An introduction to Criteria for Reporting and Evaluating Exposure Datasets (CREED) for use in environmental assessments

IF 3 4区 环境科学与生态学 Q2 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES
Graham Merrington, Lisa H. Nowell, Charles Peck
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Risks posed by environmental exposure to chemicals are routinely assessed to inform activities ranging from environmental status reporting to authorization and registration of chemicals for commercial uses. Environmental risk assessment generally relies on two key values generated from exposure data and ecotoxicity data. Data sets of measured concentrations of chemicals in environmental matrices, referred to here as exposure data, are widely used to support environmental risk management, decision-making, and reporting, such as for chemical screening, ecological or human health risk assessments, and establishment of guidelines. Practitioners have developed schemes to determine the suitability of ecotoxicity data for specific purposes, focused on evaluating reliability and relevance, but analogous schemes are not available for exposure data. Moreover, regulatory guidance arguably provides less resolution on reporting and evaluating exposure data sets compared to ecotoxicity data. The evaluation of exposure data sets is subject to limitations from variable or unreported data quality objectives and/or from differences in expert judgments, potentially introducing bias and leading to decisions based on flawed and/or inconsistent information. Exposure data sets should be evaluated for reliability and relevance prior to use in environmental assessments. This paper is the first of a four-paper series detailing the outcomes of a Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry technical workshop that has developed Criteria for Reporting and Evaluating Exposure Datasets (CREED). The workshop participants developed practical, systematic criteria for consistent and transparent evaluation of the reliability (quality) and relevance (fitness for purpose) of exposure data. This guidance should apply to many different (unspecified) purposes of assessment. CREED can be used to evaluate existing data sets, but can also inform data generators interested in improving their data collection and reporting to maximize data utility to other users. This first paper details existing frameworks for the evaluation of exposure data sets and demonstrates the need for CREED, drawing from different regulatory assessments, and describes the technical workshop. Integr Environ Assess Manag 2024;20:975–980. © 2024 SETAC

介绍用于环境评估的暴露数据集报告和评估标准 (CREED)。
对化学品环境暴露所造成的风险进行例行评估,为从环境状况报告到化学品商业用途的授权和注册等活动提供信息。环境风险评估通常依赖于由暴露数据和生态毒性数据产生的两个关键值。环境基质中化学品浓度的测量数据集(此处称为暴露数据)被广泛用于支持环境风险管理、决策和报告,如化学品筛选、生态或人类健康风险评估以及制定准则。从业人员已经制定了确定生态毒性数据是否适用于特定目的的方案,重点是评估可靠性和相关性,但暴露数据却没有类似的方案。此外,与生态毒性数据相比,监管指南在报告和评估暴露数据集方面提供的决议较少。暴露数据集的评估会受到数据质量目标不一或未报告数据质量目标和/或专家判断差异的限制,可能会产生偏差,导致根据有缺陷和/或不一致的信息做出决策。在环境评估中使用暴露数据集之前,应对其可靠性和相关性进行评估。本文是四篇系列论文中的第一篇,详细介绍了环境毒理学与化学学会技术研讨会的成果,该研讨会制定了《暴露数据集报告与评估标准》(CREED)。研讨会与会者制定了实用、系统的标准,用于对暴露数据的可靠性(质量)和相关性(适用性)进行一致、透明的评估。该指南应适用于多种不同(未指定)的评估目的。CREED 可用于评估现有数据集,也可为有意改进数据收集和报告的数据生成者提供信息,以最大限度地提高数据对其他用户的实用性。第一篇论文详细介绍了用于评估暴露数据集的现有框架,从不同的监管评估中证明了 CREED 的必要性,并介绍了技术研讨会的情况。Integr Environ Assess Manag 2024;00:1-6.© 2024 SETAC.
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Integrated Environmental Assessment and Management
Integrated Environmental Assessment and Management ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCESTOXICOLOGY&nbs-TOXICOLOGY
CiteScore
5.90
自引率
6.50%
发文量
156
期刊介绍: Integrated Environmental Assessment and Management (IEAM) publishes the science underpinning environmental decision making and problem solving. Papers submitted to IEAM must link science and technical innovations to vexing regional or global environmental issues in one or more of the following core areas: Science-informed regulation, policy, and decision making Health and ecological risk and impact assessment Restoration and management of damaged ecosystems Sustaining ecosystems Managing large-scale environmental change Papers published in these broad fields of study are connected by an array of interdisciplinary engineering, management, and scientific themes, which collectively reflect the interconnectedness of the scientific, social, and environmental challenges facing our modern global society: Methods for environmental quality assessment; forecasting across a number of ecosystem uses and challenges (systems-based, cost-benefit, ecosystem services, etc.); measuring or predicting ecosystem change and adaptation Approaches that connect policy and management tools; harmonize national and international environmental regulation; merge human well-being with ecological management; develop and sustain the function of ecosystems; conceptualize, model and apply concepts of spatial and regional sustainability Assessment and management frameworks that incorporate conservation, life cycle, restoration, and sustainability; considerations for climate-induced adaptation, change and consequences, and vulnerability Environmental management applications using risk-based approaches; considerations for protecting and fostering biodiversity, as well as enhancement or protection of ecosystem services and resiliency.
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