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Résumé :
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Metals toxicology, environmental chemistry, chemical fate modeling, and regulatory practice converge in this reassessment of the scientific and engineering basis for regulating metals in aquatic environments. In this 1996 SETAC - sponsored workshop, forty participants from academia, government, and industry reached consensus that a departure is needed from purely observational and empirical evaluation of organism response to metal exposure. Instead, sound permitting decisions demand input from mathematical models that integrate fundamental changes in target tissue with site-specific metal chemistry and link to receiving water exposure models. Reassessment of metals criteria for aquatic life protection offers expert guidance and significant recommendations toward the development of a workable methodology for assessing the effects of metals exposure on aquatic organisms
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