Transforming our understanding of the chemical exposome

尽管使用化学品有许多好处，但人们的共识是，化学品的加速生产和使用正越来越多地影响环境健康。迫切需要有效的工具来了解时空趋势和推动化学品暴露的因素。该项目旨在通过将系统抽样和归档方面的既定方案与先进的信息学和分析技术相结合来开发这些工具。该项目预计将确定令人担忧的新兴化学品，评估影响暴露的因素，并根据化学品的生产、使用和命运建立暴露模型。结果将支持基于证据的化学品监管和管理，以最大限度地减少澳大利亚化学品暴露的不利影响。

Despite many benefits associated with the use of chemicals, there is consensus that their accelerated production and use is increasingly affecting environmental health. Effective tools to understand spatiotemporal trends and factors that drive chemical exposure are urgently needed. This project aims to develop these tools by combining established programs in systematic sampling and archiving with advanced informatics and analytical techniques. The project expects to identify emerging chemicals of concern, assess factors that affect exposure and model exposure based on chemical production, use and fate. Outcomes will support evidence-based regulation and management of chemicals to minimise adverse impacts of chemical exposure in Australia.