Application of chemical toxicity distributions to ecotoxicology data requirements under REACH

Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry

Volumn 30, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 1943-1954

  Williams, E Spencer ^a   Berninger, Jason P ^a   Brooks, Bryan W ^a  

^a BAYLOR UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Chemical toxicity distribution; Probabilistic ecological hazard assessment; REACH; Read across

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCHOLINESTERASE; CHEMICAL CLASS; CHEMICAL TOXICITY; DAPHNIA MAGNA; DATA GAP; DATA REQUIREMENTS; DATA SOURCE; ECO-TOXICOLOGY; ECOLOGICAL HAZARDS; ECOLOGICAL RECEPTORS; ECOTOXICITY; ECOTOXICITY DATA; ECOTOXICOLOGICAL; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL RISK ASSESSMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL SAFETY; EUROPEAN UNION; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; PIMEPHALES PROMELAS; POINT VALUE; PRIORITIZATION; PROBABILISTIC DISTRIBUTION; REACH; READ-ACROSS; TOXICITY VALUES; U.S. ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY;

AIR POLLUTION CONTROL; ECOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY; HAZARDS; INDICATORS (CHEMICAL); PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; RATING; RISK ASSESSMENT; SURFACE ACTIVE AGENTS;

TOXICITY;

CHOLINESTERASE INHIBITOR; SURFACTANT;

CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DATA ACQUISITION; DATA SET; DATABASE; ECOTOXICOLOGY; EUROPEAN UNION; INHIBITOR; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; PRIORITIZATION; RESEARCH WORK; SURFACTANT; TOXICITY; VERTEBRATE;

ARTICLE; DAPHNIA; ECOTOXICOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; NONHUMAN; PIMEPHALES PROMELAS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT;

ANIMALS; CHOLINESTERASE INHIBITORS; CYPRINIDAE; DAPHNIA; ECOTOXICOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION; EUROPEAN UNION; HUMANS; PESTICIDES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SURFACE-ACTIVE AGENTS; TOXICITY TESTS; UNITED STATES; UNITED STATES ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY;

UNITED STATES;

DAPHNIA MAGNA; PIMEPHALES PROMELAS; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 79958210957     PISSN: 07307268     EISSN: 15528618     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/etc.583     Document Type: Article

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