Chemical Mixtures: An Unsolvable Riddle?

Human and Ecological Risk Assessment | August 1, 2004| | Copyright

ABSTRACT

It is difficult to overstate the complexity of assessing risks from chemical mixtures. For every valid reason to assess risks from mixtures, there appears an equally valid question as to whether it is possible to do so in a scientifically rigorous and relevant manner. Because so few data exist for mixtures, current mixture assessment methods must rely on untested assumptions and simplifications. That the accuracy of risk estimates improve with the number of chemicals assessed together as mixtures is a valid assumption only if assessment methods for mixtures are better than those ...

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