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Marine Contaminants of Emerging Concern
Summary
This review examines the identification and classification of marine contaminants of emerging concern, discussing the challenges that environmental regulators and researchers face in defining, listing, and managing substances that lack comprehensive regulatory frameworks despite evidence of ecological risk.
Abstract Identifying and listing substances or materials as contaminants of emerging concern (CECs) is not a simple task, and for the marine environment specifically is a challenge for environmental regulators, managers and researchers worldwide (Box 13.1) (Tornero V, and Hanke G (2017) Potential chemical contaminants in the marine environment: An overview of main contaminant lists. Office of the European Union Publications, Luxembourg. Available at: http://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/bitstream/JRC108964/potential_chemical_contaminants_in_the_marine.pdf [Accessed 19 August2019].). Some of these agencies have widely different definitions of what a CEC actually is (Halden J Hazard Mater 282:2–9, 2015).
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