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The use of short-term toxicity tests in the NPDES Program is especially attractive because they provide a more direct estimate of the safe concentrations of effluents in receiving waters than was provided by acute toxicity tests, at an only slightly increased level of effort, compared to the fish full life-cycle chronic and 28-day ELS tests and the 28-day mysid life-cycle test.
Because the chemical composition of effluents is usually only poorly known, they must be considered as potential health hazards, and exposure to them should be minimized.
USEPA (1987f) evaluated two industrial effluents containing heavy metals, five industrial effluents containing organic chemicals (including dyes and pesticides), and 15 domestic wastewaters using the two-day red macroalga, Champia parvula, sexual reproduction test.
USEPA acknowledges that reference toxicants prepared from pure chemicals may not always be representative of effluents.
Growth was frequently found to be more sensitive than survival in determining the effects of complex effluents.