ENHANCING ECOTOXICOLOGICAL MODELING AND ASSESSMENT

We view residue—effects relationships as integral in an overall scheme of environmental risk assessment involving fate modeling, bioaccumulation modeling (including bioconcentration, food chain accumulation, and metabolism), and community dynamics, as discussed by Bartell et al. [4]. Residue—effects relationships will allow the substantial progress environmental toxicology has made in the past few decades to continue without losing touch with either the large body of exposure-based information or the field-based observations of adverse responses and residue monitoring data. The opportunity to correlate and validate the observations of laboratory toxicologists and field ecologists via residue levels in organisms and population effects (or lack of them), is particularly attractive. © 1993, American Chemical Society. All rights reserved.