Complex
environmental mixtures consist of hundreds to thousands
of unknown and unregulated organic compounds that may have toxicological
relevance, including transformation products (TPs) of anthropogenic
organic pollutants. Nontargeted analysis and suspect screening analysis
offer analytical approaches for potentially identifying these toxic
transformation products. However, additional tools and strategies
are needed to reduce the number of chemicals of interest and focus
analytical efforts on chemicals that may pose risks to humans and
the environment. This brief review highlights recent developments
in this field and suggests an integrated framework that incorporates
complementary instrumental techniques, computational chemistry, and
toxicity analysis, for prioritizing and identifying toxic TPs in the
environment.