Results from a multi-laboratory validation of a new marine biodegradation screening test for chemical persistence assessment Amelie Irmgard Gerlinde Ott Timothy J. Martin Kishor Acharya Nik Robinson Bob Rowles Jason R Snape Ian Still Graham F Whale Vurtice C. Albright III Petra Bäverbäck Nicola Best Ruth Commander Curtis Eickhoff Sarah Finn Björn Hidding Heiko Maischak Katherine A. Sowders Masanori Taruki Helen E. Walton Aina Charlotte Wennberg Russell J. Davenport Delina Lyon 10.25405/data.ncl.9938198.v1 https://data.ncl.ac.uk/articles/dataset/Results_from_a_multi-laboratory_validation_of_a_new_marine_biodegradation_screening_test_for_chemical_persistence_assessment/9938198 International ring test with 13 laboratories validated a new test for marine biodegradation with a focus on more reliable persistence screening.<div><br></div><div>New test (imBSTMR) incorporates increased bacterial cell numbers and runs beyond 60 days.</div><div><br></div><div>New test provides a more reliable and less variable characterisation of the biodegradation of five reference compounds (sodium benzoate, triethanolamine, 4-nitrophenol, anionic polyacrylamide, pentachlorophenol), with respect to non-persistence thresholds, than the current OECD 306 method.</div><div><br></div><div>For more information on the methods and results, please see the paper Ott et al., 2020, Multi-laboratory validation of a new marine biodegradation screening test for chemical persistence assessment - manuscript submitted for publication</div> 2019-12-11 14:32:40 OECD 306 Biodegradation screening test Persistence assessment Tangential flow filtration REACH Marine Seawater Environmental Engineering not elsewhere classified