Environmental Risk Assessment of Chemical Products
A special issue of Environments (ISSN 2076-3298).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2019) | Viewed by 7210
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
In general, environmental risk assessments of chemical products serve the purpose of an acceptability analysis. They are guided by the question of whether the anticipated environmental exposure pattern associated with a particular use is expected to have unacceptable effects.
In addition, chemicals are being classified based on their potential to cause damage in the environment, using the Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling (GHS), the Stockholm convention, and various other schemes for evaluating their persistence, bioaccumulation, and toxicity, as well as their long range transport potential.
These approaches, however, do not allow us to quantify the environmental damage that is expected in the course of the regular, authorized use of a product, as it is considered negligible. Such a measure would be necessary in order to accomplish comparative risk assessments of the competing chemical products. While comparative product assessments are routinely conducted in the context of life cycle assessments (LCA), recent attempts to provide methods to fulfil the legal requirements regarding the comparative risk assessments of pesticides and biocides in the European Union have had only limited success.
Another problem brought about by the current environmental risk assessment scheme is the definition of the boundary between the TechnoSphere, where the presence of hazardous chemicals does not pose an environmental risk, and the environment. In practice, this definition is not always clear, and in some cases, intermediate areas have been defined with a higher level of acceptable effects, as, for example, in the in-field area of agricultural production systems.
This Special Issue welcomes case studies and conceptional papers from all areas of the environmental risk assessment of chemical products, including contributions that focus on one of the disciplines involved, for example, on the environmental chemistry, ecotoxicology, policy analysis, or mathematical aspects of risk assessment. It has been conceived in the hope that open access publishing will facilitate the discussion of and will foster the development of assessment schemes that help us to make sustainable use of chemical substances today and in the future.
Dr. Johannes Ranke
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- environmental risk assessment
- chemical products
- comparative risk assessment
- TechnoSphere
- ecotoxicological risk assessment
- pesticides
- biocides
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