October 15, 2020 by Graham Merrington
Graham, Adam and Dean have just published the paper "Perspectives on Relevancy Assessment for Non Standard Ecotoxicity Data in Environment Quality Standard derivation: Examples for Diclofenac" in Bulletin of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology.
The paper focuses upon relevancy assessment of complex and non-standard ecotoxicity data for use in EQS derivation, which can be particularly challenging. These types of data are becoming more common in environmental assessments of pharmaceuticals, and often require specialist knowledge to ensure consistent and rigorous relevancy evaluation. In this work we applied broadly accepted relevancy criteria to a series of non-standard ecotoxicity studies on diclofenac, focusing on aspects that should be accounted for in studies used in EQS derivation. The key recommendations from the work are that:
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