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The integration of adverse outcome pathways and aggregate exposure pathways for food safety testing: pesticides as a case study
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31 January 2026

Chemical risk assessment is moving towards non-animal approaches that rely on the mechanistic understanding of toxicity. In this respect, the adverse outcome pathway (AOP) framework is a promising tool to capture chemical-agnostic mechanistic understanding of toxicological processes. AOPs link a molecular initiating event to a specific adverse outcome via a series of key events and key event relationships. Sharing common key features to the AOP framework, the aggregate exposure pathway (AEP) framework is a complementing tool to systematically collect chemical-specific exposure information from the source to the site of action via key exposure states and key transitional relationships. Integrating exposure and toxicological knowledge into combined AEP-AOP constructs can facilitate prediction of chemical-induced toxicity and enable risk-based decision making. The current chapter focuses on the structure, development, assessment, and applications of the AOP and AEP frameworks, illustrated by a case-study on the hepatotoxicity of the metabolites and environmental residues of pesticides.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Food Science / Food Safety & Security, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Agriculture / Sustainable Agriculture
- 1 Introduction
- 2 The structure, development, assessment, andquantifcation of adverse outcome pathways
- 3 The structure and development of aggregateexposure pathways and their integration withadverse outcome pathways
- 4 Applications of adverse exposure pathwayadverseoutcome pathway integration
- 5 Case-study: hepatotoxicity of pesticides
- 6 Application of an adverse exposure pathwayadverse outcome pathway construct for pesticideassessment
- 7 Conclusion
- 8 Where to look for further information
- 9 References