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Wolf DC, Aggarwal M, Battalora M, Blacker A, Catalano SI, Cazarin K, Lautenschalaeger D, Pais MC, Rodríguez M, Rupprecht K, Serex TL, Mehta J. Implementing a globally harmonized risk assessment-based approach for regulatory decision-making of crop protection products. Pest Manag Sci 2020; 76:3311-3315. [PMID: 32077588 DOI: 10.1002/ps.5793] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/18/2019] [Revised: 12/20/2019] [Accepted: 02/20/2020] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
Abstract
A global, harmonized evaluation system for crop protection chemicals based on exposure and risk will improve the ability to inform risk management decisions and better support innovation. This would be achieved through harmonized risk assessment-based regulatory decision-making realized through the application of the best available science, via integration of new methods and traditional data to create tailored exposure-driven risk assessments. A requirement to achieve success is a structure that encourages direct communication between the regulatory community and the regulated industry, which would enable a more rapid incorporation of new technologies and advancing science. An approach that emulates the International Conference of Harmonization (ICH) for pharmaceuticals would bring together regulatory authorities and the regulated industry along with relevant experts from academia and Non-Governmental Organizations to discuss scientific and technical advances and their implementation. These discussions would also encourage the elimination of outmoded practices that no longer serve a purpose resulting in more uniform testing requirements and best practices for data evaluation to support safe use and scientifically defensible human health and environmental risk assessments. New and developing technologies offer exciting opportunities to improve the current toxicity testing paradigms to provide better solutions and diminish animal testing. Implementation of a harmonized approach will increase the speed, efficiency and accuracy of regulatory decision-making for human health and environmental protection while increasing the efficiency of providing safe and effective innovative products to the agriculture community. © 2020 Society of Chemical Industry.
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- Bayer Crop Science, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, USA
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- Bayer Crop Science, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, USA
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Li AA, Makris SL, Marty MS, Strauss V, Gilbert ME, Blacker A, Zorrilla LM, Coder PS, Hannas B, Lordi S, Schneider S. Practical considerations for developmental thyroid toxicity assessments: What's working, what's not, and how can we do better? Regul Toxicol Pharmacol 2019; 106:111-136. [PMID: 31018155 DOI: 10.1016/j.yrtph.2019.04.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/05/2018] [Revised: 04/11/2019] [Accepted: 04/14/2019] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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Thyroid hormones (THs; T3 and T4) play a role in development of cardiovascular, reproductive, immune and nervous systems. Thus, interpretation of TH changes from rodent studies (during pregnancy, in fetuses, neonates, and adults) is critical in hazard characterization and risk assessment. A roundtable session at the 2017 Society of Toxicology (SOT) meeting brought together academic, industry and government scientists to share knowledge and different perspectives on technical and data interpretation issues. Data from a limited group of laboratories were compiled for technical discussions on TH measurements, including good practices for reliable serum TH data. Inter-laboratory historical control data, derived from immunoassays or mass spectrometry methods, revealed: 1) assay sensitivities vary within and across methodologies; 2) TH variability is similar across animal ages; 3) laboratories generally achieve sufficiently sensitive TH quantitation levels, although issues remain for lower levels of serum TH and TSH in fetuses and postnatal day 4 pups; thus, assay sensitivity is critical at these life stages. Best practices require detailed validation of rat serum TH measurements across ages to establish assay sensitivity and precision, and identify potential matrix effects. Finally, issues related to data interpretation for biological understanding and risk assessment were discussed, but their resolution remains elusive.
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- Abby A Li
- Exponent Inc., 1010 14th Street, San Francisco, CA, 94114, USA.
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- US Environmental Protection Agency Office of Research and Development, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave NW 8623R, Washington, DC, 20460, USA.
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- The Dow Chemical Company, Toxicology & Environmental Research and Consulting, 1803 Building, Midland, MI, 48674, USA.
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- BASF SE, Experimental Toxicology and Ecology, 67056, Ludwigshafen, Germany.
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- US Environmental Protection Agency, National Health Environmental Effects Research Lab, 109 T.W. Alexander Drive, MD B105 05, Research Triangle Park, NC, 27711, USA.
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- Bayer CropScience, P.O. Box 12014, RTP, NC, 27709, USA.
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- Charles River Laboratories, Developmental and Reproductive Toxicology, 1407 George Road, Ashland, OH, 44805, USA.
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- The Dow Chemical Company, Toxicology & Environmental Research and Consulting, 1803 Building, Midland, MI, 48674, USA.
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- Charles River Laboratories International, 251 Ballardvale Street, Wilmington, MA, 01887, USA.
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- BASF SE, Experimental Toxicology and Ecology, 67056, Ludwigshafen, Germany.
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Jackson J, Davies P, Leggett N, Nugawela MD, Scott LJ, Leach V, Richards A, Blacker A, Abrams P, Sharma J, Donovan J, Whiting P. Systematic review of interventions for the prevention and treatment of postoperative urinary retention. BJS Open 2018; 3:11-23. [PMID: 30734011 PMCID: PMC6354194 DOI: 10.1002/bjs5.50114] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/29/2018] [Accepted: 09/14/2018] [Indexed: 12/14/2022] Open
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Background Postoperative urinary retention (PO‐UR) is an acute and painful inability to void after surgery that can lead to complications and delayed hospital discharge. Standard treatment with a urinary catheter is associated with a risk of infection and can be distressing, undignified and uncomfortable. This systematic review aimed to identify effective interventions for the prevention and treatment of PO‐UR that might be alternatives to urinary catheterization. Methods Electronic databases were searched from inception to September 2017. Randomized trials of interventions for the prevention or treatment of PO‐UR were eligible for inclusion. Studies were assessed for risk of bias using the Cochrane (2.0) tool. Two reviewers were involved at all review stages. Where possible, data were pooled using random‐effects meta‐analysis. The overall quality of the body of evidence was rated using the GRADE approach. Results Some 48 studies involving 5644 participants were included. Most interventions were pharmacological strategies to prevent PO‐UR. Based on GRADE, there was high‐certainty evidence to support replacing morphine in a regional anaesthetic regimen, using alpha‐blockers (number needed to treat to prevent one case of PO‐UR (NNT) 5, 95 per cent c.i. 5 to 7), the antispasmodic drug drotaverine (NNT 9, 7 to 30) and early postoperative mobilization (NNT 5, 4 to 8) for prevention, and employing hot packs or gauze soaked in warm water for treatment (NNT 2, 2 to 4). Very few studies reported on secondary outcomes of pain, incidence of urinary tract infection or duration of hospital stay. Conclusion Promising interventions exist for PO‐UR, but they need to be evaluated in randomized trials investigating comparative clinical and cost effectiveness, and acceptability to patients.
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- J Jackson
- National Institute for Health Research Collaboration for Leadership in Applied Health Research and Care West (NIHR CLAHRC West) University Hospitals Bristol NHS Foundation Trust Bristol UK.,Population Health Sciences, Bristol Medical School University of Bristol Bristol UK
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- National Institute for Health Research Collaboration for Leadership in Applied Health Research and Care West (NIHR CLAHRC West) University Hospitals Bristol NHS Foundation Trust Bristol UK.,Population Health Sciences, Bristol Medical School University of Bristol Bristol UK
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- National Institute for Health Research Collaboration for Leadership in Applied Health Research and Care West (NIHR CLAHRC West) University Hospitals Bristol NHS Foundation Trust Bristol UK.,Population Health Sciences, Bristol Medical School University of Bristol Bristol UK
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- National Institute for Health Research Collaboration for Leadership in Applied Health Research and Care West (NIHR CLAHRC West) University Hospitals Bristol NHS Foundation Trust Bristol UK.,Population Health Sciences, Bristol Medical School University of Bristol Bristol UK
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- National Institute for Health Research Collaboration for Leadership in Applied Health Research and Care West (NIHR CLAHRC West) University Hospitals Bristol NHS Foundation Trust Bristol UK.,Population Health Sciences, Bristol Medical School University of Bristol Bristol UK
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- National Institute for Health Research Collaboration for Leadership in Applied Health Research and Care West (NIHR CLAHRC West) University Hospitals Bristol NHS Foundation Trust Bristol UK.,Population Health Sciences, Bristol Medical School University of Bristol Bristol UK
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- National Institute for Health Research Collaboration for Leadership in Applied Health Research and Care West (NIHR CLAHRC West) University Hospitals Bristol NHS Foundation Trust Bristol UK.,Population Health Sciences, Bristol Medical School University of Bristol Bristol UK
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- University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire Coventry UK
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- Bristol Urological Institute, North Bristol NHS Trust Bristol UK
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- University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire Coventry UK
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- National Institute for Health Research Collaboration for Leadership in Applied Health Research and Care West (NIHR CLAHRC West) University Hospitals Bristol NHS Foundation Trust Bristol UK.,Population Health Sciences, Bristol Medical School University of Bristol Bristol UK
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- National Institute for Health Research Collaboration for Leadership in Applied Health Research and Care West (NIHR CLAHRC West) University Hospitals Bristol NHS Foundation Trust Bristol UK.,Population Health Sciences, Bristol Medical School University of Bristol Bristol UK
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Bulman Page P, Farah M, Buckley B, Chan Y, Blacker A. Preparation of C 2-Symmetric Biaryl Bisiminium Salts and Their Use as Organocatalysts for Asymmetric Epoxidation. Synlett 2015. [DOI: 10.1055/s-0035-1560540] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/22/2022]
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- School of Chemistry, University of East Anglia
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- School of Chemistry, University of Leeds
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Blacker A, Breum R, Dacus S, Kwiatkowski P, Laporte F, Mallyon B, Rupprecht K, Stumpf K. Bayer CropScience's position on the findings of glufosinate and its metabolite. Reprod Toxicol 2011; 32:494-5; author reply 496-7. [PMID: 22001252 DOI: 10.1016/j.reprotox.2011.10.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/08/2011] [Accepted: 10/01/2011] [Indexed: 10/17/2022]
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Bulman Page P, Farah M, Buckley B, Blacker A, Lacour J. Novel Binaphthalene-Amine Catalysts for the Asymmetric Epoxidation of Alkenes. Synlett 2008. [DOI: 10.1055/s-2008-1072592] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/22/2022]
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Doe JE, Boobis AR, Blacker A, Dellarco V, Doerrer NG, Franklin C, Goodman JI, Kronenberg JM, Lewis R, Mcconnell EE, Mercier T, Moretto A, Nolan C, Padilla S, Phang W, Solecki R, Tilbury L, van Ravenzwaay B, Wolf DC. A tiered approach to systemic toxicity testing for agricultural chemical safety assessment. Crit Rev Toxicol 2006; 36:37-68. [PMID: 16708694 DOI: 10.1080/10408440500534370] [Citation(s) in RCA: 53] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
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A proposal has been developed by the Agricultural Chemical Safety Assessment (ACSA) Technical Committee of the ILSI Health and Environmental Sciences Institute (HESI) for an improved approach to assessing the safety of crop protection chemicals. The goal is to ensure that studies are scientifically appropriate and necessary without being redundant, and that tests emphasize toxicological endpoints and exposure durations that are relevant for risk assessment. The ACSA Systemic Toxicity Task Force proposes an approach to systemic toxicity testing as one part of the overall assessment of a compound's potential to cause adverse effects on health. The approach is designed to provide more relevant data for deriving reference doses for shorter time periods of human exposure, and includes fewer studies for deriving longer term reference doses-that is, neither a 12-month dog study nor a mouse carcinogenicity study is recommended. All available data, including toxicokinetics and metabolism data and life stages information, are taken into account. The proposed tiered testing approach has the potential to provide new risk assessment information for shorter human exposure durations while reducing the number of animals used and without compromising the sensitivity of the determination of longer term reference doses.
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- John E Doe
- Syngenta CTL, Macclesfield, United Kingdom
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Wéry N, Foulon O, Blacker A, Picard JJ, Gofflot F. Vertebral malformations induced by sodium salicylate correlate with shifts in expression domains of Hox genes. Reprod Toxicol 2005; 20:39-45. [PMID: 15808784 DOI: 10.1016/j.reprotox.2004.12.014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/07/2004] [Revised: 11/08/2004] [Accepted: 12/08/2004] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Several embryotoxic agents, which includes sodium salicylate, were reported to induce vertebral variations in the form of supernumerary ribs (SNR) when administered to pregnant rodents. Because the biological significance of SNR in toxicological studies is still a matter of debate, we investigated the molecular basis of this defect by analyzing the possible involvement of Hox genes, known to specify vertebrae identity. Sodium salicylate (300mg/kg) was administered to pregnant rats on gestational day 9 (GD 9). On GD 13, the expression of several Hox genes, selected according to the position of their anterior limit of expression, namely upstream (Hoxa9), at the level (Hoxa10) and downstream (Hoxd9) to the morphological alteration, were analyzed. Posterior shifts in the anterior limit of expression of Hoxa10 and Hoxd9 were observed following exposure to salicylate, which could explain an effect at the level of the axial skeleton. This finding suggests that the appearance of ectopic ribs can be attributed to an anterior transformation of lumbar vertebrae identity into thoracic vertebrae identity. Whether this transformation occurs with all compounds inducing SNR in rats remains to be determined.
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- Nathalie Wéry
- Unit of Developmental Genetics, Université Catholique de Louvain, Brussels, Belgium
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The kidney is well documented as the target organ for mercuric ion. Mechanisms by which this ion accumulates in renal tissue, however, are less well understood. Sulfhydryl groups in renal tissue might well bind this metal and serve as a sink for its accumulation. Various studies have indicated that both methyl mercury as well as mercuric ion are accumulated less by renal tissue after depletion of nonprotein sulfhydryl groups. A similar reduction in hepatic accumulation of mercuric ion or methyl mercury does not occur after nonprotein sulfhydryl depletion. This observation may relate to the higher tissue content of nonprotein sulfhydryls in liver than kidney or to a fundamentally different mechanism of metal uptake. Mercuric ion accumulation by renal tissue also can be reduced by ureteral occlusion, a reduction that is less than that for inulin in comparable experiments. These data are complex and do not clearly establish a role for filtration in the delivery of mercury to the kidney. Inhibition of the renal enzyme gamma-glutamyl transpeptidase (gamma-GT) results in a marked increase in the excretion of both glutathione and mercury in the urine. Although there is a tendency for kidneys of the gamma-GT-inhibited animals to contain less mercury than controls, the change in renal content was not significant. These observations suggest that gamma-GT may have a role in the reabsorption of mercury from the tubular lumen. Interestingly, both mercuric chloride-induced mortality and effects on renal slice accumulation of organic ions were enhanced in the presence of nonprotein sulfhydryl depletion caused both by immediate depletion of the glutathione pool and by inhibition of its synthesis.
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