Toxicity assessment strategies, data requirements, and risk assessment approaches to derive health based guidance values for non-relevant metabolites of plant protection products

Regulatory Toxicology and Pharmacology

Volumn 56, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 135-142

  Dekant, Wolfgang ^a   Melching Kollmuß, Stephanie ^b   Kalberlah, Fritz ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b BASF SE   (Germany)

^c FoBig   (Germany)

Author keywords

Drinking water; Environmental degradation; Plant protection products; Testing strategies; Toxicity testing

Indexed keywords

DRINKING WATER; PESTICIDE; WATER POLLUTANT;

ANIMAL TESTING ALTERNATIVE; ARTICLE; BIODEGRADATION; BIOTRANSFORMATION; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); DEVELOPMENTAL SCREENING; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN; FEMALE FERTILITY; GENOTOXICITY; HEALTH HAZARD; HORMONE ACTION; HUMAN; MALE FERTILITY; MAMMAL; METABOLITE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; REFERENCE VALUE; REPRODUCTIVE TOXICITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; TERATOGENICITY; TOXICITY TESTING; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER CONTENT; WATER QUALITY; WATER STANDARD; ANALYSIS; ANIMAL; FEMALE; MALE; METABOLISM; PLANT; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PROCEDURES; STANDARDS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER POLLUTANT; WATER SUPPLY;

ANIMALS; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PLANTS; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; RISK ASSESSMENT; TOXICITY TESTS; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; WATER PURIFICATION; WATER SUPPLY;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 76849109489     PISSN: 02732300     EISSN: 10960295     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yrtph.2009.10.003     Document Type: Article

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