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Additional Guidance for Evaluating and Calculating Degradation Kinetics in Environmental Media

This is part of the guidance related to Degradation Kinetics.

EFED compiled examples where the PestDF (version 0.8.4), the tool used most commonly by USEPA to conduct kinetic analysis following the NAFTA guidance, results required additional interpretation.

Additional Guidance for Evaluating and Calculating Degradation Kinetics in Environmental Media (pdf) (335.49 KB, March 20, 2015)
A subsample of these examples, along with a brief explanation of some of the recurring issues observed with the PestDF tool are shown in the PDF file

Additional Guidance for Evaluating and Calculating Degradation Kinetics in Environmental Media

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