Tracking complex mixtures of chemicals in our changing environment
By B. Escher, H. Stapleton, Emma L. Schymanski. Science, 2020
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Chemicals have improved our quality of life, but the resulting environmental pollution has the potential to cause detrimental effects on humans and the environment. People and biota are chronically exposed to thousands of chemicals from various environmental sources through multiple pathways. Environmental chemists and toxicologists have moved beyond detecting and quantifying single chemicals to characterizing complex mixtures of chemicals in indoor and outdoor environments and biological matrices. We highlight analytical and bioanalytical approaches to isolating, characterizing, and tracking groups of chemicals of concern in complex matrices. Techniques that combine chemical analysis and bioassays have the potential to facilitate the identification of mixtures of chemicals that pose a combined risk.
Subfields: Biomedical Engineering, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis
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- Fish for Health: Improved Nutritional Quality of Cultured Fish for Human Consumption (2020, background): “…are being caught or fished are also suffering from an ever-increasing torrent of environmental pollutants from wastewater treatment plants, urban and agricultural runoff, and from the air (Escher et al. 2020; Johnson et al. 2020; Schmid et al. 2007; Weber and Goerke 2003; Xanthos and Walker 2017).”
- Emerging contaminants: A One Health perspective (2024, unknown): “7 Moreover,someECs,suchasplasticsandmicroplastics,canserveascarriersfor other contaminants, facilitating their accumulation in aquatic organisms and potential entry into the food chain.”