Environmental Studies

Following is a sampling of recent environmental studies on silicone materials. For access to additional studies, go to www.cyclosiloxanes.org.

• Use of multiple lines of evidence to provide a realistic toxic substances control act ecological risk evaluation based on monitoring data: D4 case study
  By B. Nusz J, Fairbrother A, Daleyb J, Allen Burtonb G. Science of The Total Environment (2018). Volume 636, 15 September 2018, Pages 1382-1395.
• Can the Stockholm convention address the spectrum of chemicals currently under regulatory scrutiny? Advocating a more prominent role for modeling in POP screening assessment 
  By McLachlan M. Environmental Science: Processes & Impacts (2018).Volume 20, issue 1, January 2018, pages 32-37.
• Understanding of Cyclic Volatile Methyl Siloxane Fate in a High Latitude Lake Is Constrained by Uncertainty in Organic Carbon–Water Partitioning
  By Krogseth I S, Whelan M J, Christensen G N, Breivik K, Evenset A and Warner N A. Environmental Science and Technology (2017). Volume 51 (1), pages 401-409