An assessment of the model of concentration addition for predicting the estrogenic activity of chemical mixtures in wastewater treatment works effluents

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 114, Issue SUPPL.1, 2006, Pages 90-97

  Thorpe, Karen L ^a   Gross Sorokin, Melanie ^b   Johnson, Ian ^c   Brighty, Geoff ^b   Tyler, Charles R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^b ENVIRONMENT AGENCY   (United Kingdom)

^c WRC PLC   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Concentration addition; Effluents; Estradiol; Estrogen; Estrone; Ethinylestradiol; Mixtures; Nonylphenol

Indexed keywords

ESTRADIOL; ESTROGEN;

ARTICLE; DOSE RESPONSE; EVALUATION; FORECASTING; INDUSTRIAL WASTE; METHODOLOGY; OSMOLARITY; THEORETICAL MODEL; WATER POLLUTANT;

DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ESTRADIOL; ESTROGENS; FORECASTING; INDUSTRIAL WASTE; MODELS, THEORETICAL; OSMOLAR CONCENTRATION; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

EID: 33846480915     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.8059     Document Type: Article

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