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The authors thank BP4NTA members (www.nontargetedanalysis.org/membership-list), particularly those involved in BP4NTA leadership and the 2021-2022 SRT Committee (Ruth Marfil-Vega, Jonathan Challis, Kristin Favela, Yong-Lai Feng, Thomas Letzel, Kelsey Miller, Tarun Anumol, Sara Nason, Seth Newton, Benjamin Place, and Natalia Soares Quinete). We also acknowledge 2020-2021 SRT Committee members involved in the original evaluation of the SRT (Piero Gardinali, Manuel Pristner, Lyne Sabourin, Mark Sumarah, and Benedikt Warth). We thank authors, editors, and reviewers who have adopted the SRT. We particularly thank JESEE’s editor-in-chief, Elaine Hubal, for her support of SRT adoption. Reviews by Jacqueline Bangma and Charles Lowe greatly improved this article.
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Phillips, A.L., Peter, K.T., Sobus, J.R. et al. Standardizing non-targeted analysis reporting to advance exposure science and environmental epidemiology. J Expo Sci Environ Epidemiol 33, 501–504 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41370-022-00490-1
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