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

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English

Published date

12-29-2006

Publisher

British Standards Institution

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	BS ISO 16712 : 2005 AMD 16801 BS 6068-5.37(2005) : 2005 03/309714 DC : DRAFT AUG 2003

Standards	Relationship
NBN EN ISO 16712 : 2006	Identical
UNE-EN ISO 16712:2007	Identical
SN EN ISO 16712:2007	Identical
NF EN ISO 16712 : 2007	Identical
EN ISO 16712:2006	Identical
DIN EN ISO 16712:2007-02	Identical
ISO 16712:2005	Identical
NEN EN ISO 16712 : 2006	Identical
I.S. EN ISO 16712:2006	Identical
UNI EN ISO 16712 : 2007	Identical
NS EN ISO 16712 : 1ED 2007	Identical

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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