MUNCKE, Jane, Anna-Maria ANDERSSON, Thomas BACKHAUS, Scott M. BELCHER, Justin M. BOUCHER, Bethanie Carney ALMROTH, Terrence J. COLLINS, Birgit GEUEKE, Ksenia J. GROH, Jerrold J. HEINDEL, Frank A. VON HIPPEL, Juliette LEGLER, Maricel V. MAFFINI, V. Martin OLWENN, John Peterson MYERS, Angel NADAL, Cristina NERIN, Ana M. SOTO, Leonardo TRASANDE, Laura N. VANDENBERG, Martin WAGNER, Lisa ZIMMERMANN, R. Thomas ZOELLER and Martin SCHERINGER. A vision for safer food contact materials: Public health concerns as drivers for improved testing. Environment International. OXFORD (ENGLAND): Pergamon Press, 2023, vol. 180, October 2023, p. 1-18. ISSN 0160-4120. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.envint.2023.108161.
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Original name A vision for safer food contact materials: Public health concerns as drivers for improved testing
Authors MUNCKE, Jane, Anna-Maria ANDERSSON, Thomas BACKHAUS, Scott M. BELCHER, Justin M. BOUCHER, Bethanie Carney ALMROTH, Terrence J. COLLINS, Birgit GEUEKE, Ksenia J. GROH, Jerrold J. HEINDEL, Frank A. VON HIPPEL, Juliette LEGLER, Maricel V. MAFFINI, V. Martin OLWENN, John Peterson MYERS, Angel NADAL, Cristina NERIN, Ana M. SOTO, Leonardo TRASANDE, Laura N. VANDENBERG, Martin WAGNER, Lisa ZIMMERMANN, R. Thomas ZOELLER and Martin SCHERINGER (756 Switzerland, guarantor, belonging to the institution).
Edition Environment International, OXFORD (ENGLAND), Pergamon Press, 2023, 0160-4120.
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Original language English
Type of outcome Article in a journal
Field of Study 10511 Environmental sciences
Country of publisher United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Confidentiality degree is not subject to a state or trade secret
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Impact factor Impact factor: 11.800 in 2022
RIV identification code RIV/00216224:14310/23:00132400
Organization unit Faculty of Science
Doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.envint.2023.108161
UT WoS 001098719300001
Keywords in English Food packaging; Hazard assessment; Chronic disease; Chemical safety
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Tags International impact, Reviewed
Changed by Changed by: Mgr. Michaela Hylsová, Ph.D., učo 211937. Changed: 4/12/2023 09:22.
Abstract
Food contact materials (FCMs) and food contact articles are ubiquitous in today's globalized food system. Chemicals migrate from FCMs into foodstuffs, so called food contact chemicals (FCCs), but current regulatory requirements do not sufficiently protect public health from hazardous FCCs because only individual substances used to make FCMs are tested and mostly only for genotoxicity while endocrine disruption and other hazard properties are disregarded. Indeed, FCMs are a known source of a wide range of hazardous chemicals, and they likely contribute to highly prevalent non-communicable diseases. FCMs can also include non-intentionally added substances (NIAS), which often are unknown and therefore not subject to risk assessment. To address these important shortcomings, we outline how the safety of FCMs may be improved by (1) testing the overall migrate, including (unknown) NIAS, of finished food contact articles, and (2) expanding toxicological testing beyond genotoxicity to multiple endpoints associated with non-communicable diseases relevant to human health. Toidentify mechanistic endpoints for testing, we group chronic health outcomes associated with chemical exposure into Six Clusters of Disease (SCOD) and we propose that finished food contact articles should be tested for their impacts on these SCOD. Research should focus on developing robust, relevant, and sensitive in-vitro assays based on mechanistic information linked to the SCOD, e.g., through Adverse Outcome Pathways (AOPs) or Key Characteristics of Toxicants. Implementing this vision will improve prevention of chronic diseases that are associated with hazardous chemical exposures, including from FCMs.
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EF15_003/0000469, research and development projectName: Cetocoen Plus
EF17_043/0009632, research and development projectName: CETOCOEN Excellence
LM2018121, research and development projectName: Výzkumná infrastruktura RECETOX (Acronym: RECETOX RI)
Investor: Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the CR, RECETOX RI
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