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Conversion factors <strong>for</strong> laboratory animals are presented in Table 22.<br />

Table 22 Conversion factors from NOAEL to NOEC <strong>for</strong> several mammalian <strong>and</strong> one bird species<br />

Species Conversion factor (bw/dfi)<br />

Canis domesticus 40<br />

Macaca sp. 20<br />

Microtus spp. 8.3<br />

Mus musculus 8.3<br />

Oryctolagus cuniculus 33.3<br />

Rattus norvegicus (> 6 weeks) 20<br />

Rattus norvegicus (≤ 6 weeks) 10<br />

Gallus domesticus 8<br />

* bw = body weight (g); dfi: daily food intake (g/day)<br />

NOECs converted from NOAELs have the same priority as direct NOECs.<br />

EFFECTS ASSESSMENT<br />

The PNECoral is ultimately derived from the toxicity data (food basis) applying an assessment<br />

factor. In <strong>for</strong>mula:<br />

Explanation of symbols<br />

TOX<br />

oral<br />

PNEC oral = (79)<br />

AForal<br />

PNECoral PNEC <strong>for</strong> secondary poisoning of birds <strong>and</strong> mammals [in kg . kgfood -1 ]<br />

AForal assessment factor applied in extrapolation of PNEC [-] Table 23<br />

TOXoral either LC50 bird, NOECbird or NOECmammal, food, chr [in kg . kgfood -1 ]<br />

The assessment factor (AForal) takes into account interspecies variation, acute/subchronic to<br />

chronic extrapolation <strong>and</strong> laboratory data to field impact extrapolation. Some specific<br />

considerations need to be made <strong>for</strong> the use of the assessment factor <strong>for</strong> predators.<br />

CCME (1998) contains wildlife data on body weight <strong>and</strong> daily food ingestion rates <strong>for</strong> 27 bird<br />

<strong>and</strong> 10 mammalian species. In addition, Schudoma et al. (1999) derived the mean body weight<br />

<strong>and</strong> daily food intake <strong>for</strong> the otter. The currently available set on wildlife bw/dfi ratios ranges<br />

from 1.1 to 9 <strong>for</strong> birds <strong>and</strong> from 3.9 to 10 <strong>for</strong> mammalian species. Comparison of these wildlife<br />

conversion factors with the values given in Table 22 <strong>for</strong> laboratory species (8.3 – 40) shows that<br />

the wildlife species often have a lower bw/dfi ratio than laboratory animals. The difference can<br />

be up to a factor 8 <strong>for</strong> birds <strong>and</strong> 10 <strong>for</strong> mammals. This difference is in theory accounted <strong>for</strong> in the<br />

use of the interspecies variation factor that is part of the st<strong>and</strong>ard assessment factor. The<br />

interspecies variation, however, should comprise more than just the bw/dfi differences between<br />

species, e.g. the differences in intrinsic sensitivity. The protective value of the “normal”<br />

interspecies variation factor may there<strong>for</strong>e be questionable in case of predators. On top of that,<br />

many predator species are characterised by typical metabolic stages in their life-cycle that could<br />

make them extra sensitive to contaminants in comparison with laboratory animals (e.g.<br />

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