Principal Investigator
Fax: +32 2 2416099
Collaborators
Mark Crane, WCA Environment, UK, mark.crane@wca-environment.com
Description
This project aims to develop a list of reference chemicals covering a range of environmental persistence and non-persistence. This reference set would be available for use to validate modifications to existing biodegradation test methods and to develop new test methods. The validation set would also help address concerns that some of the modifications or new methods could result in tests becoming too powerful or overly protective. The aim of the research is to establish such a list of chemicals, with an agreed (by regulators and industry) set of properties and characterized set of degradation behaviour. The reference set of chemicals would be relevant to projects addressing:
As such, it is considered essential that the project has a good over-sight panel of regulators and Industry representatives who will aid the acceptability of the validation set for the purposes described.
Project Final Report: Developing a set of reference chemicals for use in biodegradability tests for assessing the persistency of chemicals
Related Publications
Publications:
Kowalczyk A, Martin TJ, Price OR, Snape JR, van Egmond RA, Finnegan CJ, Schäfer H, Davenport RJ, Bending GD. Refinement of biodegradation tests methodologies and the proposed utility of new microbial ecology techniques. Ecotoxicol Environ Saf. 2015 Jan;111:9-22.
