Development of a bioanalytical test battery for water quality monitoring: Fingerprinting identified micropollutants and their contribution to effects in surface water

PA Neale, R Altenburger, S Aït-Aïssa, F Brion, W Busch… - Water research, 2017 - Elsevier
Surface waters can contain a diverse range of organic pollutants, including pesticides,
pharmaceuticals and industrial compounds. While bioassays have been used for water …

Bioassay battery interlaboratory investigation of emerging contaminants in spiked water extracts–towards the implementation of bioanalytical monitoring tools in water …

C Di Paolo, R Ottermanns, S Keiter, S Ait-Aissa… - Water research, 2016 - Elsevier
Bioassays are particularly useful tools to link the chemical and ecological assessments in
water quality monitoring. Different methods cover a broad range of toxicity mechanisms in …

[HTML][HTML] Advancements in effect-based surface water quality assessment

ML De Baat, R Van der Oost, GH Van der Lee… - Water research, 2020 - Elsevier
Legally-prescribed chemical monitoring is unfit for determining the pollution status of surface
waters, and there is a need for improved assessment methods that consider the aggregated …

Linking in vitro effects and detected organic micropollutants in surface water using mixture-toxicity modeling

PA Neale, S Ait-Aissa, W Brack, N Creusot… - … science & technology, 2015 - ACS Publications
Surface water can contain countless organic micropollutants, and targeted chemical
analysis alone may only detect a small fraction of the chemicals present. Consequently …

Benchmarking organic micropollutants in wastewater, recycled water and drinking water with in vitro bioassays

BI Escher, M Allinson, R Altenburger… - … science & technology, 2014 - ACS Publications
Thousands of organic micropollutants and their transformation products occur in water.
Although often present at low concentrations, individual compounds contribute to mixture …

Future water quality monitoring: improving the balance between exposure and toxicity assessments of real-world pollutant mixtures

R Altenburger, W Brack, RM Burgess, W Busch… - Environmental Sciences …, 2019 - Springer
Environmental water quality monitoring aims to provide the data required for safeguarding
the environment against adverse biological effects from multiple chemical contamination …

Micropollutants in European rivers: A mode of action survey to support the development of effect‐based tools for water monitoring

W Busch, S Schmidt, R Kühne… - Environmental …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Environmental quality monitoring of water resources is challenged with providing the basis
for safeguarding the environment against adverse biological effects from exposure to …

A critical review on quantitative evaluation of aqueous toxicity in water quality assessment

L Zhang, Y Zhang, M Zhu, L Chen, B Wu - Chemosphere, 2023 - Elsevier
Conventional chemical techniques have inherent limitations in detecting unknown chemical
substances in water. As a result, effect-based methods have emerged as a viable alternative …

[HTML][HTML] Mixture effects in samples of multiple contaminants–An inter-laboratory study with manifold bioassays

R Altenburger, M Scholze, W Busch, BI Escher… - Environment …, 2018 - Elsevier
Chemicals in the environment occur in mixtures rather than as individual entities.
Environmental quality monitoring thus faces the challenge to comprehensively assess a …

[HTML][HTML] Effect-based nationwide surface water quality assessment to identify ecotoxicological risks

ML De Baat, MHS Kraak, R Van der Oost, P De Voogt… - Water research, 2019 - Elsevier
A large portion of the toxic effects observed in surface waters cannot be attributed to
compounds regularly measured by water authorities. Hence, there is an urgent need for an …