Relationship of approaches and a tiered methodology for screening chemicals in the context of long-range transport

Chemosphere

Volumn 44, Issue 7, 2001, Pages 1617-1631

  Pennington, David W ^a  

^a U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

Author keywords

Chemical screening; Long range transport (LRT); Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

DATA ACQUISITION; DATA REDUCTION; DEGRADATION; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; INITIATORS (CHEMICAL); MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS; SOILS;

TIERED METHODOLOGY;

SCREENING;

ENVIRONMENTAL CHEMICAL; OCTANOL; WATER;

CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; LONG RANGE TRANSPORT; METHODOLOGY;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); DEGRADATION; HALF LIFE TIME; METHODOLOGY; PARTITION COEFFICIENT; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; SCREENING; TRANSPORT KINETICS;

AIR MOVEMENTS; BIODEGRADATION, ENVIRONMENTAL; CHEMISTRY, PHYSICAL; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; FORECASTING; GUIDELINES; HALF-LIFE; RISK ASSESSMENT; WATER MOVEMENTS; XENOBIOTICS;

EID: 0034887185     PISSN: 00456535     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0045-6535(00)00529-4     Document Type: Article

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