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BS EN ISO 16712:2006

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Water quality. Determination of acute toxicity of marine or estuarine sediment to amphipods

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Hardcopy , PDF

Language(s)

English

Published date

29-12-2006

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1 Scope
2 Principle
3 Test environment
   3.1 Facilities
   3.2 Lighting
4 Reagents and materials
   4.1 Test organism
   4.2 Overlying water
5 Apparatus
6 Treatment and preparation of samples
   6.1 General
   6.2 Control or reference sediment
   6.3 Test sediment
   6.4 Preparation of sediment samples
7 Test procedures
   7.1 Preparing the exposure vessels
   7.2 Introducing the organisms
   7.3 Test conditions
   7.4 Test observations and measurements
   7.5 Expression of results
   7.6 Reburrowing capability
   7.7 Validity of the test
8 Analysis and interpretation of results
   8.1 Data analysis
   8.2 Non-contaminant factors
9 Reference toxicant
10 Precision
11 Test report
Annex A (informative) Reconstituted salt water
Annex B (normative) Maximum length of amphipod species,
                      optimal salinity and temperature
                      ranges
Annex C (informative) Precision data
Bibliography

Provides a method for the determination of acute toxicity to amphipods exposed over a period of 10 d to samples of contaminated marine or estuarine sediment, to chemical, industrial or municipal sludge or other solid wastes that may combine with marine or estuarine sediments, or to chemicals or preparations spiked into clean sediment.

Committee
EH/3/5
DevelopmentNote
Renumbers and supersedes BS ISO 16712. 2006 version incorporates amendment 16801 to BS ISO 16712. Supersedes 03/309714 DC. (01/2007) Supersedes BS 6068-5.37(2005). (08/2015)
DocumentType
Standard
Pages
28
PublisherName
British Standards Institution
Status
Current
Supersedes

ISO 5814:2012 Water quality — Determination of dissolved oxygen — Electrochemical probe method
ASTM E 729 : 1996 Standard Guide for Conducting Acute Toxicity Tests on Test Materials with Fishes, Macroinvertebrates, and Amphibians
ISO/TS 20281:2006 Water quality — Guidance on statistical interpretation of ecotoxicity data
ISO 5667-16:2017 Water quality — Sampling — Part 16: Guidance on biotesting of samples
ISO 10523:2008 Water quality — Determination of pH

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