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EFFECTS ASSESSMENT<br />

Earthworms are also able to take up chemicals from food <strong>and</strong> it has been hypothesized that this<br />

process may affect accumulation at log Kow>5 (Belfroid et al., 1995). The data collected by<br />

Jager (1998), however, do not indicate that this exposure route actually leads to higher body<br />

residues than expected on the basis of simple partitioning. Care must be taken in situations<br />

where the food of earthworms is specifically contaminated (e.g. in case of high concentrations in<br />

leaf litter) although reliable models to estimate this route are currently lacking.<br />

The model was supported by data with neutral organic chemicals in soil within the range log<br />

Kow 3-8 <strong>and</strong> in water-only experiments from 1-6. An application range of 1-8 is advised <strong>and</strong> it is<br />

reasonable to assume that extrapolation to lower Kow values is possible. The model could also<br />

be used <strong>for</strong> chlorophenols when the fraction in the neutral <strong>for</strong>m was at least 5% <strong>and</strong> when both<br />

sorption <strong>and</strong> BCF are derived from the Kow of the neutral species. The underlying data are<br />

however too limited to propose this approach in general <strong>for</strong> ionised chemicals.<br />

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