Aquatic environments are often contaminated with complex mixtures of chemicals that may
pose a risk to ecosystems and human health. This contamination cannot be addressed with …

Effect-directed analysis (EDA) combined with nontarget screening (NTS) has established a
valuable tool for the identification of unmonitored toxic substances in environmental …

The first edition of Bioanalytical Tools in Water Quality Assessment was released in 2012.
The field has exploded since and the second edition updates and reviews the application of …

Tests with vertebrates are an integral part of environmental hazard identification and risk
assessment of chemicals, plant protection products, pharmaceuticals, biocides, feed …

The contamination of sediments by polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) has been
widely spread for years due to human activities, imposing the research and development of …

Practical, financial, and ethical considerations related to conducting extensive animal testing
have resulted in various initiatives to promote and expand the use of in vitro testing data for …

High-throughput in vitro bioassays are becoming increasingly important in the risk
characterization of anthropogenic chemicals. Large databases gather nominal effect …

The OECD test guideline 203 for determination of fish acute toxicity requires substantial
numbers of fish and uses death as an apical end point. One potential alternative are fish cell …

In the last couple of years, the interest in the zebrafish embryotoxicity test (ZET) for use in
developmental toxicity assessment has been growing exponentially. This is also evident …

It has been reported that nanoplastics (NP) could cause serious toxicity and accumulative
effects on aquatic organisms as well as interact with organic pollutants and influence …