Harlan Laboratories has extensive experience in performing aquatic ecotoxicological studies on industrial chemicals, agrochemicals, biocides, and more recently, on veterinary medicines and pharmaceutical products.
Studies are performed according to the international test guidelines of OECD, EU, EPA/OPPTS, ISO and JMAFF.
With modern, purpose-built facilities Harlan Laboratories’ environmental science team offers a one-stop solution to all your ecotoxicological testing requirements.
Tests conducted within Harlan Laboratories include, but are not limited to:
- Acute and prolonged toxicity to fish
- Fish early-life stage tests
- Fish screening tests for endocrine active substances
- Acute toxicity and reproduction tests in Daphnia magna
- Population studies in Daphnia magna
- Acute toxicity tests in several aquatic invertebrate species
- Acute and reproduction tests in water snails (Lymnea)
- Algal growth inhibition tests
- Toxicity tests in higher water plants (Lemna, Myriophyllum, Elodea, etc.)
- Acute and chronic toxicity tests in sediment dwelling organisms (e.g. Chironomus, Lumbriculus)
- Bioaccumulation (radiolabelled and non-radiolabelled) in fish, earthworms or sediment-dwelling organisms
Our ecotoxicology team has extensive experience and expertise in the evaluation of difficult substances with challenging physico-chemical properties (e.g. low water solubility, instability, volatility, strong absorption or coloration).
The ecotoxicology team is supported by our modern analytical laboratories which offer analytical techniques suitable for use in all matrices encountered in ecotoxicological studies.