**Acknowledgements**

**Abbreviations**

**DIN**

**LOEC**

**MEC**

**NOEC**

**PEC**

**Abbreviation Full name Abbreviation Full name**

**ASTM** American Society for Testing and Materials

682 Environmental Risk Assessment of Soil Contamination

**CLPP** Community-level Physiological

German Institute for

für Normung)

**EMEA** European Medicines Evaluation Agency

**ISO** International Organization for Standardization

> Lowest Observed Effect Concentration

Measured Environmental

Cooperation and Development

Predicted Environmental

No Observable Effect Concentrations

Concentration

**OECD** Organization for Economic

**Table 5.** List of abbreviations used in the text

**ISTA** International Seed Testing Association

Standardization (Deutsches Institut

**AF** Assessment Factor **PICT** Pollution-induced Community Tolerance

**PNEC** Predicted Non-Effective Concentrations

**SDMD (SMZ)** Sulphadimidine (Sulphamethazine)

**SA(s)** Sulphonamide(s)

**SMR** Sulphamerazine

**SPY** Sulphapyridine

**SSX** Sulphisoxazole

**STZ** Sulphathiazole

**VICH** Veterinary International Conference on Harmonization

**SMX** Sulphamethoxazole

**APHA** American Public Health Association**PN** Polish Norms (Polskie Normy)

Profiling **RQ** Risk Quotient

**EC50** Effective Concentration **SCP** Sulphachloropyridazine **ED50** Effective Dose **SDM** Sulphadimethoxine

**IC50** Inhibitory Concentration **SMM** Sulphamonomethoxine

**OM** Organic Matter **VPCs** Veterinary pharmaceuticals **pABA** *p*-aminobenzoic acid **WTP** Wastewater Treatment Plant

Concentration **ƒOC** Organic Carbon Content

**EPA** Environmental Protection Agency **SDZ** Sulphadiazine **ERA** Environmental Risk Assessment **SGD** Sulphaguanidine Financial support was provided by the Polish National Science Centre under grants DEC-2011/03/B/NZ8/03009 and DEC-2011/03/B/NZ8/03010 and DS 30-8110-D195-13.
