NIWA has wide-ranging expertise in toxicology testing.
Examples of commercial and research toxicity testing:
- new pesticides for wastewater treatment ponds
- evaluation of effluent treatment strategies
- risk assessment of emerging chemicals of concern
- risk assessment of mine leachates into freshwater streams
- development of site-specific guidelines for contaminants (ANZECC methodology)
- literature and database search for novel piscicides (pest fish control
- compounds) suitable for New Zealand
- design and implementation of monitoring programmes to comply with resource
- consent conditions of marine and freshwater sewage outfalls
- registration of herbicides with ERMA
- dredge spoil toxicity
- assessment of storm-water toxicity in urban streams
NIWA ecotoxicology team expertise:
- compliance with the Resource Management Act
- resource consents
- risk assessment
- toxicity testing (lab and field)
- toxicity identification and evaluation (TIE)
- in-situ biomonitoring
- contaminant bioavailability
- product research (ecotoxicity literature and database searches)
- assessment of environmental effects (AEE)
- product registration with ERMA
- ANZECC Guidelines
- whole effluent toxicity testing (WETT)
- sediment testing
- native New Zealand invertebrates and fish
- chemistry (organic and inorganic)
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