Comparative rapid toxicity screening of commercial and potential "green" plasticizers using bioluminescent bacteria

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 51, Issue 35, 2012, Pages 11555-11560

  Segura, Pedro A ^a   Kaplan, Pearl ^a   Erythropel, Hanno C ^a   Yargeau, Viviane ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

1 ,3 PROPANEDIOL; 1 ,4-BUTANEDIOL; ALKYL CHAIN; ALKYL CHAIN LENGTHS; BIODEGRADATION EXPERIMENTS; BIOLUMINESCENT BACTERIA; COMMERCIAL PRODUCTS; DEVELOPMENT STAGES; INHIBITION ASSAYS; MALEATE; MICROTOX; STRUCTURAL FEATURE; VIBRIO FISCHERI;

BIOLUMINESCENCE; PLASTICIZERS; REINFORCED PLASTICS; SOLVENTS; TOXICITY;

BIODEGRADABLE POLYMERS;

EID: 84865847474     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: 15205045     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ie300875g     Document Type: Article

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