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Bioavailability of Organic Chemicals in Soil and Sediment

  • Provides an updated review of bioavailability science, covering aspects related to environmental chemistry, microbiology and ecotoxicology
  • Assesses the impact of bioavailability on chemical risk assessment
  • Presents a multi-disciplinariy approach to bioavailability

Part of the book series: The Handbook of Environmental Chemistry (HEC, volume 100)

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Table of contents (16 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
  2. Introduction Setting of the Scene, Definitions, and Guide to Volume

    • Jose J. Ortega-Calvo, John R. Parsons
    Pages 1-4
  3. Chemical Distribution in Soil and Sediment

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 5-5
    2. Sorption of Polar and Ionogenic Organic Chemicals

      • Steven T. J. Droge
      Pages 43-80
  4. Bioavailability and Bioaccumulation

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 129-129
    2. Bioaccumulation and Toxicity of Organic Chemicals in Terrestrial Invertebrates

      • M. Nazaret GonzĂĄlez-Alcaraz, Catarina Malheiro, Diogo N. Cardoso, Marija Prodana, Rui G. Morgado, Cornelis A. M. van Gestel et al.
      Pages 149-189
    3. Assessment of the Oral Bioavailability of Organic Contaminants in Humans

      • M. A. A. Wijayawardena, Y. Liu, K. Yan, L. Duan, A. C. Umeh, R. Naidu et al.
      Pages 191-218
  5. Impact of Sorption Processes on Toxicity, Persistence and Remediation

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 219-219
    2. Carbon Amendments and Remediation of Contaminated Sediments

      • Sebastian Abel, Inna Nybom, Jarkko Akkanen
      Pages 221-241
    3. Why Biodegradable Chemicals Persist in the Environment? A Look at Bioavailability

      • Jose J. Ortega-Calvo, Felix Stibany, Kirk T. Semple, Andreas Schaeffer, John R. Parsons, Kilian E. C. Smith
      Pages 243-265
  6. Methods for Measuring Bioavailability

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 291-291
    2. Microbial, Plant, and Invertebrate Test Methods in Regulatory Soil Ecotoxicology

      • JĂśrg RĂśmbke, Fabrice Martin-Laurent
      Pages 369-388
  7. Bioavailability in Chemical Risk Assessment

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 389-389

About this book

This book discusses bioavailability concepts and methods, summarizing the current knowledge on bioavailability science, as well as possible pathways for integrating bioavailability into risk assessment and the regulation of organic chemicals. Divided into 5 parts, it begins with an overview of chemical distribution in soil and sediment, as well as the bioavailability and bioaccumulation of chemicals in plants, soil, invertebrates and vertebrates (including humans). It then focuses on the impact of sorption processes and reviews bioavailability measurement methods. The closing chapters discuss the impact of bioavailability studies on chemical risk assessment, and highlights further research needs. Written by a multi-disciplinary team of authors, it is an essential resource for scientists in academia and industry, students, as well as for authorities.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Instituto de Recursos Naturales y AgrobiobiologÚa de Sevilla, CSIC, Seville, Spain

    Jose Julio Ortega-Calvo

  • Institute for Biodiversity & Ecosystem Dynamics, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    John Robert Parsons

About the editors

Jose Julio Ortega-Calvo has been a researcher at Institute of Natural Resources and Agrobiology of Seville, Spanish National Research Council (IRNAS-CSIC) since 1996, and has worked on the bioavailability and biodegradation of organic pollutants for the last 25 years. After completing his Ph.D. at University of Seville in 1991, he worked on different aspects of microbial ecology during postdoctoral stays at the University of Amsterdam (UvA, The Netherlands) and Cornell University (USA). Dr. Ortega was the President in Europe of the Society for Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (SETAC Europe) in 2016/2017. He is a member of the Stakeholder Bureau of the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA), member of the External Science Advisory Panel (ESAP) of the Long Range Research Initiative at the European Chemical Industry Council (CEFIC-LRI), and Associate Editor of Science of the Total Environment journal.

John Robert Parsons completed his PhD on the biodegradation of chlorinated aromatic compounds at the University of Amsterdam (UvA) under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Otto Hutzinger. He currently works at the Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics at the same university. His research focuses on the environmental behaviour of organic contaminants and how they interact with natural biogeochemical processes, particularly the fate of organic pollutants or contaminants in the environment and how they interact with organic matter (sorption) and with microbial communities (biodegradation), and the relationships between these interactions (bioavailability).

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eBook USD 299.00
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Softcover Book USD 379.99
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