The weaker points of fish acute toxicity tests and how tests on embryos can solve some issues

Environmental Pollution

Volumn 148, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 385-389

  Wedekind, Claus ^a,b   von Siebenthal, Beat ^a,b   Gingold, Ruth ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^c CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIÓN CIENTÍFICA Y DE EDUCACIÓN SUPERIOR DE ENSENADA   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Ecotoxicology; Embryo test; Fish acute toxicity test; Inferential statistics; Multi factorial testing; OECD guidelines; Pseudoreplication; Representative sampling

Indexed keywords

HEALTH HAZARDS; PATHOGENS; RISK ASSESSMENT; STANDARDIZATION; STATISTICAL METHODS; TOXICITY;

EMBRYO TEST; FISH ACUTE TOXICITY TESTS; INFERENTIAL STATISTICS; MULTI-FACTORIAL TESTING; OECD GUIDELINES; PSEUDOREPLICATION; REPRESENTATIVE SAMPLING;

FISH;

ECOTOXICOLOGY; EMBRYO; ENVIRONMENTAL RISK; FISH; GENETICS; RISK ASSESSMENT; TOXICITY TEST;

ACUTE TOXICITY; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECOTOXICOLOGY; EMBRYOTOXICITY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FISH; GENETIC LINKAGE; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PROBLEM SOLVING; RISK ASSESSMENT; STANDARDIZATION; TOXICITY TESTING;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 34249279888     PISSN: 02697491     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2006.11.022     Document Type: Note

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