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PARENT SESSION
30 - Validity and Reliability of Ecotoxicity Tests
8:30 AM to 12:20 PM, Tuesday, 14 May 2002
Session Chair: Tattersfield, Lisa 1, Dallinger, Reinhard 2, 1 2 .
Lehar B

8:30 AM - 30-01 - Pitfalls of toxicity reduction evaluation based on biotests for contaminated groundwater.
Küster, Eberhard*,1, Dorusch, Falk1, Weiss, Holger1, Altenburger, Rolf1, 1 UFZ Centre for Environmental Research Leipzig-Halle, Leipzig, Germany

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8:50 AM - 30-02 - Controlled Toxicant Delivery: A Novel in vivo Approach for Embryotoxicity Testing.
Kiparissis, Yiannis*,1,2, Akhtar, Parveen1, Alexander, Alexa1, Brown, Stephen1, Hodson, Peter1, 1 School of Environmental Studies, Queen's University, Kingston, ON2 Environmental and Resource Studies, Trent University, Peterborough, ON

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9:10 AM - 30-03 - Evaluation of a battery of prokaryotic stress gene assays for environmental toxicity screening purposes.
Dardenne, Freddy*,1,2, Vlaeminck, Andrea1, Willems, Kris1,2, Decoen, Wim1, Blust, Ronny1, 1 Department of Biology, Antwerp, Belgium, Belgium2 Food and Environmental Toxicology, Sint-Katelijne-Waver, Belgium, Belgium

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9:30 AM - 30-04 - Earthworm avoidance test for soil assessment - results of a laboratory comparison test.
Hund-Rinke, Kerstin*,1, Römbke, Jörg2, Achazi, Rudolf3, 1 Fraunhofer IME, 57377 Schmallenberg, Germany2 ECT Oekotoxikologie, 65439 Flörsheim, Germany3 FU Berlin, 14195 Berlin, Germany

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9:50 AM - 30-05 - Biotest-directed fractionation and identification: a suitable tool for determination of realistic exposure situations?
Grote, Matthias*,1, Walter, Helge1, Brack, Werner1, Vrana, Branislav1, Schüürmann, Gerrit1, Blanck, Hans2, Altenburger, Rolf1, 1 UFZ - Center for Environmental Research, Leipzig, Germany2 Botanical Institute, Göteborg, Sweden

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10:40 AM - 30-06 - Interpretation of existing fish bioconcentration guidelines and proposal for optimization.
Volz, Ernst*,1, Rufli, Hans2, Hamer, Mick3, Dorgerloh, Michael4, Zok, Sabine5, Kohl, Werner6, Gonzalez-Valero, Juan7, 1 Syngenta Crop Protection AG, Basel, Switzerland2 Syngenta Crop Protection AG, Basel, Switzerland3 Syngenta Crop Protection AG, Jealotts Hill, UK4 Bayer AG, Monheim, Germany5 BASF AG, Ludwigshafen, Germany6 BASF AG, Limburgerhof, Germany7 Syngenta Crop Protection, Inc., Greensboro, NC, USA

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11:00 AM - 30-07 - Toxicity of PAH - Is the bioluminescence inhibition test an appropriate measure?
Hirmann, Doris*,1, Rost, Helmut1, Braun, Rudolf1, Loibner, Andreas1, 1 IFA-Tulln, Konrad Lorenz Strasse 20, Tulln, Austria

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11:20 AM - 30-08 - Bioavailability in Standardized Soil Toxicity Tests: Fact or Fiction?
Lanno, Roman*,1, Basta, Nick2, Bradham, Karen3, Booth, Lynn1, 1 Department of Entomology, Columbus, OH, USA2 Department of Plant and Soil Sciences, Stillwater, OK, USA3 Department of Zoology, Stillwater, OK, USA

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11:40 AM - 30-09 - Confounding factors in sediment toxicity tests with Chironomus riparius: Experiences from tests with Lindane.
Goedkoop, Willem*,1, 1 Department of Environmental Assessment, Uppsala, Sweden

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12:00 PM - 30-10 - Octanol-water partition coefficient and presence of gills influence uptake route of PAH compounds from sediment.
Gaskell, Paul*,1, Maltby, Lorraine1, Marshall, Stuart2, 1 University of Sheffield, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, UK2 Unilever Research, Sharnbrook, Bedfordshire

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