To be or not to be degraded: in defense of persistence assessment of chemicals
Andreas Schäffer, Kathrin Fenner, Zhanyun Wang, Martin Scheringer
Abstract
nice-to-have) for degradation studies need to be recognized and appreciated. We further advocate for enhancing consistency between regulatory persistence assessments ("one substance-one assessment"), which is currently not the case.
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Persistence (discontinuity)HazardRisk assessmentRisk analysis (engineering)Hazard analysisEnvironmental risk assessmentBiochemical engineeringComputer scienceBusinessBiologyEcologyEngineeringReliability engineeringComputer securityGeotechnical engineeringPesticide and Herbicide Environmental StudiesToxic Organic Pollutants ImpactEnvironmental Toxicology and Ecotoxicology