ArticleEnvironmental science & technology2024
Should Transformation Products Change the Way We Manage Chemicals?
Article in Environmental science & technology, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 17 papers.
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- When remediation creates toxicological risk: transformation products and the soil exposome in contaminated agroecosystems.Archives of toxicology · 2026Article
- Remediation of organic pollutants by Fenton-like reactions with spinel catalysts: pathways, transformation products, and reactor perspectives.Environmental science and pollution research international · 2026Review
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- A concept for the molecular design of readily treatable chemicals.RSC sustainability · 2026Review
- Browsing FAIR Transformation Product Information with FAIR-TPs.ACS environmental Au · 2026Article
- Persistence Assessment of Chemicals: Trajectories toward New Approach Methodologies (P-NAMs).Environmental science & technology · 2026Review
- Confidently Uncertain: Probabilistic Machine Learning to Predict Soil Biotransformation Half-Lives.Environmental science & technology · 2026Article
- Suspect Screening and Prioritization as an Analytical Strategy for the Identification of Persistent, Mobile, and Toxic (PMT) Substances in Surface Water.Analytical chemistry · 2026Article
- Persistent and Mobile Chemicals, Including Ultrashort-Chain PFAS, in Groundwater: Distribution, Relevant Factors, and Risk.Environmental science & technology · 2026Article
- FAIR and Effective Communication of Data on Chemical Contaminant Biotransformation in the Environment.Environmental science & technology letters · 2025Review
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- A Hazard-Based Approach Enables the Efficient Identification of Chemicals of Concern in Plastics.Environmental science & technology · 2025Review
- Aqueous secondary formation substantially contributes to hydrophilic organophosphate esters in aerosols.Nature communications · 2025Article
- Plant Uptake of Persistent and Mobile Chemicals in Rocket (Environmental science & technology · 2025Article
- Presence of Micropollutants and Transformation Products During Subsurface Irrigation with Treated Wastewater Assessed by Non-Target Screening Analysis.ACS ES&T water · 2025Article
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Abstract
When chemical pollutants enter the environment, they can undergo diverse transformation processes, forming a wide range of transformation products (TPs), some of them benign and others more harmful than their precursors. To date, the majority of TPs remain largely unrecognized and unregulated, particularly as TPs are generally not part of routine chemical risk or hazard assessment. Since many TPs formed from oxidative processes are more polar than their precursors, they may be especially relevant in the context of persistent, mobile, and toxic (PMT) and very persistent and very mobile (vPvM) substances, which are two new hazard classes that have recently been established on a European level. We highlight herein that as a result, TPs deserve more attention in research, chemicals regulation, and chemicals management. This perspective summarizes the main challenges preventing a better integration of TPs in these areas: (1) the lack of reliable high-throughput TP identification methods, (2) uncertainties in TP prediction, (3) inadequately considered TP formation during (advanced) water treatment, and (4) insufficient integration and harmonization of TPs in most regulatory frameworks. A way forward to tackle these challenges and integrate TPs into chemical management is proposed.
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