A screening level index for assessing the impacts of veterinary medicines on dung flies

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 41, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 2630-2635

  Boxall, Alistair B A ^a,b   Sherratt, Tom N ^c   Pudner, Victoria ^a   Pope, Louise J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^b CENTRAL SCIENCE LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^c CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DRUG PRODUCTS; ECOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; RISK ASSESSMENT; TOXICITY;

DUNG FLIES; IVERMECTIN INJECTION; VETERINARY PARASITICIDES;

LIVING SYSTEMS STUDIES;

ANTIPARASITIC AGENT; BENZIMIDAZOLE DERIVATIVE; DORAMECTIN; EPRINOMECTIN; FENBENDAZOLE; IVERMECTIN; MACROLIDE; MORANTEL; OXFENDAZOLE; PERMETHRIN; VETERINARY DRUG;

DRUG PRODUCTS; ECOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; LIVING SYSTEMS STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; TOXICITY;

ASSESSMENT METHOD; FLY; IVERMECTIN; MEDICINE; PARASITE; PARASITE CONTROL;

ARTICLE; DRUG USE; ECOTOXICITY; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; FLY; LIFE CYCLE; MANURE; NONHUMAN; POLLUTION; PREDICTION; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCREENING;

ANIMALS; ANTIPARASITIC AGENTS; DIPTERA; ENGLAND; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; IVERMECTIN; MODELS, THEORETICAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; TOXICITY TESTS; VETERINARY DRUGS;

ENGLAND; EURASIA; EUROPE; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

ANIMALIA; DIPTERA; HEXAPODA; MUSCIDAE; SCATHOPHAGIDAE;

EID: 34247128784     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es0618705     Document Type: Article

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