Terrestrial Ecotoxicology

Harlan Laboratories is a market leader with over 25 years of experience in testing, registration and consulting. Registration of plant protection products, according to present and upcoming guidelines and regulations, requires the experience of a strong scientific team.  Harlan Laboratories' staff  has the scientific expertise to conduct this type of registration, as well as conduct studies on industrial chemicals, biocides, and more recently, veterinary medicines and pharmaceutical products.

We offer a great variety of terrestrial ecotoxicology services based on our vast experience, with a focus on higher-tier research such as:

• Bee tunnel studies
• Earthworm field studies
• NTA-aged toxicity testing

Tests conducted within Harlan Laboratories include, but are not limited to:

• Effects on soil microbial activity (respiration, nitrification)
• Acute and extended toxicity (reproduction) to earthworms, springtails (collembola, folsomia candida and folsomia fimetaria) and enchytraid worms
• Acute and extended toxicity studies with non-target arthropods (NTA) according to ESCORT II
• NTA semi-field and aged toxicity tests
• Effects on NTA communities in the field
• Toxicity to honey bees, acute oral toxicity, contact toxicity, toxicity to bee larvae, the honey bee (apis mellifera L.) brood test under semi-field conditions, bee toxicity concerning semi-field and field testing
• Acute and extended toxicity to dung fauna (scathophaga stercoraria, musca autumnalis aphodius spp.)
• Effects on non-target plants greenhouse, semi-field and field testing
• Effects on reproduction of soil predatory mites (hypoaspis aculeifer)
• Bioaccumulation (insect residue, earthworms) studies in the laboratory and in the field
• Avian toxicity
  • Acute toxicity in birds
  • Dietary toxicity in birds