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ArticleACS sustainable chemistry & engineering2021

Avoiding Regrettable Substitutions: Green Toxicology for Sustainable Chemistry.

Alexandra Maertens, Emily Golden, Thomas Hartung

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Article in ACS sustainable chemistry & engineering, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 40 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

40 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Alexandra MaertensCenter for Alternatives to Animal Testing (CAAT), Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Department of Environmental Health and Engineering, Baltimore, Maryland 21205, United States.
Emily GoldenCenter for Alternatives to Animal Testing (CAAT), Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Department of Environmental Health and Engineering, Baltimore, Maryland 21205, United States.ORCID 0000-0002-9760-143X
Thomas HartungCenter for Alternatives to Animal Testing (CAAT), Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Department of Environmental Health and Engineering, Baltimore, Maryland 21205, United States; CAAT-Europe, University of Konstanz, 78464 Konstanz, Germany.ORCID 0000-0003-1359-7689

Funding

Traning Program in Environmental Health SciencesT32ES007141 · NIEHS · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · PI Marsha Wills-Karp · 1985 to 2026
$22.2M
NIEHS NIH HHS T32 ES007141
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Green chemistry seeks to design less hazardous chemicals, but many of the efforts to replace chemicals have resulted in so-called "Regrettable Substitutions", when a chemical with an unknown or unforeseen hazard is used to replace a chemical identified as problematic. Here, we discuss the literature on regrettable substitution and focus on an oft-mentioned case, Bisphenol A, which was replaced with Bisphenol S-and the lessons that can be learned from this history. In particular, we focus on how Green Toxicology can offer a way to make better substitutions.

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alternatives assessmentsBisphenol AGreen Toxicologylife cycle analysisregrettable substitutions

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PMID36051558
PMCPMC9432817

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