Application of in silico modelling to estimate toxicity of migrating substances from food packaging

Food and Chemical Toxicology

Volumn 71, Issue , 2014, Pages 136-141

  Price, Nicholas ^a   Chaudhry, Qasim ^a  

^a FOOD AND ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH AGENCY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

(Q)SAR; Computational toxicology; In silico methods; Packaging migrants; Read across; Weight of evidence

Indexed keywords

TOXIC SUBSTANCE; ALCOHOL; ALDEHYDE; ALKANE; ALKENE; AMIDE; CARBOXYLIC ACID; CHEMICAL COMPOUND; ESTER DERIVATIVE; KETONE; ORGANOPHOSPHATE; PHENOL DERIVATIVE; PIPERIDINE DERIVATIVE; SULFONAMIDE;

ARTICLE; CARCINOGENICITY; COMPUTER MODEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FOOD PACKAGING; MUTAGENICITY; PACKAGING MATERIAL; PREDICTION; SAFETY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; THEORETICAL MODEL; TOXICITY TESTING; COMPUTER PREDICTION; COMPUTER PROGRAM; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCREENING;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FOOD PACKAGING; MODELS, THEORETICAL; TOXICITY TESTS;

EID: 84903904966     PISSN: 02786915     EISSN: 18736351     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fct.2014.05.022     Document Type: Article

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