Comparison of four different methods for reliability evaluation of ecotoxicity data: A case study of non-standard test data used in environmental risk assessments of pharmaceutical substances

Environmental Sciences Europe

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Ågerstrand, Marlene ^a   Breitholtz, Magnus ^a   Rudén, Christina ^a  

^a ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

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EID: 79960611586     PISSN: 21904707     EISSN: 21904715     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/2190-4715-23-17     Document Type: Article

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