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• Environmental effect assessment for sexual endocrine-disrupting chemicals: Fish testing strategy.

  Current standard testing and assessment tools are not designed to identify specific and biologically highly sensitive modes of action of chemicals, su…

  Authors: Thomas Knacker, Melanie Boettcher, Tobias Frische, Hans Rufli, Hans-Christian Stolzenberg, Matthias Teigeler, Sabine Zok, Thomas Braunbeck, Christoph Schäfers

  Source: Integrated environmental assessment and management. 2010 Oct

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• Thresholds of toxicological concern for endocrine active substances in the aquatic environment.

  The threshold of toxicological concern (TTC) concept proposes that an exposure threshold value can be derived for chemicals, below which no significan…

  Authors: Melanie Gross, Klaus Daginnus, Genevieve Deviller, Watze de Wolf, Stephen Dungey, Corrado Galli, Anne Gourmelon, Miriam Jacobs, Peter Matthiessen, Christian Micheletti,…

  Source: Integrated environmental assessment and management. 2010 Jan

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• Multi-criteria decision analysis of test endpoints for detecting the effects of endocrine active substances in fish full life cycle tests.

  Fish full life cycle (FFLC) tests are increasingly required in the ecotoxicological assessment of endocrine active substances. However, FFLC tests hav…

  Authors: Mark Crane, Melanie Gross, Peter Matthiessen, Gerald T Ankley, Stephen Axford, Poul Bjerregaard, Ross Brown, Peter Chapman, Michael Dorgeloh, Malyka Galay-Burgos,…

  Source: Integrated environmental assessment and management. 2010 Jul

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