ENVC Hearing 6Oct14 TGKL lay attach 1 literature-review [pdf, 1.5 MB]
...BCFs >1000), based on an average organism lipid content of approximately 5 per cent. This trend applies up to “cut-off” log KOW value of approximately 7.5 (Jonker & vanderHeijden 2007), beyond which chemicals tend to be too large to pass through biological membranes or become so hydrophobic that they dissolve to only a negligible extent in water, which greatly slows down their uptake rate. The log KOW value has further utility in ecological risk assessment since hydrophobic...