Consecutive System of Tests for Assessment of the Effects of Chemical Agents in the Aquatic Environment

Acute toxicity data: A comprehensive comparison of results of fish, daphnia, and algae tests with new substances notified in the European Union

“…In 37.9% of all cases, either fish or Daphnia tests were more sensitive. The high sensitivity of the algal test concurs with earlier findings using smaller sets of chemicals [9,10]. Figure 1 shows that fish versus Daphnia has the best correlation from the three pairs (r 2 ϭ 0.597).…”

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“…Cladocerans (also known as water fleas) are a group of microcrustaceans commonly distributed in freshwater bodies and occurring in a variety of habitats; they play an important role on food webs, both as consumers of phytoplankton and fish prey (Dettmers & Stein, 1992). Within this group, daphnids have been broadly used in aquatic toxicology, they have demonstrated to be sensitive to a large variety of chemicals (Adema, Kuiper, Hanstveit & Canton, 1982;Baudouin & Scoppa, 1974). Daphnia magna has been recommended for toxicity evaluation of many chemicals in water (ASTM, 2014;ISO International Standard 6341, 1996;OECD 202, 2004;U.S.…”

Combination of single‐species laboratory tests for the assessment of the ecotoxicity of p‐Benzoquinone

“…Single acute toxicity laboratory tests help in evaluating the nature and degree of harmful effects produced on living species by toxicants and in this way provide information for environmental protection (Adema *To whom all correspondence should be addressed. CCC 0884-8181/90/040405-012$04.00 and Vink, 1981;Cabridenc and Bouchinet, 1982;Adema et al, 1983;Blanck et al, 1984;Plotkin and Ram, 1984). p-Benzoquinone is widely used in the dye, textile, chemical, tanning, and cosmetic industries due to its ability to react with certain nitrogen compounds to form colored substances (Sittig, 1981).…”