7-day chronic freshwater toxicity test
Hydrosphere can perform the 7-day chronic freshwater toxicity test, providing chronic and modified acute toxicity data as outlined in the EPA’s FRESHWATER CHRONIC TOXICITY TEST PROCEDURE AND PROTOCOL
http://www.epa.gov/region1/npdes/permits/generic/freshwaterchronictoxtest-rev.pdf
How do surfactants and oil effect the marine environment?
Hydrosphere Research offered up laboratory space, equipment and supervision to a local Gainesville High School student. The student’s project was titled “How do surfactants and oil effect the marine environment?” This project was for a Cambridge Advanced International Certificate of Education(AICE) Environmental Management course taught by Margaret Paxon.
The student came to Hydrosphere initially for a lab tour and to meet the lab technician that would be helping. The student showed up every day for 4 days to monitor her experiment.
Upon presenting her project, Ms. Paxon was quoted as saying “I thought it was a very unique and creative project that seemed like it would yield interesting results”.
The student was quoted as saying ” it was great to have a real lab to work in. I can’t thank Hydrosphere enough for the help they gave”.
Hydrosphere is happy to help out the future scientist of the world and loves to see students interested in our work!
The Importance of Regulating Toxicity
In 2013 in El Salvador, toxicity proved fatal for hundreds of agricultural workers. The Ministry of Health estimates that since 2002 over 5,000 people have died due to kidney disease that they attribute to the lack of regulation of pesticides. The Ministry of Health is trying to push for legislation to control the amount of pesticides used. Unlike in Central America, Hydrosphere is one of the main companies that works to regulate and decrease toxicity in America.