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TEFs for selected groups of compounds

Source: R/information_functions.R
info_TEF.Rd

A list of named vectors which provide Toxic Equivalency Factors (TEFs) for calculating Toxic EQuivalent (TEQ) sums.

Usage

info_TEF$DFP_2005
info_TEF$DFP_2022

Format

A list of named vectors:

  • DFP_2005 gives the 2005 World Health Organisation TEFs for dioxins, furans and dioxin-like (planar) polychlorinated biphenyls (Van den Berg et al. 2006)

  • DFP_2022 gives the 2022 World Health Organisation TEFs for dioxins, furans and dioxin-like (planar) polychlorinated biphenyls (DeVito et al. 2024)

  • DFP_HOLAS3 is a superseded version of DFP_2005 that was used in the HELCOM HOLAS3 assessment. It excludes CB114, CB123 and CB189 and uses code CDFO instead of OCDF. It is included for reproducibility, but might be removed in the future.

  • DFP_CEMP is a superseded version of DFP_2005 that was used in the OSPAR CEMP assessments up to and including 2024. It excludes CB114, CB123 and CB189, uses code CDFO instead of OCDF, and has a TEF for CDFO of 0.00003 rather than 0.0003. It is included for reproducibility, but might be removed in the future.

References

DeVito M, Bokkers B, van Duursen MBM, van Ede K, Feeley M, Gáspár EAF, Haws L, Kennedy S, Peterson RE, Hoogenboom R, Nohara K, Petersen K, Rider C, Rose M, Safe S, Schrenk D, Wheeler MW, Wikoff DS, Zhao B, van den Berg M, 2024. The 2022 world health organization reevaluation of human and mammalian toxic equivalency factors for polychlorinated dioxins, dibenzofurans and biphenyls. Regulatory Toxicology and Pharmacology 146; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.yrtph.2023.105525

Van den Berg M, Birnbaum LS, Denison M, De Vito M, Farland W, Feeley M, Fiedler H, Hakansson H, Hanberg A, Haws L, Rose M, Safe S, Schrenk D, Tohyama C, Tritscher A, Tuomisto J, Tysklind M, Walker N, Peterson RE, 2006. The 2005 World Health Organization reevaluation of human and mammalian toxic equivalency factors for dioxins and dioxin-like compounds. Toxicological Sciences 93 223–241; https://doi.org/10.1093/toxsci/kfl055