Guidance’s, Explanatory videos and Publications
The section describes Biotic Ligand Models and their use in risk assessment, as well as the development of the bio-met bioavailability tool (user-friendly BLM) and supporting tools.
User guide
bio-met User Guide 5.1. The bio-met manual has been updated together with the release of bio-met v5.1.
Explanatory videos
The following explanatory videos have been made to guide you through to the process of calculating local HC5.
- Downloading bio-met
2. Data entry in bio-met
3. Data extraction from bio-met
Hardness conversion tool
Hardness conversion tool. The bio-met hardness conversion tool can also be downloaded as a Microsoft Excel 2007 spreadsheet. This tool can be used to convert water hardness values (i.e. calcium carbonate concentrations) to calcium concentrations.
Publications
Presentation SETAC Metal Interest Group 2019, a presentation on the update of bio-met to v5.0 presented at SETAC Helsinki MIG meeting (May 2019)
Poster SETAC 2017, a poster on bio-met v4.0 presented at SETAC Europe 2017 in Brussels (May 2017).
Workshop report on metal bioavailability under the Water Framework Directive
Technical guidance to implement bioavailability (Working Group Chemicals, October 2021)