Statement on advancing the assessment of chemical mixtures and their risks for human health and the environment.

The number of anthropogenic chemicals, manufactured, by-products, metabolites and abiotically formed transformation products, counts to hundreds of thousands, at present. Thus, humans and wildlife are exposed to complex mixtures, never one chemical at a time and rarely with only one dominating effect. Hence there is an urgent need to develop strategies on how exposure to multiple hazardous chemicals and the combination of their effects can be assessed. A workshop, "Advancing the Assessment of Chemical Mixtures and their Risks for Human Health and the Environment" was organized in May 2018 together with Joint Research Center in Ispra, EU-funded research projects and Commission Services and relevant EU agencies. This forum for researchers and policy-makers was created to discuss and identify gaps in risk assessment and governance of chemical mixtures as well as to discuss state of the art science and future research needs. Based on the presentations and discussions at this workshop we want to bring forward the following Key Messages. Copyright © 2019 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd.. All rights reserved.

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Elina Drakvik, Rolf Altenburger, Yasunobu Aoki, Thomas Backhaus, Tina Bahadori, Robert Barouki, Werner Brack, Mark T D Cronin, Barbara Demeneix, Susanne Hougaard Bennekou, Jacob van Klaveren, Carsten Kneuer, Marike Kolossa-Gehring, Erik Lebret, Leo Posthuma, Lena Reiber, Cynthia Rider, Joëlle Rüegg, Giuseppe Testa, Bart van der Burg, Hilko van der Voet, A Michael Warhurst, Bob van de Water, Kunihiko Yamazaki, Mattias Öberg, Åke Bergman. Statement on advancing the assessment of chemical mixtures and their risks for human health and the environment. Environment international. 2020 Jan;134:105267

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