Development and validation of an OECD reproductive toxicity test guideline with the mudsnail Potamopyrgus antipodarum (Mollusca, Gastropoda)

Mollusks are known to be uniquely sensitive to a number of reproductive toxicants including some vertebrate endocrine disrupting chemicals. However, they have widely been ignored in environmental risk assessment procedures for chemicals. This study describes the validation of the Potamopyrgus antipo...

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Published in:Chemosphere (Oxford) 2017-08, Vol.181, p.589-599
Main Authors: Ruppert, Katharina, Geiß, Cornelia, Askem, Clare, Benstead, Rachel, Brown, Rebecca, Coke, Maira, Ducrot, Virginie, Egeler, Philipp, Holbech, Henrik, Hutchinson, Thomas H., Kinnberg, Karin L., Lagadic, Laurent, Le Page, Gareth, Macken, Ailbhe, Matthiessen, Peter, Ostermann, Sina, Schimera, Agnes, Schmitt, Claudia, Seeland-Fremer, Anne, Smith, Andy J., Weltje, Lennart, Oehlmann, Jörg
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Animals
Cadmium
Cadmium - toxicity
Endocrine disruption
Endocrine Disruptors - toxicity
Guidelines as Topic - standards
Life Sciences
Mollusk
Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development - standards
Reproduction
Reproduction - drug effects
Snails - drug effects
Standardisation
Toxicity Tests - methods
Toxicity Tests - standards
Trialkyltin Compounds - toxicity
Tributyltin
Water Pollutants, Chemical - toxicity
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Summary:Mollusks are known to be uniquely sensitive to a number of reproductive toxicants including some vertebrate endocrine disrupting chemicals. However, they have widely been ignored in environmental risk assessment procedures for chemicals. This study describes the validation of the Potamopyrgus antipodarum reproduction test within the OECD Conceptual Framework for Endocrine Disrupters Testing and Assessment. The number of embryos in the brood pouch and adult mortality serve as main endpoints. The experiments are conducted as static systems in beakers filled with artificial medium, which is aerated trough glass pipettes. The test chemical is dispersed into the medium, and adult snails are subsequently introduced into the beakers. After 28 days the reproductive success is determined by opening the brood pouch and embryo counting. This study presents the results of two validation studies of the reproduction test with eleven laboratories and the chemicals tributyltin (TBT) with nominal concentrations ranging from 10 to 1000 ng TBT-Sn/L and cadmium with concentrations from 1.56 to 25 μg/L. The test design could be implemented by all laboratories resulting in comparable effect concentrations for the endpoint number of embryos in the brood pouch. After TBT exposure mean EC10, EC50, NOEC and LOEC were 35.6, 127, 39.2 and 75.7 ng Sn/L, respectively. Mean effect concentrations in cadmium exposed snails were, respectively, 6.53, 14.2, 6.45 and 12.6 μg/L. The effect concentrations are in good accordance with already published data. Both validation studies show that the reproduction test with P. antipodarum is a well-suited tool to assess reproductive effects of chemicals. •A new OECD reproductive toxicity test guideline with the New Zealand mudsnail Potamopyrgus antipodarum has been developed.•A draft test protocol was used to assess effects of cadmium and TBT in 11 laboratories in a validation study.•Effect values were reproducible and consistent with literature data.•Successful validation of the protocol was acknowledged by OECD by final acceptance of the test guideline in 2016.
ISSN:0045-6535
1879-1298
DOI:10.1016/j.chemosphere.2017.04.114