Public health guidance values for chemical mixtures: current practice and future directions

Regulatory Toxicology and Pharmacology : RTP
Hana R PohlC H Chou

Abstract

Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) utilizes chemical-specific minimal risk levels (MRLs) to assist in evaluating public health risks associated with exposure to hazardous substances. The MRLs are derived based on the data compiled from current worldwide literature searches and presented in ATSDR's toxicological profiles. These documents profile not only individual chemicals, but also groups of chemically related compounds and chemical mixtures. ATSDR took several approaches when developing MRLs for chemical mixtures. In some instances, toxicity equivalency factors were used to estimate the toxicity of the whole mixture; in other instances, the most toxic chemical was assumed to drive the health assessment for the whole mixture. Another approach was to treat the mixture as one entity and develop a health guidance value for the whole mixture. In yet another approach, each chemical of the mixture was evaluated separately and several health guidance values were developed. In the future, ATSDR will evaluate priority chemical mixtures found at hazardous waste sites. A weight-of-evidence approach, physiologically based pharmacokinetic modeling and bench-mark dose modeling, and quantitative structure-activity rela...Continue Reading

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