An ecological risk assessment for triclosan in the terrestrial environment

Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry

Volumn 28, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 1546-1556

  Reiss, Richard ^a   Lewis, Gavin ^b   Griffin, John ^a  

^a EXPONENT INC   (United States)

^b Simpson House   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Antimicrobial; Risk assessment; Terrestrial; Triclosan

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL SOILS; ANTIMICROBIAL; ANTIMICROBIAL FUNCTIONS; ECOLOGICAL RISK ASSESSMENT; EUROPEAN UNION; FIELD MEASUREMENT; POTENTIAL EXPOSURE; QUARTZ SAND; SANDY LOAMS; SOIL MICRO-ORGANISMS; TERRESTRIAL; TERRESTRIAL ENVIRONMENTS; TERRESTRIAL ORGANISMS; TERRESTRIAL PLANTS; TRICLOSAN;

ETHERS; MAMMALS; MICROORGANISMS; OXIDE MINERALS; QUARTZ; RISK MANAGEMENT; RISK PERCEPTION; SEWAGE SLUDGE; SEWAGE TREATMENT; SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANTS; SOILS; WASTEWATER; WASTEWATER RECLAMATION; WASTEWATER TREATMENT;

RISK ASSESSMENT;

AGRICULTURAL CHEMICAL; TRICLOSAN;

ANTIBIOTICS; ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); EARTHWORM; EUROPEAN UNION; PLANT; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SLUDGE; SOIL AMENDMENT; SOIL MICROORGANISM; TROPHIC CASCADE; WATER TREATMENT;

ACUTE TOXICITY; AGRICULTURAL MANAGEMENT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BIOREMEDIATION; BIRD; CONTROLLED STUDY; CUCUMBER; DISSOCIATION CONSTANT; EARTHWORM; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EUROPEAN UNION; FEMALE; FISH; LAND BIOME; MAMMAL; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PARTITION COEFFICIENT; PHOTOLYSIS; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; PHYTOTOXICITY; PLANT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RISK ASSESSMENT; SANDY LOAM; SLUDGE; SOIL MICROFLORA; SOIL POLLUTION; TERRESTRIAL SPECIES; VAPOR PRESSURE; WASTE WATER MANAGEMENT; ANIMAL; ANNELID WORM; CHEMISTRY; DRUG EFFECT; ECOLOGY; FOOD CHAIN; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HAMSTER; MICROBIOLOGY; SEEDLING; SEWAGE; SOIL POLLUTANT; TOXICITY TESTING;

AVES; CUCUMIS SATIVUS; MAMMALIA;

ANIMALS; BIRDS; CRICETINAE; ECOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FISHES; FOOD CHAIN; MICE; OLIGOCHAETA; RATS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEEDLING; SEWAGE; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY; SOIL POLLUTANTS; TOXICITY TESTS; TRICLOSAN;

EID: 69249229800     PISSN: 07307268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1897/08-250.1     Document Type: Article

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