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Table of Contents

By Environmental Protection Agency

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Title: Table of Contents  
Author: Environmental Protection Agency
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Language: English
Subject: Ecology, Natural resource issues, Environemtal protection
Collections: Environmental Awareness Library Collection
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Publisher: United States Environmental Protection Agency

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Protection Agency, B. E. (n.d.). Table of Contents. Retrieved from http://gutenberg.cc/


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Excerpt: Acknowledgments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ix Executive Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xi List of Acronyms and Abbreviations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xv Glossary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xvii 1.0 INTRODUCTION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-1 1.1 Background . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-1 1.2 Effect of This Guidance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-2 1.3 Three Goals of This Document . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-2 2.0 DEFINITION AND MEASUREMENT OF METHOD VARIABILITY IN WET TESTING . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-1 2.1 Terms and Definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-1 2.2 Defining WET Test Variability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-1 2.3 Quantifying WET Test Variability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-2 3.0 VARIABILITY OF WET TEST METHODS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-1 3.1 Acquisition, Selection, and Quality Assurance of Data Presented in this Document . . . . . . . 3-1 3.2 Variability of EC25, LC50, and NOEC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-2 3.2.1 Within-Laboratory Variability of EC25, LC50, and NOEC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-2 3.2.2 Between-Laboratory Variability of EC25, LC50, and NOEC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-7 3.3 Variability of Endpoint Measurements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-8 3.4 Conclusions about Variability of WET Methods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-10 3.4.1 Variability of EC25, LC50, NOEC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-10 3.4.2 Variability of Endpoint Measurements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-11 4.0 VARIABILITY IN CONTEXT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-1 4.1 Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry Pellston WET Workshop . . . . . . . . . . 4-1 4.1.1 General Conclusions and Recommendations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-1 4.1.2 Conclusions about Data Precision . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-2 4.2 Water Environment Research Foundation Study . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-3 4.3 Minimizing Variability by Adhering to WET Methods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-3 4.4 Conclusion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-4 5.0 GUIDANCE TO REGULATORY AUTHORITIES, LABORATORIES AND PERMITTEES: GENERATING AND EVALUATING EFFECT CONCENTRATIONS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-1 5.1 Steps for Minimizing Test Method Variability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

 
 



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