The monitoring of environmental contaminants in soil, air and water is an essential part of understanding and validating the findings of risk assessment and protecting against harmful effects. Some study types including soil dissipation have well defined regulatory guidelines and study protocols, but water monitoring is still a challenge based on recent EPA science advisory panels, and water monitoring designs can be quite varied. The concepts and practices of setting study design parameters, managing the time scale, integration of sample collection and analytical methods, quality control and assurance, completeness and efficiency, work flow analysis, cost control, ruggedness, and other aspects that contribute to the design, conduct and reporting of water monitoring studies will be reviewed with examples.

Design parameters for environmental monitoring studies of pesticides and other environmental contaminants

ACS Fall 2021

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