Are current regulatory log Kow cut-off values fit-for-purpose as a screening tool for bioaccumulation potential in aquatic organisms?

S Gimeno, D Allan, K Paul, P Remuzat… - Regulatory Toxicology …, 2024 - Elsevier
Abstract Persistent, Bioaccumulative and Toxic (PBT) and very Persistent and very
Bioaccumulative (vPvB) are regulatory hazard categories that have been set to manage the …

A tiered assessment strategy for more effective evaluation of bioaccumulation of chemicals in fish

A Lillicrap, T Springer, CR Tyler - Regulatory Toxicology and Pharmacology, 2016 - Elsevier
There is currently limited guidance available for regulators and risk assessors on how to use
data from non-guideline methods when assessing the bioaccumulation potential of a …

Evaluation of the EMA log kow trigger for fish BCF testing based on data for several human pharmaceuticals

LA Constantine, N Burden, T Davidson… - Regulatory Toxicology …, 2024 - Elsevier
Abstract In the European Medicines Agency (EMA)“Guideline for Environmental Risk
Assessment of Medicinal Products for Human Use,” a fish bioconcentration factor (BCF) …

Methods for estimating the bioconcentration factor of ionizable organic chemicals

W Fu, A Franco, S Trapp - Environmental Toxicology and …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
The bioaccumulation potential is an important criterion in risk assessment of chemicals.
Several regressions between bioconcentration factor (BCF) in fish and octanol–water …

How error‐prone bioaccumulation experiments affect the risk assessment of hydrophobic chemicals and what could be improved

J Glüge, BI Escher, M Scheringer - Integrated Environmental …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Bioaccumulation is one of the three criteria for the PBT assessment of chemicals, where P
stands for persistence, B for bioaccumulation, and T for toxicity, which is a cornerstone for …

Including bioconcentration kinetics for the prioritization and interpretation of regulatory aquatic toxicity tests of highly hydrophobic chemicals

JH Kwon, SY Lee, HJ Kang, P Mayer… - … Science & Technology, 2016 - ACS Publications
Worldwide, regulations of chemicals require short-term toxicity data for evaluating hazards
and risks of the chemicals. Current data requirements on the registration of chemicals are …

The Dessau workshop on bioaccumulation: state of the art, challenges and regulatory implications

G Treu, W Drost, U Jöhncke, C Rauert… - Environmental Sciences …, 2015 - Springer
Bioaccumulation plays a vital role in understanding the fate of a substance in the
environment and is key to the regulation of chemicals in several jurisdictions. The current …

Improved method for estimating bioconcentration/bioaccumulation factor from octanol/water partition coefficient

WM Meylan, PH Howard, RS Boethling… - … and Chemistry: An …, 1999 - Wiley Online Library
A compound's bioconcentration factor (BCF) is the most commonly used indicator of its
tendency to accumulate in aquatic organisms from the surrounding medium. Because it is …

A new hazard index of complex mixtures integrates bioconcentration and toxicity to refine the environmental risk assessment of effluents

S Gutiérrez, C Fernández, BI Escher… - Environment international, 2008 - Elsevier
A new methodology to evaluate the overall environmental hazard of unknown mixtures,
based on bioconcentration potential and toxicity, was developed using a combination of two …

Guidance for evaluating in vivo fish bioaccumulation data

TF Parkerton, JA Arnot, AV Weisbrod… - Integrated …, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
Currently, the laboratory‐derived fish bioconcentration factor (BCF) serves as one of the
primary data sources used to assess the potential for a chemical to bioaccumulate …