SCRAM: A scoring and ranking system for persistent, bioaccumulative, and toxic substances for the North American Great Lakes

Environmental Science and Pollution Research

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 116-121

  Snyder, Erin M ^a   Snyder, Shane A ^a   Giesy, John P ^a   Blonde, Shari A ^b   Hurlburt, Gary K ^b   Summer, Cheryl L ^b   Mitchell, Rachel R ^b   Bush, Dennis M ^b  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Surface Water Quality Division   (United States)

Author keywords

Acute toxicity; Bioaccumulation; Chemical scoring and ranking; Chronic toxicity; Hazard; North American Great Lakes; Persistence; Priority pollutants; SCRAM (Chemical Scoring and Ranking Assessment Model); Uncertainty; Water pollution

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034121413     PISSN: 09441344     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1065/espr199910.010     Document Type: Review

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