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What conversion factor between acute and chronic ecotoxicity data is applied in USEtox?

USEtox currently applies a fixed acute-to-chronic ratio of 2 as a statistical average across several chemicals (see Jolliet et al. 2003) and is confirmed by current, much broader studies (Posthuma et al. 2019, Aurisano et al. 2019). This fixed ratio does not account for variability across chemicals and species.

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