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Standard Practice for Using Octanol-Water Partition Coefficient to Estimate Median Lethal Concentrations for Fish Due to Narcosis
STANDARD published on 1.2.2008
Designation standards: ASTM E1242-97(2008)
Note: WITHDRAWN
Publication date standards: 1.2.2008
SKU: NS-40986
The number of pages: 2
Approximate weight : 6 g (0.01 lbs)
Country: American technical standard
Category: Technical standards ASTM
Keywords:
Alcohol, Aromatic compounds, Chemicals (environmental analysis), Ether, Fathead minnow, Fishes, Hydrocarbon solvents, Ketones, LC50 test, Lethal concentrations, Meyer-Overton toxicity, Narcosis, Octanol/water partition coefficient, Organic compounds--water, Pimephales promelas, Solvents--water applications, Test animals, Toxicity/toxicology--water environments, ICS Number Code 07.080 (Biology. Botany. Zoology)
Significance and Use | ||||||||
This procedure can be used to limit the need for screening tests prior to performing a test for estimating the LC50 of a non-reactive and non-electrolytic chemical to the fathead minnow. By eliminating the screening test, fewer fish need be tested. The time used for preparing and performing the screening test can also be saved. The value obtained in this procedure can be used as the preliminary estimate of the LC50 in a full-scale test. Estimates can be used to set testing priority of groups of non-reactive and non-electrolytic chemicals. If the estimated value is more than 0.3 times the experimental value, the mechanism of action is probably narcosis. If less, the effect concentration is considered to reflect a different mechanism of action. This practice estimates a maximum LC50, that is, non-reactive and non-electrolytic chemicals are at least as toxic as the practice predicts, but may have a lower LC50 if acting by a more specific mechanism. Data on a chemical indicating a lower toxicity than predicted should be considered suspect or an artifact because of limited solubility of the test material. |
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1. Scope | ||||||||
1.1 This practice covers a procedure for estimating the fathead minnow (Pimephales promelas) 96-h LC50 of nonreactive (that is, covalently bonded without unsaturated residues) and nonelectrolytic (that is, require vigorous reagents to facilitate substitution, addition, replacement reactions and are non-ionic, non-dissociating in aqueous solutions) organic chemicals acting solely by narcosis, also referred to as Meyer-Overton toxicity relationship. 1.2 This procedure is accurate for organic chemicals that are toxic due to narcosis and are non-reactive and non-electrolytic. Examples of appropriate chemicals are: alcohols, ketones, ethers, simple halogenated aliphatics, aromatics, and aliphatic substituted aromatics. It is not appropriate for chemicals whose structures include a potential toxiphore (that structural component of a chemical molecule that has been identified to show mammalian toxicity, for example CN is known to be reponsible for inactivation of enzymes, NO2 for decoupling of oxidative phosphorylation, both leading to mammalian toxicity). Examples of inappropriate chemicals are: carbamates, organophosphates, phenols, beta-gamma unsaturated alcohols, electrophiles, and quaternary ammonium salts. |
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