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Document ID (ISN)60231
CIS number 93-942
Year 1993
Convention or series no. ECETOC Technical Report No.51
Title Environmental hazard assessment of substances
Bibliographic information European Centre for Ecotoxicology and Toxicology of Chemicals, Avenue E. Van Nieuwenhuyse 4, Boîte 6, 1160 Bruxelles, Belgium, Jan. 1993. 92p. 46 ref.
Abstract This report describes the development of a process for the environmental hazard assessment of substances, including principles and practical approaches. The assessment of whether a substance presents a hazard to environmental organisms is based on a comparison of the predicted environmental concentration (PEC) with the predicted no effect concentration (PNEC) to organisms in ecosystems. In this approach, the estimation of PEC values is based on exposure model calculations and PNEC values on toxicological data. It was demonstrated that, for the limited number of substances tested and using PNEC values for aquatic organisms only, the proposed approach represents a workable system for the aquatic environment.
Descriptors (primary) harmful substances; environmental pollution; hazard evaluation
Descriptors (secondary) exposure evaluation; prediction of concentration; mathematical models; ecotoxicology
Document type E - Books, reports, proceedings
Country / State or ProvinceBelgium
Subject(s) Toxic and dangerous substances
Broad subject area(s) Chemical safety
Browse category(ies) Environmental pollution
Risk evaluation