DocumentCode
3346357
Title
Notice of Retraction
Toxicity Assessment of Effluents Discharged into Bohai Sea of China Using a Battery of Bioassay
Author
Jingli Mu ; Zhifeng Zhang ; Juying Wang ; Xinhong Wang ; Huasheng Hong
Author_Institution
Nat. Marine Environ. Monitoring Center, Dalian, China
fYear
2011
fDate
10-12 May 2011
Firstpage
1
Lastpage
4
Abstract
Notice of Retraction
After careful and considered review of the content of this paper by a duly constituted expert committee, this paper has been found to be in violation of IEEE´s Publication Principles.
We hereby retract the content of this paper. Reasonable effort should be made to remove all past references to this paper.
The presenting author of this paper has the option to appeal this decision by contacting TPII@ieee.org.
In this study, toxic risk classification based on a battery of bioassays was proposed to assess and compare the toxicity of 17 effluent samples collected from around Bohai Sea coastal area. More than half of 17 effluent samples were of high toxicity (class III), which were mainly obtained from industrial outlets; significant toxicity effects were also observed for some of the sewage river samples. These results indicated that it is necessary to further study the quality and toxicity of both sea water and sediment of the adjacent marine environment, and to assess potential ecological risk due to the long-time discharge of those toxic effluents. The proposed method was effective and feasible for screening and evaluating the toxic risk of effluents discharged into sea.
After careful and considered review of the content of this paper by a duly constituted expert committee, this paper has been found to be in violation of IEEE´s Publication Principles.
We hereby retract the content of this paper. Reasonable effort should be made to remove all past references to this paper.
The presenting author of this paper has the option to appeal this decision by contacting TPII@ieee.org.
In this study, toxic risk classification based on a battery of bioassays was proposed to assess and compare the toxicity of 17 effluent samples collected from around Bohai Sea coastal area. More than half of 17 effluent samples were of high toxicity (class III), which were mainly obtained from industrial outlets; significant toxicity effects were also observed for some of the sewage river samples. These results indicated that it is necessary to further study the quality and toxicity of both sea water and sediment of the adjacent marine environment, and to assess potential ecological risk due to the long-time discharge of those toxic effluents. The proposed method was effective and feasible for screening and evaluating the toxic risk of effluents discharged into sea.
Keywords
effluents; marine pollution; oceanographic techniques; seawater; sediments; toxicology; Bohai Sea coastal area; China; bioassays; discharged effluent toxicity assessment; industrial outlets; marine environment; potential ecological risk assessment; sea water quality; sea water toxicity; sediment quality; sediment toxicity; sewage river samples; toxic effluent long time discharge; toxic risk classification; Batteries; Effluents; Hazards; ISO standards; Monitoring; Rivers; Wastewater;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Bioinformatics and Biomedical Engineering, (iCBBE) 2011 5th International Conference on
Conference_Location
Wuhan
ISSN
2151-7614
Print_ISBN
978-1-4244-5088-6
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/icbbe.2011.5781574
Filename
5781574
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