Opinion of the Scientific Panel on Plant Health, Plant Protection Products and their Residues (PPR) on a request from EFSA related to the assessment of the acute and chronic risk to aquatic organisms with regard to the possibility of lowering the uncertainty factor if additional species were tested

EFSA Journal

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2006, Pages

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Author keywords

aquatic risk assessment; assessment factors; extrapolation; level of protection; pesticides; plant protection products; safety factors; species sensitivity distribution (SSD); standard toxicity tests

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EID: 85078374876     PISSN: None     EISSN: 18314732     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2903/j.efsa.2006.301     Document Type: Article

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