Corinne Sprong, Jan Dirk Te Biesebeek, Mousumi Chatterjee, Gerrit Wolterink, Annick van den Brand, Urska Blaznik, Despo Christodoulou, Amélie Crépet, Bodil Hamborg Jensen, Darja Sokolić, Elke Rauscher-Gabernig, Jiri Ruprich, Andreas Kortenkamp, Jacob van Klaveren
We performed a mixture risk assessment (MRA) case study of dietary exposure to the food contaminants lead, methylmercury, inorganic arsenic (iAs), fluoride, non-dioxin-like polychlorinated biphenyls (NDL-PCBs) and polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs), all substances associated with declines in cognitive abilities measured as IQ loss. Most of these chemicals are frequently measured in human biomonitoring studies. A component-based, personalised modified reference point index (mRPI) approach, in which we expressed the exposures and potencies of our chosen substances as lead equivalent values, was applied to perform a MRA for dietary exposures...
May 5, 2023: International Journal of Hygiene and Environmental Health