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An Overview Of The Use Of Quantitative Structure-Activity Relationships For Ranking And Prioritzing Large Chemical Inventories For Environmental Risk Assessments, Steven P. Bradbury, Christine L. Russom, Roger L. Breton, John D. Walker

Steven P. Bradbury

Ecological risk assessments for chemical stressors are used to establish linkages between likely exposure concentrations and adverse effects to ecological receptors. At times, it is useful to conduct screening risk assessments to assist in prioritizing or ranking chemicals on the basis of potential hazard and exposure assessment parameters. Ranking of large chemical inventories can provide evidence for focusing research and/or cleanup efforts on specific chemicals of concern. Because of financial and time constraints, data gaps exist, and the risk assessor is left with decisions on which models to use to estimate the parameter of concern. In this review, several methods …