@article{ref1,
title="Mining of consumer product ingredient and purchasing data to identify potential chemical coexposures",
journal="Environmental health perspectives",
year="2021",
author="Stanfield, Zachary and Addington, Cody K. and Dionisio, Kathie L. and Lyons, David and Tornero-Velez, Rogelio and Phillips, Katherine A. and Buckley, Timothy J. and Isaacs, Kristin K.",
volume="129",
number="6",
pages="67006-67006",
abstract="BACKGROUND: Chemicals in consumer products are a major contributor to human chemical coexposures. Consumers purchase and use a wide variety of products containing potentially thousands of chemicals. There is a need to identify potential real-world chemical coexposures to prioritize in vitro toxicity screening. However, due to the vast number of potential chemical combinations, this identification has been a major challenge. <br><br>OBJECTIVES: We aimed to develop and implement a data-driven procedure for identifying prevalent chemical combinations to which humans are exposed through purchase and use of consumer products. <br><br>METHODS: We applied frequent itemset mining to an integrated data set linking consumer product chemical ingredient data with product purchasing data from 60,000 households to identify chemical combinations resulting from co-use of consumer products. <br><br>RESULTS: We identified co-occurrence patterns of chemicals over all households as well as those specific to demographic groups based on race/ethnicity, income, education, and family composition. We also identified chemicals with the highest potential for aggregate exposure by identifying chemicals occurring in multiple products used by the same household. Last, a case study of chemicals active in estrogen and androgen receptor in silico models revealed priority chemical combinations co-targeting receptors involved in important biological signaling pathways. <br><br>DISCUSSION: Integration and comprehensive analysis of household purchasing data and product-chemical information provided a means to assess human near-field exposure and inform selection of chemical combinations for high-throughput screening in in vitro assays. https://doi.org/10.1289/EHP8610.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0091-6765",
doi="10.1289/EHP8610",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1289/EHP8610"
}