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Containers made of plastics, such as polyethylene, polypropylene, polyvinyl chloride, TYGON®, etc., may be used as test chambers or to ship, store and transfer effluents and receiving waters, but they should not be reused unless absolutely necessary, because they could carry over adsorbed toxicants from one test to another, if reused.
EPA acknowledges that reference toxicants prepared from pure chemicals may not always be representative of effluents.
Macek and Sleight (1977) found that exposure of critical life stages of fish to toxicants provides estimates of chronically safe concentrations remarkably similar to those derived from full life cycle toxicity tests.
No clear pattern of differences were noted in the intra- or inter-laboratory test precision with the species listed, although the test results with some toxicants, such as cadmium, appear to more variable than those with other reference toxicants.
1 Young organisms are often more sensitive to toxicants than are adults.
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