Prioritizing chemicals and data requirements for screening-level exposure and risk assessment

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 120, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 1565-1570

  Arnot, Jon A ^a   Brown, Trevor N ^a   Wania, Frank ^a   Breivik, Knut ^b,c   McLachlan, Michael S ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE FOR AIR RESEARCH   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^d STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Exposure; High throughput; Organic chemicals; Risk; Uncertainty analysis

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL CHEMICAL; ORGANIC COMPOUND;

ARTICLE; BIOREMEDIATION; BIOTRANSFORMATION; CASE STUDY; DRUG ADSORPTION; DRUG DISTRIBUTION; DRUG EXCRETION; DRUG METABOLISM; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; GLACIAL MASS BALANCE; HALF LIFE TIME; HUMAN; METRIC SYSTEM; MULTIMEDIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; UNCERTAINTY;

ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; HUMANS; MODELS, CHEMICAL; ORGANIC CHEMICALS; RISK ASSESSMENT; UNCERTAINTY;

EID: 84868560846     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.1205355     Document Type: Article

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