European risk assessment of LAS in agricultural soil revisited: Species sensitivity distribution and risk estimates

Chemosphere

Volumn 69, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 880-892

  Jensen, John ^a   Smith, Stephen R ^b   Krogh, Paul Henning ^a   Versteeg, Donald J ^c   Temara, Ali ^c  

^a Section for Nature Conservation   (Denmark)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c PROCTER AND GAMBLE COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

Detergents; Ecotoxicity; PEC; PNEC; Sewage sludge

Indexed keywords

CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL); RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SEWAGE SLUDGE; SORPTION; TOXICITY;

LINEAR ALKYLBENZENE SULPHONATE; STABILISATION PROCESS; WATER HARDNESS;

SOIL SURVEYS;

ALKYLBENZENESULFONIC ACID; DETERGENT;

CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL); RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SEWAGE SLUDGE; SOIL SURVEYS; SORPTION; TOXICITY;

AGRICULTURAL SOIL; BIODEGRADATION; DETERGENT; ECOTOXICOLOGY; ORGANIC POLLUTANT; RISK ASSESSMENT; SLUDGE; SOIL AMENDMENT; SOIL MICROORGANISM;

AGRICULTURE; ARTICLE; ECOTOXICOLOGY; LAUNDRY; NONHUMAN; PLANT ECOLOGY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SLUDGE; SLUDGE STABILIZATION; SOIL MICROFLORA; SOIL POLLUTION; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION; WATER HARDNESS; WESTERN EUROPE;

EURASIA; EUROPE; WESTERN EUROPE;

INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 34548735224     PISSN: 00456535     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2007.07.029     Document Type: Article

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