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Reviews of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology Volume 239

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Attention for Chapter 5004: Prospective Environmental Risk Assessment for Sediment-Bound Organic Chemicals: A Proposal for Tiered Effect Assessment.
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Chapter title
Prospective Environmental Risk Assessment for Sediment-Bound Organic Chemicals: A Proposal for Tiered Effect Assessment.
Chapter number 5004
Book title
Reviews of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology Volume 239
Published in
Reviews of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology, December 2015
DOI 10.1007/398_2015_5004
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Book ISBNs
978-3-31-933971-9, 978-3-31-933972-6
Authors

Diepens, Noël J, Koelmans, Albert A, Baveco, Hans, van den Brink, Paul J, van den Heuvel-Greve, Martine J, Brock, Theo C M, Noël J. Diepens, Albert A. Koelmans, Hans Baveco, Paul J. van den Brink, Martine J. van den Heuvel-Greve, Theo C. M. Brock, Diepens, Noël J., Koelmans, Albert A., van den Brink, Paul J., van den Heuvel-Greve, Martine J., Brock, Theo C. M.

Abstract

A broadly accepted framework for prospective environmental risk assessment (ERA) of sediment-bound organic chemicals is currently lacking. Such a framework requires clear protection goals, evidence-based concepts that link exposure to effects and a transparent tiered-effect assessment. In this paper, we provide a tiered prospective sediment ERA procedure for organic chemicals in sediment, with a focus on the applicable European regulations and the underlying data requirements. Using the ecosystem services concept, we derived specific protection goals for ecosystem service providing units: microorganisms, benthic algae, sediment-rooted macrophytes, benthic invertebrates and benthic vertebrates. Triggers for sediment toxicity testing are discussed.We recommend a tiered approach (Tier 0 through Tier 3). Tier-0 is a cost-effective screening based on chronic water-exposure toxicity data for pelagic species and equilibrium partitioning. Tier-1 is based on spiked sediment laboratory toxicity tests with standard benthic test species and standardised test methods. If comparable chronic toxicity data for both standard and additional benthic test species are available, the Species Sensitivity Distribution (SSD) approach is a more viable Tier-2 option than the geometric mean approach. This paper includes criteria for accepting results of sediment-spiked single species toxicity tests in prospective ERA, and for the application of the SSD approach. We propose micro/mesocosm experiments with spiked sediment, to study colonisation success by benthic organisms, as a Tier-3 option. Ecological effect models can be used to supplement the experimental tiers. A strategy for unifying information from various tiers by experimental work and exposure-and effect modelling is provided.

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Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 14 23%
Student > Bachelor 9 15%
Student > Master 9 15%
Researcher 7 11%
Student > Doctoral Student 4 7%
Other 7 11%
Unknown 11 18%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Environmental Science 20 33%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 11 18%
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science 4 7%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 4 7%
Chemistry 3 5%
Other 5 8%
Unknown 14 23%
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