ArticleEnvironmental science and pollution research international2016
From laboratory to environmental conditions: a new approach for chemical's biodegradability assessment.
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- Modernizing persistence-bioaccumulation-toxicity (PBT) assessment with high throughput animal-free methods.Archives of toxicology · 2023Article
- Scientific concepts and methods for moving persistence assessments into the 21st century.Integrated environmental assessment and management · 2022Review
- Biotransformation of Chemicals at the Water-Sediment Interface-Toward a Robust Simulation Study Setup.ACS environmental Au · 2021Article
- Association between Aquatic Micropollutant Dissipation and River Sediment Bacterial Communities.Environmental science & technology · 2020Article
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- Biodegradation tests of mercaptocarboxylic acids, their esters, related divalent sulfur compounds and mercaptans.Environmental science and pollution research international · 2018Article
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Abstract
With thousands of organic chemicals released every day into our environment, Europe and other continents are confronted with increased risk of health and environmental problems. Even if a strict regulation such as REgistration, Authorization and restriction of CHemicals (REACH) is imposed and followed by industry to ensure that they prove the harmlessness of their substances, not all testing procedures are designed to cope with the complexity of the environment. This is especially true for the evaluation of persistence through biodegradability assessment guidelines. Our new approach has been to adapt "in the lab" biodegradability assessment to the environmental conditions and model the probability for a biodegradation test to be positive in the form of a logistic function of both the temperature and the viable cell density. Here, a proof of this new concept is proposed with the establishment of tri-dimensional biodegradability profiles of six chemicals (sodium benzoate, 4-nitrophenol, diethylene glycol, 2,4,5-trichlorophenol, atrazine, and glyphosate) between 4 to 30 °C and 10(4) to 10(8) cells ml(-1) as can be found in environmental compartments in time and space. The results show a significant increase of the predictive power of existing screening lab-scale tests designed for soluble substances. This strategy can be complementary to those current testing strategies with the creation of new indicators to quantify environmental persistence using lab-scale tests.
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