"Acceptable Daily Intake" is the highest tolerable daily intake of a substance, expressed in mg/kg bodyweight, which does not represent a health risk over the entire lifespan, calculated on [..]

Adsorbable Organic Halogens is a measurement often used in waste water testing to indicate the overall level of the halogens, fluorine, chlorine, bromine and iodine. This "sum parameter" com [..]

Best Available Techniques. BAT Standards are used to judge the performance of industrial processes and to provide a target for improvement plans.

Best Environmental Practices. BEP means the application of the most appropriate combination of environmental control measures or strategies in order to reduce the impact of specific substances or appl [..]

Bioaccumulation denotes the accumulation of a substance in a living organism as a result of its intake both in the food and also from the environment. Determination of the B-factor (Bioaccumulation Fa [..]

Accumulation of a substance in an organism by absorption from the environment irrespective of any intake with food. The concept is of particular importance for aquatic life with regard to the absorpti [..]

This term denotes the accumulation of substances in a living organism with the food intake. Simple organisms such as algae can absorb minute quantities of a substance which are transferred through the [..]

Bleach is produced by reacting chlorine into a dilute sodium hydroxide solution. Bleach is used for whitening paper, soap, straw and cotton, and for disinfection, water purification and in sanitary cl [..]

Carbon tetrachloride is produced by the high temperature chlorination of propylene or methanes. It is used as a feedstock in the production of CFCs and of chlorine to extract nitrogen trichloride, and [..]

Collective term for chlorinated derivatives of benzene, toluene, phenol, naphthalene and bi-phenyl and other compounds containing at least one benzene ring. Chlorinated aromatics are widely used as in [..]