex, 2022 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The application of in vitro biological assays as new approach methodologies (NAMs) to
support grouping of UVCB (unknown or variable composition, complex reaction products …

Characterizing PFAS hazards and risks: a human population-based in vitro cardiotoxicity assessment strategy

LC Ford, HC Lin, YH Zhou, FA Wright, VK Gombar… - Human Genomics, 2024 - Springer
Per-and poly-fluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) are emerging contaminants of concern because
of their wide use, persistence, and potential to be hazardous to both humans and the …

Update of the risk assessment of mineral oil hydrocarbons in food

EFSA Panel on Contaminants in the Food Chain … - EFSA …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Mineral oil hydrocarbons (MOH) are composed of saturated hydrocarbons (MOSH) and
aromatic hydrocarbons (MOAH). Due to the complexity of the MOH composition, their …

Combined exposures and mixtures research: an enduring NIEHS priority

DJ Carlin, CV Rider - Environmental Health Perspectives, 2024 - ehp.niehs.nih.gov
Background: The National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) continues to
prioritize research to better understand the health effects resulting from exposure to mixtures …

ToxPi* GIS Toolkit: creating, viewing, and sharing integrative visualizations for geospatial data using ArcGIS

J Fleming, SW Marvel, S Supak… - Journal of Exposure …, 2022 - nature.com
Background Presenting a comprehensive picture of geographic data comprising multiple
factors is an inherently integrative undertaking. Visualizing such data in an interactive form is …