Pathway-Related Factors: The Potential for Human Data to Improve the Scientific Basis of Risk Assessment

The default uncertainty factors used for risk assessment are applied either to allow for different aspects of extrapolation of the dose-response curve or to allow for database deficiencies. Replacement of toxicokinetic or toxicodynamics defaults by chemical-specific data allows the calculation of a chemical-specific “data-derived factor”, which is the product of chemical-specific values and default uncertainty factors. Such chemical-specific composite values will improve the scientific basis of the risk assessment of that chemical, but the necessary chemical-specific data are rarely available. Categorical defaults related to pathways of elimination and mechanisms of toxicity could be used when the overall fate or mechanism is known, but there are no chemical-specific data sufficient to allow replacement of the default, and the development of an overall data-derived factor. The development of pathway-related categorical defaults is being undertaken using data on selected probe substrates for which adequate data are available. The concept and difficulties of this approach are illustrated using data for CYP1A2.

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