14984 IUPAC Gold Book - reference toxicity test 10.1351/goldbook.14984 14984 current 1 Test conducted in conjunction with sediment tests to determine possible changes in condition of the test species. Deviations from an established normal range indicate a change in the condition of the test organism population. Reference toxicant tests are most often acute lethality tests performed in the absence of sediment. Sediment spiked with a toxicant might also be included as a positive control for the sediment toxicity test. population https://goldbook.iupac.org//terms/view/14932 PAC, 2009, 81, 829. 'Glossary of terms used in ecotoxicology (IUPAC Recommendations 2009)' on page 937 (https://doi.org/10.1351/PAC-REC-08-07-09) https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/14984/html https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/14984/json https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/14984/plain Citation: 'reference toxicity test' in IUPAC Compendium of Chemical Terminology, 5th ed. International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry; 2025. Online version 5.0.0, 2025. 10.1351/goldbook.14984 The IUPAC Gold Book is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike CC BY-SA 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) for individual terms. If you are interested in licensing the Gold Book for commercial use, please contact the IUPAC Executive Director at executivedirector@iupac.org . The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) is continuously reviewing and, where needed, updating terms in the Compendium of Chemical Terminology (the IUPAC Gold Book). Users of these terms are encouraged to include the version of a term with its use and to check regularly for updates to term definitions that you are using. 2026-08-01T11:56:04+00:00