Bioaccumulation in Sediment: Dwelling Benthic Oligochaetes

A method to assess bioaccumulation of sediment-associated chemicals in endobenthic oligochaetes worms. It applies to stable, neutral organic chemicals having log Kow values between 3.0 and 6.0, superlipophilic substances that show a log Kow of more than 6.0, or stable metallo-organic compounds which tend to associate with sediments.

Invertebrate, Chronic, Freshwater.

OECD (2008), Test No. 315: Bioaccumulation in Sediment-dwelling Benthic Oligochaetes, OECD Guidelines for the Testing of Chemicals, Section 3, OECD Publishing, Paris, https://doi.org/10.1787/9789264067516-en.