Schirmer, K., Knoebel, M., & Tanneberger, K. (2013). Gill cells – an alternative to whole fish for toxicity tests. Eawag Newsletter [engl. ed.] (2), 1-7.
In order to protect human health and the environment, chemicals have to undergo risk assessment before they come onto the market. For this purpose, thousands of animal tests are carried out every year. Eawag researchers have now shown that the acute toxicity of chemicals to fish can also be reliably predicted with a rainbow trout gill cell line. An international round robin test marks the next step on the long road to certification of the new assay.
