Great Lakes Water Quality Initiative Technical Support Document for the Procedure to Determine Bioaccumulation Factors, July 1994

摘要

The purpose of this document is to provide the technical information and rational in support of the proposed procedures to determine bioaccumulation factors (BAFs). This document contains six sections: (1) Introduction; (2) BAFs based on the concentration of the freely dissolved chemical in water; (3) Prediction of bioconcentration factors (BCFs); (4) Food chain multipliers based on the 1993 Gobas model; (5) BAFs from biota-sediment accumulation factor (BSAF) measurements; (6) Bioaccumulation Equivalency Factors (BEFs); and (7) Derivation of BAFs for twenty-two chemicals. Bioaccumulation factors are needed to determine both human and wildlife Tier I water quality criteria and Tier II values. Also, they are used to define Bioaccumulative Chemicals of Concern among the Great Lakes Initiative universe of pollutants.