People, animals and the environment can be exposed to multiple chemicals (“chemical mixtures”) from a variety of sources such as the environment, food and consumer products. Understanding how combined chemicals behave is complex and the number of potential combinations is wide.

The proposed guidance document and related statement provide a practical framework to help assess the combined toxicities of chemicals in different areas of scientific assessments relevant to EFSA, such as pesticides, contaminants and food additives. EFSA used feedback from a previous public consultation held in 2016 to define the scope of this proposed framework.

• Public consultation: Draft guidance on harmonised methodologies for human health, animal health and ecological risk assessment of combined exposure to multiple chemicals
• Public consultation: Draft statement on genotoxicity assessment of chemical mixtures

EFSA will hold a technical hearing on the genotoxicity assessment of chemical mixtures on 27 September in Brussels, Belgium. Registration opens shortly.

For more about EFSA's work on chemical mixtures: http://www.efsa.europa.eu/en/topics/topic/chemical-mixtures

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