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Additional Guidance for Reviewing Pesticide Environmental Fate Studies

EFED reviews subject studies in support of drinking water exposure and ecological risk assessments.

The PDF file contains five study review guides and one report review guide to help EFED scientists uniformly consider issues, data, and formatting relevant to efficiently review environmental fate studies.

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Additional Guidance for Reviewing Environmental Fate Studies (PDF)(84 pp, 782 K, December 20, 2012)
Study Review Guides including: Laboratory Volatility; Field Volatility; Fish and Oyster BCF; Sample Storage Stability; Prospective Ground Water Monitoring. Report Review Guide: Environmental Chemistry Method (ECM) and Independent Laboratory Validation (ILV)