Focks, A. and Grisoni, F. and Barsi, A. and Vighi, M. (2018) Predictive models in ecotoxicology: bridging the gap between scientific progress and regulatory applicability. Foreword. Integrated Environmental Assessment and Management, 14 (5). pp. 601-603. ISSN 15513777
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In the last decades, modelling approaches in the context of environmental risk assessment for chemicals have been under the spotlight of researchers in academia, regulatory bodies and industry. This is because mathematical and simulation models allow to gain deeper mechanistic understanding of fate and effect processes of organic contaminants in the environment. In addition, models make it possible to predict the toxic effects of compounds along with other relevant properties, such as biodegradability, uptake and bioaccumulation. Mathematical and simulation models have here unbeatable advantages: once established and tested, they allow the prediction of behaviour and effects of contaminants for large compound libraries and for different environmental conditions, while, at the same time, reducing animal testing, experimentation costs and time efforts. Hence, the application of models allows to increase the number of tested environmental scenarios, as well as the level of environmental safety, at lower monetary and ethical costs.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Subjects: | Q Science > QS Ecology |
| Depositing User: | Marco Vighi |
| Date Deposited: | 20 Mar 2018 09:48 |
| Last Modified: | 23 Mar 2020 09:42 |
| URI: | http://eprints.imdea-agua.org:13000/id/eprint/881 |
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