Measured environmental concentration
An Measured Environmental Concentration relates to a chemical substance found in an environmental sample. The concentration of the compound may result from direct contamination, transformation and/or metabolization of a different chemical contaminant, natural origin or a combination of these sources.
MEC is to be used as a reference in the context of Chemical Safety Assessments and should be compared with the respective Predicted Environmental Concentration and Predicted No-Effect Concentration in order to decide whether exposure model is valid and the compound related risk is controlled.
