Scottish Marine and Freshwater Science Volume 4 Number 4: Measurement of Contaminants and their Effects in Environmental Samples - Proposal for the Revision of the Sampling Programme
Review of contaminant monitoring currently undertaken in Scotland's seas
List of acronyms
| BAC |
Background Assessment Concentration (contaminants) or Background Assessment Criteria (biological effects) |
| BC |
Background Concentration |
| CEMP |
OSPAR Coordinated Environmental Monitoring Programme |
| CSEMP |
UK Clean Seas Environmental Monitoring Programme |
| EAC |
Environmental Assessment Criteria |
| EQS |
Environmental Quality Standard |
| EQSD |
Environmental Quality Standard Directive (2008/105/ EC) |
| EROD |
7-ethoxyresorufin O-deethylase |
| FSA |
Food Standards Agency |
| GES |
Good Environmental Status |
| HBCDD |
Hexabromocyclododecane |
| MSFD |
Marine Strategy Framework Directive 2008/56/ EC) |
| MSS |
Marine Scotland Science |
| OSPAR |
OSPAR Convention for the protection of the north east Atlantic |
| PAHs |
Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons |
| PBDEs |
Polybrominated diphenyl ethers |
| PCBs |
Polychlorinated biphenyls |
| PSD |
Priority Substances directive (2013/39/ EU) |
| SEPA |
Scottish Environment Protection Agency |
| TBT |
Tributyltin |
| WFD |
Water Framework Directive (2000/60/ EC) |