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    Hubungan Penggunaan Dan Penanganan Pestisida Pada Petani Bawang Merah Terhadap Residu Pestisida Dalam Tanah Di Lahan Pertanian Desa Wanasari Kecamatan Wanasari Kabupaten Brebes

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    Excessive use of pesticides causing pollution and environmental damage agriculture. Examination in Brebes on 31 samples of fruits and vegetables, found 22% of samples contain detectable residues of organophosphate and found two soil samples (10%) contained residues organochlorin. The purpose of this study was to determine the relationship of the use and handling of pesticides on their onion farmers against pesticide residues in the soil on agricultural land Wanasari Village, District Wanasari, Brebes. This study is observational method with cross sectional approach. The population in this study were all farmers in the Wanasari conducting spraying. Collecting data using the tool Banu questionnaire and examination of pesticide residues in soil using GC-MS Gas Chromatography - Mass Spectrometry. The results of this study are of 55 69.1 onion farmers use pesticides are not good. The use of pesticides covering 80% is not good in mixing pesticides, 87.3% use a smaller dose, 49.1% use pesticides that are not registered with the Ministry of Agriculture, 87.3% is not good in the way of spraying and 87.3 does well in frequency spraying. Handling pesticides in agricultural land is not good 59.1%, ie 74.5% is not good in handling pesticide containers, 90.9% is not good in storage of pesticides, 89.1% is not good in handling a spill and 87.3% did not either in place to clean pesticide containers. The research result is negative soil samples pesticide residues. The conclusion was that no pesticide residue class organochlorin

    Development and Evaluation of a Database of Dietary Bioaccumulation Test Data for Organic Chemicals in Fish

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    Dietary bioaccumulation tests for fish have been conducted for about 40 years. Standardized test guidance has recently been developed. Test metrics of primary scientific and regulatory interest are the whole body depuration rate constant (<i>k</i><sub>T</sub>), whole body growth corrected depuration rate constant (<i>k</i><sub>Tg</sub>), and corresponding chemical half-lives (<i>t</i><sub>1/2</sub> and <i>t</i><sub>1/2g</sub>), dietary chemical absorption efficiency (AE), and biomagnification factor (BMF). A database of 3032 measurement end points for 477 discrete organic chemicals including 964 half-lives, 1199 AEs and 869 BMFs from 19 species (primarily trout and carp) was developed from the literature. Biological properties (e.g., organism weight, lipid content) and exposure conditions (e.g., temperature, feeding rate, dietary lipid content, exposure duration) are documented. Test chemicals range in molar mass from 120 to 1423 g·mol<sup>–1</sup> with log octanol–water partition coefficients (<i>K</i><sub>OW</sub>) ranging from 0.8 to 14.3; 50% of the database entries are for polychlorinated biphenyls. The measured end points are derived from various protocols and sources of variability are described. The data are evaluated and categorized using proposed data quality (confidence) criteria derived from the standardized test protocol providing initial guidance for data users. Half-lives range from 0.13 to 2600 days; however, approximately 54% have an identifiable source of uncertainty. The data suggest that chemicals absorbed from the gastrointestinal tract with a log <i>K</i><sub>OW</sub> ≥ ∼5 and at least as high as ∼9 have biomagnification potential in fish. A mechanistic bioaccumulation model is compared to the measured data and used to illustrate the influence of growth and biotransformation rates on the BMF

    Development and Evaluation of a Database of Dietary Bioaccumulation Test Data for Organic Chemicals in Fish

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    Dietary bioaccumulation tests for fish have been conducted for about 40 years. Standardized test guidance has recently been developed. Test metrics of primary scientific and regulatory interest are the whole body depuration rate constant (<i>k</i><sub>T</sub>), whole body growth corrected depuration rate constant (<i>k</i><sub>Tg</sub>), and corresponding chemical half-lives (<i>t</i><sub>1/2</sub> and <i>t</i><sub>1/2g</sub>), dietary chemical absorption efficiency (AE), and biomagnification factor (BMF). A database of 3032 measurement end points for 477 discrete organic chemicals including 964 half-lives, 1199 AEs and 869 BMFs from 19 species (primarily trout and carp) was developed from the literature. Biological properties (e.g., organism weight, lipid content) and exposure conditions (e.g., temperature, feeding rate, dietary lipid content, exposure duration) are documented. Test chemicals range in molar mass from 120 to 1423 g·mol<sup>–1</sup> with log octanol–water partition coefficients (<i>K</i><sub>OW</sub>) ranging from 0.8 to 14.3; 50% of the database entries are for polychlorinated biphenyls. The measured end points are derived from various protocols and sources of variability are described. The data are evaluated and categorized using proposed data quality (confidence) criteria derived from the standardized test protocol providing initial guidance for data users. Half-lives range from 0.13 to 2600 days; however, approximately 54% have an identifiable source of uncertainty. The data suggest that chemicals absorbed from the gastrointestinal tract with a log <i>K</i><sub>OW</sub> ≥ ∼5 and at least as high as ∼9 have biomagnification potential in fish. A mechanistic bioaccumulation model is compared to the measured data and used to illustrate the influence of growth and biotransformation rates on the BMF

    Model for Screening-Level Assessment of Near-Field Human Exposure to Neutral Organic Chemicals Released Indoors

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    Screening organic chemicals for hazard and risk to human health requires near-field human exposure models that can be readily parametrized with available data. The integration of a model of human exposure, uptake, and bioaccumulation into an indoor mass balance model provides a quantitative framework linking emissions in indoor environments with human intake rates (<i>iR</i>s), intake fractions (<i>iF</i>s) and steady-state concentrations in humans (<i>C</i>) through consideration of dermal permeation, inhalation, and nondietary ingestion exposure pathways. Parameterized based on representative indoor and adult human characteristics, the model is applied here to 40 chemicals of relevance in the context of human exposure assessment. Intake fractions and human concentrations (<i>C</i><sub>U</sub>) calculated with the model based on a unit emission rate to air for these 40 chemicals span 2 and 5 orders of magnitude, respectively. Differences in priority ranking based on either <i>iF</i> or <i>C</i><sub>U</sub> can be attributed to the absorption, biotransformation and elimination processes within the human body. The model is further applied to a large data set of hypothetical chemicals representative of many in-use chemicals to show how the dominant exposure pathways, <i>iF</i> and <i>C</i><sub>U</sub> change as a function of chemical properties and to illustrate the capacity of the model for high-throughput screening. These simulations provide hypotheses for the combination of chemical properties that may result in high exposure and internal dose. The model is further exploited to highlight the role human contaminant uptake plays in the overall fate of certain chemicals indoors and consequently human exposure

    Revisiting the Contributions of Far- and Near-Field Routes to Aggregate Human Exposure to Polychlorinated Biphenyls (PCBs)

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    The general population is exposed to polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) by consuming food from far-field contaminated agricultural and aquatic environments, and inhalation and nondietary ingestion in near-field indoor or residential environments. Here, we seek to evaluate the relative importance of far- and near-field routes by simulating the time-variant aggregate exposure of Swedish females to PCB congeners from 1930 to 2030. We rely on a mechanistic model, which integrates a food-chain bioaccumulation module and a human toxicokinetic module with dynamic substance flow analysis and nested indoor-urban-rural environmental fate modeling. Confidence in the model is established by successfully reproducing the observed PCB concentrations in Swedish human milk between 1972 and 2016. In general, far-field routes contribute most to total PCB uptake. However, near-field exposure is notable for (i) children and teenagers, who have frequent hand-to-mouth contact, (ii) cohorts born in earlier years, e.g., in 1956, when indoor environments were severely contaminated, and (iii) lighter chlorinated congeners. The relative importance of far- and near-field exposure in a cross-section of individuals of different age sampled at the same time is shown to depend on the time of sampling. The transition from the dominance of near- to far-field exposure that has happened for PCBs may also occur for other chemicals used indoors

    Estimating Screening-Level Organic Chemical Half-Lives in Humans

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    Relatively few measured data are available for the thousands of chemicals requiring hazard and risk assessment. The whole body, total elimination half-life (<i>HL</i><sub>T</sub>) and the whole body, primary biotransformation half-life (<i>HL</i><sub>B</sub>) are key parameters determining the extent of bioaccumulation, biological concentration, and risk from chemical exposure. A one-compartment pharmacokinetic (1-CoPK) mass balance model was developed to estimate organic chemical <i>HL</i><sub>B</sub> from measured <i>HL</i><sub>T</sub> data in mammals. Approximately 1900 <i>HL</i>s for human adults were collected and reviewed and the 1-CoPK model was parametrized for an adult human to calculate <i>HL</i><sub>B</sub> from <i>HL</i><sub>T</sub>. Measured renal clearance and whole body total clearance data for 306 chemicals were used to calculate empirical <i>HL</i><sub>B,emp</sub>. The <i>HL</i><sub>B,emp</sub> values and other measured data were used to corroborate the 1-CoPK <i>HL</i><sub>B</sub> model calculations. <i>HL</i>s span approximately 7.5 orders of magnitude from 0.05 h for nitroglycerin to 2 × 10<sup>6</sup> h for 2,3,4,5,2′,3′,5′,6′-octachlorobiphenyl with a median of 7.6 h. The automated Iterative Fragment Selection (IFS) method was applied to develop and evaluate various quantitative structure–activity relationships (QSARs) to predict <i>HL</i><sub>T</sub> and <i>HL</i><sub>B</sub> from chemical structure and two novel QSARs are detailed. The <i>HL</i><sub>T</sub> and <i>HL</i><sub>B</sub> QSARs show similar statistical performance; that is, <i>r</i><sup>2</sup> = 0.89, <i>r</i><sup>2‑ext</sup> = 0.72 and 0.73 for training and external validation sets, respectively, and root-mean-square errors for the validation data sets are 0.70 and 0.75, respectively

    Application of Mass Balance Models and the Chemical Activity Concept To Facilitate the Use of in Vitro Toxicity Data for Risk Assessment

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    Practical, financial, and ethical considerations related to conducting extensive animal testing have resulted in various initiatives to promote and expand the use of in vitro testing data for chemical evaluations. Nominal concentrations in the aqueous phase corresponding to an effect (or biological activity) are commonly reported and used to characterize toxicity (or biological response). However, the true concentration in the aqueous phase can be substantially different from the nominal. To support in vitro test design and aid the interpretation of in vitro toxicity data, we developed a mass balance model that can be parametrized and applied to represent typical in vitro test systems. The model calculates the mass distribution, freely dissolved concentrations, and cell/tissue concentrations corresponding to the initial nominal concentration and experimental conditions specified by the user. Chemical activity, a metric which can be used to assess the potential for baseline toxicity to occur, is also calculated. The model is first applied to a set of hypothetical chemicals to illustrate the degree to which test conditions (e.g., presence or absence of serum) influence the distribution of the chemical in the test system. The model is then applied to set of 1194 real substances (predominantly from the ToxCast chemical database) to calculate the potential range of concentrations and chemical activities under assumed test conditions. The model demonstrates how both concentrations and chemical activities can vary by orders of magnitude for the same nominal concentration

    DataSheet1_In vitro biotransformation assays using fish liver cells: Comparing rainbow trout and carp hepatocytes.pdf

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    Biotransformation assays using primary hepatocytes from rainbow trout, Oncorhynchus mykiss, were validated as a reliable in vitro tool to predict in vivo bioconcentration factors (BCF) of chemicals in fish. Given the pronounced interspecies differences of chemical biotransformation, the present study aimed to compare biotransformation rate values and BCF predictions obtained with hepatocytes from the cold-water species, rainbow trout, to data obtained with hepatocytes of the warm-water species, common carp (Cyprinus carpio). In a first step, we adapted the protocol for the trout hepatocyte assay, including the cryopreservation method, to carp hepatocytes. The successful adaptation serves as proof of principle that the in vitro hepatocyte biotransformation assays can be technically transferred across fish species. In a second step, we compared the in vitro intrinsic clearance rates (CLin vitro, int) of two model xenobiotics, benzo[a]pyrene (BaP) and methoxychlor (MXC), in trout and carp hepatocytes. The in vitro data were used to predict in vivo biotransformation rate constants (kB) and BCFs, which were then compared to measured in vivo kB and BCF values. The CLin vitro, int values of BaP and MXC did not differ significantly between trout and carp hepatocytes, but the predicted BCF values were significantly higher in trout than in carp. In contrast, the measured in vivo BCF values did not differ significantly between the two species. A possible explanation of this discrepancy is that the existing in vitro-in vivo prediction models are parameterized only for trout but not for carp. Therefore, future research needs to develop species-specific extrapolation models.</p

    Chemical Space Covered by Applicability Domains of Quantitative Structure–Property Relationships and Semiempirical Relationships in Chemical Assessments

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    A significant number of chemicals registered in national and regional chemical inventories require assessments of their potential “hazard” concerns posed to humans and ecological receptors. This warrants knowledge of their partitioning and reactivity properties, which are often predicted by quantitative structure–property relationships (QSPRs) and other semiempirical relationships. It is imperative to evaluate the applicability domain (AD) of these tools to ensure their suitability for assessment purpose. Here, we investigate the extent to which the ADs of commonly used QSPRs and semiempirical relationships cover seven partitioning and reactivity properties of a chemical “space” comprising 81,000+ organic chemicals registered in regulatory and academic chemical inventories. Our findings show that around or more than half of the chemicals studied are covered by at least one of the commonly used QSPRs. The investigated QSPRs demonstrate adequate AD coverage for organochlorides and organobromines but limited AD coverage for chemicals containing fluorine and phosphorus. These QSPRs exhibit limited AD coverage for atmospheric reactivity, biodegradation, and octanol–air partitioning, particularly for ionizable organic chemicals compared to nonionizable ones, challenging assessments of environmental persistence, bioaccumulation capability, and long-range transport potential. We also find that a predictive tool’s AD coverage of chemicals depends on how the AD is defined, for example, by the distance of a predicted chemical from the centroid of the training chemicals or by the presence or absence of structural features

    Risk-Based High-Throughput Chemical Screening and Prioritization using Exposure Models and in Vitro Bioactivity Assays

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    We present a risk-based high-throughput screening (HTS) method to identify chemicals for potential health concerns or for which additional information is needed. The method is applied to 180 organic chemicals as a case study. We first obtain information on how the chemical is used and identify relevant use scenarios (e.g., dermal application, indoor emissions). For each chemical and use scenario, exposure models are then used to calculate a chemical intake fraction, or a product intake fraction, accounting for chemical properties and the exposed population. We then combine these intake fractions with use scenario-specific estimates of chemical quantity to calculate daily intake rates (iR; mg/kg/day). These intake rates are compared to oral equivalent doses (OED; mg/kg/day), calculated from a suite of ToxCast in vitro bioactivity assays using in vitro-to-in vivo extrapolation and reverse dosimetry. Bioactivity quotients (BQs) are calculated as iR/OED to obtain estimates of potential impact associated with each relevant use scenario. Of the 180 chemicals considered, 38 had maximum iRs exceeding minimum OEDs (i.e., BQs > 1). For most of these compounds, exposures are associated with direct intake, food/oral contact, or dermal exposure. The method provides high-throughput estimates of exposure and important input for decision makers to identify chemicals of concern for further evaluation with additional information or more refined models
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