Comparison of nanosilver and ionic silver toxicity in Daphnia magna and Pimephales promelas

SM Hoheisel, S Diamond… - … toxicology and chemistry, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
The increasing use of nanosilver in consumer products and the likelihood of environmental
exposure warrant investigation into the toxicity of nanosilver to aquatic organisms. A series …

A tiered ecological risk assessment of three chlorophenols in Chinese surface waters

X Jin, J Gao, J Zha, Y Xu, Z Wang, JP Giesy… - … Science and Pollution …, 2012 - Springer
Introduction The ecological risks posed by three chlorophenols (CPs), 2, 4-dichlorophenol
(2, 4-DCP), 2, 4, 6-trichlorophenol (2, 4, 6-TCP), and pentachlorophenol (PCP) in Chinese …

Comparison of population level and individual level endpoints to evaluate ecological risk of chemicals

N Hanson, JD Stark - Environmental science & technology, 2012 - ACS Publications
Ecological risk assessments (ERA) of chemicals are often based on mortality and
reproduction of individuals. To protect populations, fixed safety factors are applied to the …

[HTML][HTML] Risk assessment of endocrine active chemicals: Identifying chemicals of regulatory concern

R Bars, I Fegert, M Gross, D Lewis, L Weltje… - Regulatory Toxicology …, 2012 - Elsevier
The European regulation on plant protection products (1107/2009)(EC, 2009a), the
revisions to the biocides Directive (COM [2009] 267)(EC, 2009b), and the regulation …

Tissue‐based risk assessment of cyclic volatile methyl siloxanes

AD Redman, E Mihaich, K Woodburn… - Environmental …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Cyclic volatile methyl siloxanes (cVMS) are important consumer materials that are used in
personal care products and industrial applications. These compounds have gained …

Discrepancies in the acute versus chronic toxicity of compounds with a designated narcotic mechanism

N Dom, M Penninck, D Knapen, R Blust - Chemosphere, 2012 - Elsevier
In this study, it was illustrated that even for certain simple organic compounds with a
designated mode of action (MOA)(ie narcotic toxicity) unexpected differences in acute and …

Assessment of aquatic experimental versus predicted and extrapolated chronic toxicity data of four structural analogues

N Dom, D Knapen, R Blust - Chemosphere, 2012 - Elsevier
The present study was developed to assess the chronic toxicity predictions and
extrapolations for a set of chlorinated anilines (aniline (AN), 4-chloroaniline (CA), 3, 5 …

Considerations and criteria for the incorporation of mechanistic sublethal endpoints into environmental risk assessment for biologically active compounds

RA Brain, BW Brooks - … Pharmaceuticals in the Environment: Current and …, 2012 - Springer
Awareness about the presence and unintended consequence of biologically active organic
contaminants in the environment was largely borne out of seminal observational works …

The added value of whole effluent assessment for produced water discharges in the offshore industry

EW Roex, LR Henriquez, M Horn - SPE International Conference and …, 2012 - onepetro.org
Produced water from offshore installations is the largest discharge in the marine
environment. The composition of produced water can be very complex and may vary in time …

Estimating brood‐specific reproductive inhibition potency in aquatic toxicity testing

J Zhang, A John Bailer, JT Oris - Environmetrics, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Effluents may contain chemicals that impact the mortality, growth, or reproduction of
organisms in aquatic systems. A common endpoint analyzed in reproduction toxicology is …