TY - JOUR
T1 - Proposal of new uncertainty factor application to derive tolerable daily intake
AU - Hasegawa, Ryuichi
AU - Hirata-Koizumi, Mutsuko
AU - Dourson, Michael L.
AU - Parker, Ann
AU - Sweeney, Lisa M.
AU - Nishikawa, Akiyoshi
AU - Yoshida, Midori
AU - Ono, Atsushi
AU - Hirose, Akihiko
N1 - Funding Information:
The present study was supported by Grants-in-Aid from Food Safety Commission , Japan (No. 0704 ) and developmental research funds from Toxicology Excellence for Risk Assessment, a non-profit toxicology R&D organization. The authors acknowledge Drs. Takeo Nomi and Masami Yamada (National Institute of Health Sciences, Japan) for their valuable comments.
PY - 2010/11
Y1 - 2010/11
N2 - We propose new uncertainty factors (UFs) and a new subdivision of default factors in chemical risk assessment using a probabilistic approach based on the latest applicable information. Rounded values of 150 for mice, 100 for hamsters and rats, and 40 for rabbits, monkeys and dogs for inter- and intra-species differences (UFAH) were derived from the probabilistic combination of two log-normal distributions. Further calculation of additional UFs when chronic data (UFS) or NOAEL (UFL) are lacking was conducted using available log-normal distribution information. The alternative UFS and UFL values of 4 are considered to be appropriate for both cases where data are lacking. The default contributions of inter-species difference (UFA) and intra-species difference (UFH) to the UFAH of 100 for hamsters and rats as an example are considered to be 25 and 4, respectively. The UFA of 25 was subdivided into 250.6 (i.e., 7.0) for pharmacokinetics (PK) (UFA,PK) and 250.4 (i.e., 3.6) for pharmacodynamics (PD) (UFA,PD), and the UFH of 4 was evenly subdivided into 40.5 (i.e., 2) (UFH,PK and UFH,PD), to account for chemical-specific difference data between humans and laboratory animals for PK and/or PD. These default UFs, which come from actual experimental data, may be more appropriate than previous default UFs to derive tolerable daily intake values.
AB - We propose new uncertainty factors (UFs) and a new subdivision of default factors in chemical risk assessment using a probabilistic approach based on the latest applicable information. Rounded values of 150 for mice, 100 for hamsters and rats, and 40 for rabbits, monkeys and dogs for inter- and intra-species differences (UFAH) were derived from the probabilistic combination of two log-normal distributions. Further calculation of additional UFs when chronic data (UFS) or NOAEL (UFL) are lacking was conducted using available log-normal distribution information. The alternative UFS and UFL values of 4 are considered to be appropriate for both cases where data are lacking. The default contributions of inter-species difference (UFA) and intra-species difference (UFH) to the UFAH of 100 for hamsters and rats as an example are considered to be 25 and 4, respectively. The UFA of 25 was subdivided into 250.6 (i.e., 7.0) for pharmacokinetics (PK) (UFA,PK) and 250.4 (i.e., 3.6) for pharmacodynamics (PD) (UFA,PD), and the UFH of 4 was evenly subdivided into 40.5 (i.e., 2) (UFH,PK and UFH,PD), to account for chemical-specific difference data between humans and laboratory animals for PK and/or PD. These default UFs, which come from actual experimental data, may be more appropriate than previous default UFs to derive tolerable daily intake values.
KW - Chemical risk assessment
KW - Probabilistic approach
KW - Subdivision of UF
KW - Uncertainty factor
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U2 - 10.1016/j.yrtph.2010.06.006
DO - 10.1016/j.yrtph.2010.06.006
M3 - Article
C2 - 20561553
AN - SCOPUS:77957338946
SN - 0273-2300
VL - 58
SP - 237
EP - 242
JO - Regulatory Toxicology and Pharmacology
JF - Regulatory Toxicology and Pharmacology
IS - 2
ER -