Ecotoxicity of Chemicals to Photobacterium Phosphoreum PDF

PREFACE

Ecotoxicity of Chemicals to Photobacterium phosphoreum reviews data obtained with the Microtox^® test system. It contains toxicity results on more than 1 ,250 chemicals obtained from literature or private sources. This book is essential reading for researchers and administrators in industry, university and government, in fields ranging from health and welfare, to environmental effects and controls of chemicals.

We acknowledge with pleasure the courtesy of N. A. Casseri (Occidental Chemical Corporation, New York, USA), M. T. D. Cronin (Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool, UK), C. Reteuna (French Ministry of the Environment, Paris, France), R. Speece (Drexel University, Philadelphia, USA), and P. Vasseur (University of Metz, Metz, France) for providing information on their results. We are also indebted to A. A. Bulich (Microbics Corporation, Carlsbad, USA) for communicating taxonomic information related to the strain NRRL-B-11177.

The preparation of this handbook would not have been possible without the help ofM. B. McKinnon, V. S. Palabrica (National Water Research Institute, Burlington, Canada), S. Bintein, and D. Domine (CTIS, Lyon, France).

Authors: Klaus L. E. Kaiser,James Devillers