14674 IUPAC Gold Book - exposure characterisation 10.1351/goldbook.14674 14674 current 1 Description of the presence and characteristics of contact between the contaminant and the ecological entity of concern, and a summary of this information in an exposure profile. contaminant https://goldbook.iupac.org//terms/view/14549 PAC, 2009, 81, 829. 'Glossary of terms used in ecotoxicology (IUPAC Recommendations 2009)' on page 884 (https://doi.org/10.1351/PAC-REC-08-07-09) https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/14674/html https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/14674/json https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/14674/plain Citation: 'exposure characterisation' in IUPAC Compendium of Chemical Terminology, 5th ed. International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry; 2025. Online version 5.0.0, 2025. 10.1351/goldbook.14674 The IUPAC Gold Book is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike CC BY-SA 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) for individual terms. If you are interested in licensing the Gold Book for commercial use, please contact the IUPAC Executive Director at executivedirector@iupac.org . The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) is continuously reviewing and, where needed, updating terms in the Compendium of Chemical Terminology (the IUPAC Gold Book). Users of these terms are encouraged to include the version of a term with its use and to check regularly for updates to term definitions that you are using. 2026-04-22T15:41:58+00:00