The newly proposed EU risk assessment concept for the sediment compartment

Journal of Soils and Sediments

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 105-110

  Riedhammer, Caroline ^a   Schwarz Schulz, Beatrice ^a  

^a UMWELTBUNDESAMT   (Germany)

Author keywords

3,4 DCA; Bioavaliability; Chironomus sp.; DODMAC; Equilibrium partitioning method; Lumbricutut variegatus; Risk assessment; Sediment tests

Indexed keywords

CHIRONOMUS SP.;

EID: 0006039971     PISSN: 14390108     EISSN: 16147480     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/bf02987715     Document Type: Article

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