Should the scope of human mixture risk assessment span legislative/regulatory silos for chemicals?

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 543, Issue , 2016, Pages 757-764

  Evans, Richard M ^a   Martin, Olwenn V ^a   Faust, Michael ^b   Kortenkamp, Andreas ^a  

^a BRUNEL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b Faust and Backhaus Environmental Consulting   (Germany)

Author keywords

Chemical toxicity; Chemicals regulation; Human health; Mixture risk assessment; Mixture toxicity; Risk assessment

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL CONTAMINATION; CHEMICALS; CONSUMER PRODUCTS; HEALTH RISKS; INDICATORS (CHEMICAL); LAWS AND LEGISLATION; MIXTURES; POTABLE WATER; TOXICITY;

ASSESSMENT PRACTICES; CHEMICAL RISK ASSESSMENT; CHEMICAL TOXICITY; CHEMICALS REGULATION; HUMAN HEALTH; MIXTURE TOXICITY; MIXTURE TOXICOLOGIES; RISK TO HUMAN HEALTH;

RISK ASSESSMENT;

COSMETIC; DIOXIN; DRUG; ENVIRONMENTAL CHEMICAL; FURAN DERIVATIVE; INDUSTRIAL CHEMICAL; METAL; PESTICIDE; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUND; DRUG MIXTURE; POLLUTANT;

BIOLOGICAL MONITORING; CONSUMER; DEVELOPMENTAL TOXICITY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; EUROPEAN UNION; FOOD CONTAMINATION; FOOD SAFETY; GOVERNMENT REGULATION; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; HEALTH HAZARD; HUMAN; MAXIMUM ALLOWABLE CONCENTRATION; MIXTURE RISK ASSESSMENT; NEUROTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; NOTE; PERSISTENT ORGANIC POLLUTANT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; DRUG MIXTURE; ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING; LEGISLATION AND JURISPRUDENCE; POLLUTANT; POLLUTION; STANDARDS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TOXICITY;

COMPLEX MIXTURES; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION; EUROPEAN UNION; HUMANS; RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 84960867203     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2015.10.162     Document Type: Note

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