PMID- 18572224
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20080923
LR  - 20080804
IS  - 0048-9697 (Print)
IS  - 0048-9697 (Linking)
VI  - 403
IP  - 1-3
DP  - 2008 Sep 15
TI  - On the use of the partitioning approach to derive Environmental Quality Standards 
      (EQS) for persistent organic pollutants (POPs) in sediments: a review of existing 
      data.
PG  - 23-33
LID - 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2008.05.016 [doi]
AB  - A review of experimental data has been performed to study the relationships 
      between the concentration in water, pore water and sediments for different 
      families of organic contaminants. The objective was to determine whether it is 
      possible to set EQS for sediments from EQS defined for surface waters in the 
      Daughter Directive of the European Parliament (COM (2006) 397). The analysis of 
      experimental data showed that even though in some specific cases there is a 
      coupling between water column and sediments, this coupling is rather the 
      exception. Therefore it is not recommendable to use water column data to assess 
      the chemical quality status of sediments and it is necessary to measure in both 
      media. At the moment EQS have been defined for the water column and will assess 
      only the compliance with good chemical status of surface waters. Since the 
      sediment toxicity depends on the dissolved pore water concentration, the EQS 
      developed for water could be applied to pore water (interstitial water); hence, 
      there would be no need of developing another set of EQS. The partitioning 
      approach has been proposed as a solution to calculate sediment EQS from water 
      EQS, but the partitioning coefficient strongly depends on sediment 
      characteristics and its use introduces an important uncertainty in the definition 
      of sediment EQS. Therefore, the direct measurement of pore water concentration is 
      regarded as a better option.
FAU - Dueri, Sibylle
AU  - Dueri S
AD  - European Commission, Joint Research Centre, Institute for Environment and 
      Sustainability, Ispra VA, Italy.
FAU - Castro-Jimenez, Javier
AU  - Castro-Jimenez J
FAU - Comenges, Jose-Manuel Zaldivar
AU  - Comenges JM
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PT  - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
DEP - 20080624
PL  - Netherlands
TA  - Sci Total Environ
JT  - The Science of the total environment
JID - 0330500
RN  - 0 (Organic Chemicals)
RN  - 0 (Water Pollutants, Chemical)
SB  - IM
MH  - Ecosystem
MH  - *Environmental Health
MH  - Environmental Monitoring/methods/*standards
MH  - Geologic Sediments/analysis/*chemistry
MH  - Organic Chemicals/analysis/*standards
MH  - Water Pollutants, Chemical/analysis/*standards
MH  - Water Supply/analysis/standards
EDAT- 2008/06/24 09:00
MHDA- 2008/09/24 09:00
CRDT- 2008/06/24 09:00
PHST- 2007/12/06 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2008/05/15 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2008/06/24 09:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2008/09/24 09:00 [medline]
PHST- 2008/06/24 09:00 [entrez]
AID - S0048-9697(08)00543-3 [pii]
AID - 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2008.05.016 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Sci Total Environ. 2008 Sep 15;403(1-3):23-33. doi: 
      10.1016/j.scitotenv.2008.05.016. Epub 2008 Jun 24.