The R package `rbioacc` is dedicated to the analysis of experimental data collected from bioaccumulation tests. It provides ready-to-use functions to visualise a data set and to estimate bioaccumulation metrics to be further used in support of environmental risk assessment, in full compliance with regulatory requirements. Such metrics are classically requested by standardised regulatory guidelines on which national agencies base their evaluation of applications for marketing authorisation of chemical active substances.
Package `rbioacc` can be used to get estimates of toxicokinetic (TK) parameters (uptake and elimination rates) and bioaccumulation metrics (e.g., BCF, BSAF, BMF) by fitting a one compartment TK model on exposure-depuration test data. The bioaccumulation metrics estimates as well as the parameters and the predictions of the internal concentrations are given with the quantification of their uncertainty.
This paper illustrates some classical uses of `rbioacc` with internal concentrations collected over time possibly at several exposure concentrations, analysed with a generic TK one-compartment model. These examples can be followed step-by-step to analyse any new data set, as long as the data set format is respected.