Contextualizing Toxicology—Alligning Data and the Real World in Chemical Risk Assessment and Regulation
A special issue of Toxics (ISSN 2305-6304). This special issue belongs to the section "Novel Methods in Toxicology Research".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 November 2024 | Viewed by 31
Special Issue Editors
Interests: chemical and environmental risk assessment/management; toxicology; food safety assessment; precautionary thinking
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
In this Special Issue, we want to have a close look at the field of toxicology and its technical contributions to the managerial and political discourses. Toxicology is crucial to good regulatory practices. More precisely, the scientific habitat of toxicology in terms of empirical and rational work as well as its collection of good and transparent toxicological data are incredibly valuable to policy. Indeed, the understanding/management of and the reduction in human and environmental exposure to potentially toxic chemicals and materials are the pivots on which the science–policy interface hinges.
Conversely, this also requires the contextualisation of toxicology within the world of daily chemical exposures, i.e., assessing and managing risks requires understanding overall toxic exposures while bearing in mind the question of “How safe is safe enough?”, at least from toxicological and policy points of view. This is the inherent trade-off rationale at work here.
Contributions on specific toxicological subjects—PFAS and other halogenated hydrocarbons, glyphosate, food-contact chemistry/toxicology (e.g., melamine/formaldehyde)—but also methodological/analytical topics and carcinogenic hazard and risk assessment strategies are welcome, alongside the interconnection between the fields of toxicology and regulation.
Dr. Jaap C. Hanekamp
Prof. Dr. Ira Helsloot
Guest Editors
Manuscript Submission Information
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Keywords
- risk assessment
- risk management
- chemical policies
- tox sciences
- tox methodolgies
- data transparency
- safety analyses
