EcoToxicity Testing

EcoToxicity testing allows you to evaluate the impact of your product on the environment, including the downstream toxic effects on fish, water, plants and soil.

By conducting laboratory, field, or greenhouse ecotoxicity testing studies at EcoSafe, we can help you determine both the short and long term impacts of your product under a controlled environment, including how readily a formula biodegrades or persists as residues.

EcoSafe’s dedicated EcoToxicity testing lab boasts a 1200 square foot greenhouse, apiary and field site. We are well equipped to assess ecotoxic effects, as well as develop and validate any analytical methods as required.

A sample of EcoToxicity tests we are able to offer:

  • OCSPP 850.1010 – Aquatic Invertebrate Acute Toxicity Test, Freshwater Daphnids 

  • OCSPP 850.1075 – Freshwater Fish Acute Toxicity Test

  • OCSPP 850.3100 – Earthworm Subchronic Toxicity Test

  • OCSPP 850.3020 – Honey Bee Acute Contact Toxicity Test

  • OCSPP 850.3030 – Honey Bee Toxicity of Residues on Foliage

  • OCSPP 850.4100 – Seedling Emergence and Seedling Growth

  • OCSPP 850.4150 – Vegetative Vigor

  • OCSPP 850.4230 – Early Seedling Growth Toxicity Test

  • OCSPP 850.4400 – Aquatic Plant Toxicity Test Using Lemna spp.