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Toward a Global Understanding of Chemical Pollution: A First Comprehensive Analysis of National and Regional Chemical Inventories.

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A first comprehensive overview of chemicals on the market as an essential first step toward a global understanding of chemical pollution is achieved.
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Chemicals, while bringing benefits to society, may be released during their lifecycles and possibly cause harm to humans and ecosystems. Chemical pollution has been mentioned as one of the planetar...

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Outside the Safe Operating Space of the Planetary Boundary for Novel Entities

TL;DR: It is submitted that the safe operating space of the planetary boundary of novel entities is exceeded since annual production and releases are increasing at a pace that outstrips the global capacity for assessment and monitoring.
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Deep Dive into Plastic Monomers, Additives, and Processing Aids.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors systematically investigated plastic monomers, additives, and processing aids on the global market based on a review of 63 industrial, scientific, and regulatory data sources, identifying more than 10'000 relevant substances and categorizing them based on substance types, use patterns, and hazard classifications.
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Chemical pollution: A growing peril and potential catastrophic risk to humanity.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a comprehensive perspective of the threat of chemical pollution to humanity, emphasising male fertility, cognitive health and food security, and the need for enhanced global awareness and scientific scrutiny of the overall scale of risk posed by chemical usage, dispersal and disposal.
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A safe operating space for humanity

TL;DR: Identifying and quantifying planetary boundaries that must not be transgressed could help prevent human activities from causing unacceptable environmental change, argue Johan Rockstrom and colleagues.
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ClassyFire: automated chemical classification with a comprehensive, computable taxonomy

TL;DR: A comprehensive, flexible, and computable, purely structure-based chemical taxonomy (ChemOnt) is developed along with a computer program (ClassyFire) that uses only chemical structures and structural features to automatically assign all known chemical compounds to a taxonomy consisting of >4800 different categories.
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The CompTox Chemistry Dashboard: a community data resource for environmental chemistry

TL;DR: The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s web-based CompTox Chemistry Dashboard is addressing needs by integrating diverse types of relevant domain data through a cheminformatics layer, built upon a database of curated substances linked to chemical structures.
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Are There Other Persistent Organic Pollutants? A Challenge for Environmental Chemists.

TL;DR: The question of whether there is now sufficient information to permit a broader array of chemicals to be determined in environmental matrices is addressed and 30 chemicals with high predicted bioconcentration and low rate of biodegradation are listed.
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