Assessment of toxicant activity in sediments by the ECHA biocide monitor

B J Dutka; J F Gorrie

doi:10.1016/0269-7491(89)90125-5

Assessment of toxicant activity in sediments by the ECHA biocide monitor

Environ Pollut. 1989;57(1):1-7. doi: 10.1016/0269-7491(89)90125-5.

Authors

B J Dutka¹, J F Gorrie

Affiliation

¹ Rivers Research Branch, National Water Research Institute, Canada Center for Inland Waters, PO Box 5050, Burlington, Ontario, Canada L7R 4A6.

PMID: 15092462
DOI: 10.1016/0269-7491(89)90125-5

Abstract

The ECHA Biocide Monitor, a dipstick procedure originally designed to test the effectiveness of in situ biocides, was evaluated as a possible environmental toxicity assessment procedure. The dipstick procedure was applied to 94 sediment extracts which were also tested by three well documented toxicant screening procedures; Microtox, Daphnia magna and Spirillum volutans. In these samples the Daphnia magna test proved to be the most sensitive indication of toxicant activity (63 of 94) with the ECHA Biocide Monitor easily being the second most sensitive procedure with 27 of 94 sediments indicating the presence of toxic substances. Results of the investigation are detailed.