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From: Can a chemical be both readily biodegradable AND very persistent (vP)? Weight-of-evidence determination demonstrates that phenanthrene is not persistent in the environment

Fig. 1

Simplified ITS flow diagram for substance persistence assessment. Assessment and testing is tiered and progresses until a definitive conclusion on persistence can be drawn. Conclusions on non-persistence can be achieved with ready biodegradation test data. Following this, information from other screening tests in combination with other relevant information can be used in a weight-of-evidence approach to conclude the persistence assessment. In cases where the assessment cannot be concluded based on the available information, definitive compartment-specific simulation tests are undertaken

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