Ten new Test Guidelines and six updated Test Guidelines have been adopted by Council on 7 September 2009!

Ten new Test Guidelines and six updated Test Guidelines have been adopted by Council on 7 September 2009!

 

New Test Guidelines:

    

Section 2: Effects on Biotic Systems

 

229     

Fish Short Term Reproduction Assay

230 

21-Day Fish Assay: A Short Term Screening for 

 

Oestrogenic and Androgenic Activity

and Aromatase Inhibition

231  

Amphibian Metamorphosis Assay

232    

Collembolan Reproduction Test in Soil

Section 4: Health Effects

441

Hershberger Bioassay in Rats: A short-term 

Screening Assay for (Anti) Androgenic Properties

455 

Stably Transfected Human Estrogen Receptor-α

Transcriptional Activation Assay for the Detection

of Estrogenic Agonist-Activity of Chemicals

436 

Acute Inhalation Toxicity - Acute Toxic Class (ATC) Method

437

Bovine Corneal Opacity and Permeability (BCOP)

Test Method for Identifying Ocular

Corrosives and Severe Irritants

438

Isolated Chicken Eye (ICE) Test Method for 

Identifying Ocular Corrosives and Severe Irritants

 

                  

       Section 5: Other Test Guidelines

       509          Crop Field Trial

       Updated Test Guidelines:

       Section 4: Health Effects
               
       403             Acute Inhalation Toxicity 
       412             Subacute Inhalation Toxicity: 28-Day Study
       413             Subchronic Inhalation Toxicity: 90-Day Study
       451             Carcinogenicity Studies          
       452             Chronic Toxicity Studies
       453             Combined Chronic Toxicity/Carcinogenicity Studies

 

       

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...and also Guidance Document 1