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Table 2 List of acronyms and abbreviations used in this chapter

AA Annual average

ACE Acute-to-chronic Estimation

ACR Acute-to-chronic Ratio

AEV Acute effect value

AF Assessment factor

ANZECC Australia and New Zealand Environment and Conservation Council

ARMCANZ Agriculture and Resource Management Council of Australia

and New Zealand

ASTM American Society for Testing and Materials

BAF Bioaccumulation factor

BC British Columbia

BCF Bioconcentration factor

CAS Chemical Abstract Service

CCC Criterion continuous concentration

CCME Canadian Council of Ministers of the Environment

CDFG California Department of Fish and Game

CEV Chronic effect value

CMC Criterion maximum concentration

CVRWQCB Central Valley Regional Water Quality Control Board

CSTE/EEC Scientific Advisory Committee on Toxicity and Ecotoxicity of

Chemicals/European Economic Community

CWA Clean Water Act

DTA Direct toxicity assessment

ECB European Chemicals Bureau

EC European Commission

EC x Concentration that affects x % of exposed organisms

ECL Environmental concern level

ECOTOC European Centre for Ecotoxicology and Toxicology of Chemicals

ERL Environmental risk level

EINECS European Inventory of Existing Commercial Substances

EqP Equilibrium partitioning

EQS Environmental quality standard

EU European Union

FACR Final acuteto-chronic ratio

FAV Final acute value

FCV Final chronic value

FPV Final plant value

FRV Final residue value

GESAMP Group of Experts on the Scientific Aspects of Marine Protection

GMAV Genus mean acute value

HC x Hazardous concentration potentially harmful to x % of species

ICE Interspecies correlation estimation

IUPAC International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry

KemI Swedish Chemicals Agency

K H Henry's law constant

K ow Octanol-water partition coefficient

K p Solid-water partition coefficient

LC x Concentration lethal to x % of exposed organisms

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