A rule-based screening environmental risk assessment tool derived from EUSES

Chemosphere

Volumn 58, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 1169-1176

  Verdonck, Frederik A M ^a   Boeije, Geert ^b   Vandenberghe, Veronique ^a   Comber, Mike ^c   De Wolf, Watze ^d   Feijtel, Tom ^b   Holt, Martin ^e   Koch, Volker ^f   Lecloux, André ^g   Siebel Sauer, Angela ^h   Vanrolleghem, Peter A ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b PROCTER AND GAMBLE COMPANY   (United States)

^c EXXONMOBIL UPSTREAM RESEARCH COMPANY   (United States)

^d DUPONT COMPANY   (United States)

^e European Centre for Ecotoxicology and Toxicology of Chemicals   (Belgium)

^f CLARIANT PRODUKTE DEUTSCHLAND GMBH   (Germany)

^g Euro Chlor   (Belgium)

^h BASF SE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Chemical; Exposure; Lookup table; REACH; Response plots; Sensitivity analysis

Indexed keywords

LAWS AND LEGISLATION; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOCIAL ASPECTS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

CHEMICAL RELEASE; ENVIRONMENTAL RISK ASSESSMENT TOOL; RISK CHARACTERIZATION RATIOS (RCR);

ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT;

CHEMICAL COMPOUND; RISK ASSESSMENT;

AIR POLLUTION; ARTICLE; ECOTOXICITY; ENVIRONMENT; POLLUTION; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCREENING; SOIL POLLUTION; WATER POLLUTION;

EID: 12744253305     PISSN: 00456535     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2004.09.060     Document Type: Article

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