Title :
Notice of Retraction
Aquatic Predicted No-Effect Concentration (PNEC) Derivation for Perfluorooctane Sulfonic Acid (PFOA)
Author :
Wang Ying ; Mu Jingli ; Wang Juying
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Marine Chem., Nat. Marine Environ. Monitoring Center, Dalian, China
Abstract :
Notice of Retraction
After careful and considered review of the content of this paper by a duly constituted expert committee, this paper has been found to be in violation of IEEE´s Publication Principles.
We hereby retract the content of this paper. Reasonable effort should be made to remove all past references to this paper.
The presenting author of this paper has the option to appeal this decision by contacting TPII@ieee.org.
Perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA), the representative perfluorinated surfactant, is an anthropogenic pollutant detected in various environmental matrices. Little is known regarding its safe thresholds to the aquatic ecosystem. Predicted no-effect concentrations (PNECs) for PFOA were derived based on the measured/predicted chronic/acute toxicity data. The interspecies correlation estimation (ICE) program and final acute-to-chronic ratio (FACR) were applied to investigate their capability for the derivation of PNEC. The recommended aquatic toxicity thresholds for PFOA are in the range of 0.30 ~ 8.48 mg/L. The ICE-based species sensitivity distribution (SSD) method has certain potential for the derivation of PNEC especially when toxicity data are limited.
Keywords :
data analysis; ecology; marine pollution; ocean chemistry; ICE-based species sensitivity distribution method; acute toxicity data; acute-to-chronic ratio; anthropogenic pollutant detection; aquatic ecosystem; aquatic predicted no-effect concentration; aquatic toxicity threshold; chronic toxicity data; environmental matrices; interspecies correlation estimation program; perfluorinated surfactant; perfluorooctane sulfonic acid; Correlation; Estimation; Extrapolation; Ice; Organisms; Risk management; Sensitivity;
Conference_Titel :
Bioinformatics and Biomedical Engineering, (iCBBE) 2011 5th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Wuhan
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-5088-6
DOI :
10.1109/icbbe.2011.5781369
