Correction to: Toxicity of the Pharmaceuticals Finasteride and Melengestrol Acetate to Benthic Invertebrates

    November 2020 in “ Environmental Science and Pollution Research ”
    Ève A.M. Gilroy, Adrienne J. Bartlett, Patricia L. Gillis, Nicholas A Bendo, Joseph T. Salerno, Amanda M. Hedges, Lisa M. Brown, E.A.M. Holman, Naomi L. Stock, Shane R. de Solla
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    TLDR Finasteride and melengestrol acetate are toxic to benthic invertebrates.
    This document is a correction to an article titled "Toxicity of the pharmaceuticals finasteride and melengestrol acetate to benthic invertebrates." The original article was published on July 22, 2020, without open access, but the authors later decided to opt for Open Choice, and the copyright of the article changed on November 5, 2020. The article is now distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution, and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as appropriate credit is given to the original author(s) and the source. The original article has been corrected.
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