OECD activities
OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development)
An important aspect of OECD’s chemicals safety program is to coordinate the development, standardisation, validation and publication of chemicals testing guidelines. In this process, expert groups can be established and members of these expert groups are nominated by the national coordinators of each member country. Staff members of ECT have been nominated as experts in the test guideline sections ‘Effects on biotic systems’ (e.g. testing of endocrine disrupting chemicals with fish and invertebrates) and ‘‘Environmental fate and behaviour’ (e.g. degradation and accumulation).
ECT contributed significantly to the standardisation of the following methods and guidelines:
- OECD 320: Anaerobic transformation of chemicals in liquid manure
Projects: Development of test guidance for transformation of veterinary pharmaceuticals and biocides in liquid manure and Harmonisation of experimental exposure assessment for veterinary pharmaceuticals and biocides - OECD 235: Chironomus sp., acute immobilisation test
- OECD 233: Sediment-water chironomid life-cycle toxicity test
- OECD 317: Bioaccumulation in terrestrial oligochaetes
Project: Validation of a method to measure bioaccumulation in terrestrial organisms… - OECD GD 122: Guidance document on the determination of the toxicity of a test chemical to the dung beetle Aphodius constans
Projects: Development of a standardised laboratory test with dung beetles…
and Supply of dung beetles for the performance of a ring test as a precondition… - OECD 226: Predatory mite (Hypoaspis (Geolaelaps) aculeifer) reproduction test in soil
Project: Preparation of a test guideline – Hypoaspis reproduction test – in particular… - OECD 228: Dung flies (Scathophaga stercoraria, Musca autumnalis) laboratory tests
Project: Determination of developmental toxicity of a test chemical to dipterian… - OECD 315: Bioaccumulation in sediment-dwelling benthic oligochaetes
Project: Validation of a sediment bioaccumulation test with endobenthic aquatic… - OECD 225: Sediment-water Lumbriculus toxicity test using spiked sediment
Project: Validation of a sediment toxicity test with the endobenthic aquatic oligochaete… - OECD GD 56: Breakdown of organic matter in litter bags in the field
- OECD 220: Enchytraeidae reproduction test
- OECD 222: Earthworm reproduction test (Eisenia fetida / Eisenia andrei)
