Environmental risk limits for polychlorinated biphenyls in the Netherlands: Derivation with probabilistic food chain modeling

Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry

Volumn 19, Issue 8, 2000, Pages 2140-2153

  Van Wezel, Annemarie P ^a   Traas, Theo P ^a   Van Der Weiden, Martine E J ^b   Crommentuijn, Trudie H ^a   Sijm, Dick T H M ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT   (Netherlands)

^b Ministry of Housing Spatial Planning and the Environment Netherlands   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Environmental risk limit; Food chain; Polychlorinated biphenyls; Probabilistic

Indexed keywords

POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL;

ECOLOGICAL MODELING; ENVIRONMENTAL RISK; FOOD CHAIN; PCB; POLLUTION EFFECT;

ARTICLE; BIOACCUMULATION; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; FOOD CHAIN; NETHERLANDS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEDIMENT; STATISTICS; TOXICITY TESTING;

NETHERLANDS;

AVES; CELLULAR ORGANISMS; INVERTEBRATA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 0033907961     PISSN: 07307268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/etc.5620190826     Document Type: Article

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