Systematic Handling of Environmental Fate Data for Model Development─Illustrated for the Case of Biodegradation Half-Life Data

Abstract

The assessment of environmental hazard indicators such as persistence, mobility, toxicity, or bioaccumulation of chemicals often results in highly variable experimental outcomes. Persistence is particularly affected due to a multitude of influencing environmental factors, with biodegradation experiments resulting in half-lives spanning several orders of magnitude. Also, half-lives may lie beyond the limits of reliable half-life quantification, and the number of available data points per substance may vary considerably, requiring a sta Show more