A flow scheme for cumulative assessment of pesticides for adverse liver effects.

Regul Toxicol Pharmacol

Department of Toxicology, University of Würzburg, Versbacher Strasse 9, 97078, Würzburg, Germany. Electronic address:

Published: October 2020

The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) is developing approaches to cumulative risk assessment by assigning pesticides to cumulative assessment groups (CAGs). For assignment to CAGs, EFSA relies on common toxic effects (CTEs) on the target system. The developed flow scheme for assignment to liver CAGs sequentially assesses the consistency of the CTE, its adversity, its potential to be secondary to other toxicities, its human relevance, and the relation of the NOAEL for the CTE to the overall NOAEL. If the responses to all questions are "yes", allocation to a CAG is supported; "no" stops the process.

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