Risk assessment of complex mixtures of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) at superfund sites /

This research was designed to determine whether a component-

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Collie, Shanna Lee
Format: Thesis Book
Language:English
Published: [Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified] ; 1997.
Subjects:
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245 1 0 |a Risk assessment of complex mixtures of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) at superfund sites /  |c by Shanna Lee Collie. 
264 1 |a [Place of publication not identified] :  |b [publisher not identified] ;  |c 1997. 
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504 |a Includes bibliographical references: pages 131-143. 
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502 |b Ph. D.  |c Texas A&M University  |d 1997. 
500 |a "Major Subject: Toxicology". 
530 |a Issued also on microfiche from University Microfilms Inc. 
520 |a This research was designed to determine whether a component- 
520 |a based chemical characterization can effectively predict the  
520 |a same mutagenic (and ultimately, carcinogenic) potential of a  
520 |a whole-mixture extract as detectable in direct in vitro  
520 |a testing. In so doing, soil and waste samples were collected  
520 |a at "Superfund" sites planning or undergoing remediation for  
520 |a extraction. Extracts were tested qualitatively and  
520 |a quantitatively for mutagenicity using the  
520 |a Salmonella/microsome and/or the E. coli prophage induction  
520 |a assays. Quantitative and qualitative chemical analysis  
520 |a formed the basis for the cancer risk assessment, which was  
520 |a intended to provide a component-based estimate of the  
520 |a carcinogenic potential of the mixture extracts based on an  
520 |a assumption of additivity. The chemical component-based risk  
520 |a assessment includes a limited number of specific carcinogenic  
520 |a components, whereas the results of the in vitro genotoxicity  
520 |a assays were shown to reflect the response of the whole  
520 |a complex mixture extract. No clear-cut correlations held for  
520 |a all four sites described when either specific or weighted  
520 |a mutagenic activity values were compared with estimated  
520 |a lifetime cancer risk. The striking absence of mutagenicity  
520 |a in the Site 4 sample that carried a plausible upper bound  
520 |a excess cancer incidence of 238 per million exposed population  
520 |a is one example of how biological testing (especially a single  
520 |a endpoint) alone may not be a reliable measure of risk. At  
520 |a the same time, results from testing of Site 1 samples  
520 |a indicated that although treatment and dilution of highly  
520 |a contaminated soils greatly decreased the resultant cancer  
520 |a risk to below target levels, a battery of genotoxicity assays  
520 |a could not confirm the risk assessment findings. Departures  
520 |a between direct whole-mixture in vitro mutagenicity testing  
520 |a and carcinogenic potential based on additive, component-based  
520 |a calculations were investigated. This research thus 
520 |a determined that the component-based approach to cancer risk  
520 |a assessment of complex mixtures described here did not concur  
520 |a with the direct in vitro whole-mixture approach to assessing  
520 |a mutagenic (and ultimately, carcinogenic) potential. 
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