Environmental quality criteria for organic chemicals predicted from internal effect concentrations and a food web model

Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry

Volumn 23, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 2518-2527

  Traas, Theo P ^a   Van Wezel, Annemarie P ^a   Hermens, Joop L M ^b   Zorn, Mathilde ^b   Van Hattum, Albertus G M ^c   Van Leeuwen, Cornelis J ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT   (Netherlands)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Bioaccumulation; Critical body residue; Food web model; Organic chemicals; Risk assessment

Indexed keywords

HYDROPHOBICITY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SEDIMENTS; TOXIC MATERIALS; TOXICITY;

ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY CRITERIA (EQC); INTERNAL EFFECT CONCENTRATIONS (IEC);

ORGANIC CHEMICALS;

ACETYLCHOLINESTERASE; AROMATIC HYDROCARBON RECEPTOR; CHOLINESTERASE INHIBITOR; CONVULSANT AGENT; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL;

BIOACCUMULATION; ECOTOXICOLOGY; FOOD WEB; MODELING; ORGANIC POLLUTANT; TOXICITY;

ARTICLE; BIOACCUMULATION; CALCULATION; CALIBRATION; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY CRITERIA; FOOD WEB; HYDROPHOBICITY; INTERNAL EFFECT CONCENTRATION; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; NO OBSERVED EFFECT CONCENTRATION; ORGANIC CHEMISTRY; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTOR BINDING; SEDIMENT; WATER ANALYSIS;

ANIMALS; BODY BURDEN; CALIBRATION; FOOD CHAIN; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NO-OBSERVED-ADVERSE-EFFECT LEVEL; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS; RISK ASSESSMENT; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; WATER POLLUTANTS;

EID: 4644241212     PISSN: 07307268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1897/03-441     Document Type: Article

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