Metabolomics in the wild: research opportunities, challenges, and regulatory potential for effects-based environmental monitoring

Key Points

• The aim is to explore the use of metabolomics for monitoring environmental effects and informing regulations.
• Integration of metabolomics with chemistry and ecology
• Field-based detection of biological responses
• Focus on complex contaminant mixtures in real ecosystems
• Demonstrated capability for early detection of biological responses to contaminants
• Support for effects-based monitoring in environmental assessments
• Potential to enhance regulatory decision-making processes