Sarah E. Crawford

TL;DR: A method that reads across from existing EQS and includes additional mixture considerations with the goal that the derived effect-based trigger values (EBT) indicate acceptable risk for complex mixtures as they occur in surface water.

TL;DR: In this article, the potential dioxin-like effects of microplastics bound DLCs was investigated using chemical analysis and in vitro bioassays, and it was found that styrofoams possessed significantly higher DLCs than other coastal or open ocean plastic particles, due to the presence of additives and greater sorption ability of expanded polystyrene.

TL;DR: The integration of new testing methods and strategies in product development, testing and regulation stages are presented with examples of the application of in silico, omics and in vitro methods.

TL;DR: The sediment-solution partition coefficients (Kd) of U were investigated for nine uncontaminated freshwater sediments with a wide range of physicochemical characteristics over an environmentally relevant pH range to improve the understanding and assessment of U sorption to field sediment.

TL;DR: NP, E1, E2 and ethynylestradiol (EE2) were remobilized from Luppe sediment when subjected to turbulent conditions, such as in a flood event, and were readily bioavailable at ecotoxicologically relevant concentrations.