Environmental release, environmental concentrations, and ecological risk of N,N-diethyl-m-toluamide (DEET)

Integrated Environmental Assessment and Management

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 135-166

  Aronson, Dallas ^a   Weeks, John ^b   Meylan, Bill ^a   Guiney, Patrick D ^b   Howard, Philip H ^a  

^a SYRACUSE RESEARCH CORPORATION   (United States)

^b S C Johnson & Son Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

DEET; Ecological risk assessment; Environment release; Surface water; Uses; Wastewater treatment

Indexed keywords

DIETHYLTOLUAMIDE; INSECT REPELLENT;

AIR POLLUTANT; ANIMAL; AQUATIC SPECIES; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; COLINUS; CRUSTACEA; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG EFFECT; FISH; GREEN ALGA; METABOLISM; POLLUTANT; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; RIVER; SEWAGE; UNITED STATES; WATER POLLUTANT;

AIR POLLUTANTS; ANIMALS; AQUATIC ORGANISMS; CHLOROPHYTA; COLINUS; CRUSTACEA; DEET; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; FISHES; INSECT REPELLENTS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; RIVERS; UNITED STATES; WASTE DISPOSAL, FLUID; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

EID: 84859724597     PISSN: 15513793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ieam.271     Document Type: Article

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