• Media type: E-Article
  • Title: Acute toxicity data: A comprehensive comparison of results of fish, daphnia, and algae tests with new substances notified in the European Union
  • Contributor: Weyers, Arnd; Sokull‐Klüttgen, Birgit; Baraibar‐Fentanes, Joaquin; Vollmer, Gerald
  • imprint: Wiley, 2000
  • Published in: Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry
  • Language: English
  • DOI: 10.1002/etc.5620190731
  • ISSN: 0730-7268; 1552-8618
  • Keywords: Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis ; Environmental Chemistry
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  • Description: <jats:title>Abstract</jats:title><jats:p>Acute toxicity data from the New Chemicals Database of the European Chemicals Bureau were compared for fish, <jats:italic>Daphnia</jats:italic>, and algae. The algal growth inhibition test was the most sensitive. Correlation between fish and <jats:italic>Daphnia</jats:italic> toxicity values was better than the correlation with algae. Toxicity values among the three organisms correlated more strongly than any with log <jats:italic>P</jats:italic><jats:sub>ow</jats:sub>.</jats:p>