The following resources contain scientific literature about reduction, refinement or replacement (3Rs alternatives) in ecotoxicity testing.
Ecotoxicity Testing
Toxicity Testing in the 21st Century – A Vision and a Strategy
The National Research Council was asked by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to review the state of the science and create a far-reaching vision for the future of toxicity testing. Developing, improving, and validating new laboratory tools could improve our ability to understand the hazards and risks posed by chemicals. This would lead to more informed environmental regulations and dramatically reduce the need for animal testing because the new tests would be based on human cells and cell components.
EURL ECVAM: Accepted Alternative Methods for Toxicity Testing
The European Union Reference Laboratory for alternatives to animal testing (EURL) ECVAM has contributed to the validation of the test methods. The validation of other test methods has been undertaken by ICATM (International Cooperation on Alternative Test Methods) partners.
ICE: Integrated Chemical Environment, National Toxicology Program Interagency Center for the Evaluation of Alternative Toxicological Methods (NICEATM)
Successful computational toxicology projects depend on high-quality data that are freely available and formatted for use in computational workflows. The Integrated Chemical Environment (ICE) addresses the data needs frequently expressed by NICEATM stakeholders. Launched in March 2017, ICE provides curated data from NICEATM, its partners, and other resources, as well as tools to facilitate the safety assessment of chemicals.
Interagency Coordinating Committee on the Validation of Alternative Methods (ICCVAM)
ICCVAM is a permanent committee of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences and is composed of representatives from sixteen federal regulatory and research agencies, including USDA. One of the goals of ICCVAM is to reduce, refine, or replace the use of animals in toxicological and safety testing where feasible.
NICEATM: Accepted Alternative Methods
The NTP Interagency Center for the Evaluation of Alternative Toxicological Methods (NICEATM) is an NTP office focused on the development and evaluation of alternatives to animal use for chemical safety testing. The topics in this section provide information about approaches used to replace, reduce, or refine animal use while ensuring that the toxic potential of substances is appropriately characterized.
NICEATM Alternative Methods: Computational Toxicology Projects
Computational toxicology uses mathematics, informatics and computer models to better understand toxicity mechanisms and predict toxic effects. On this page you will also find links to the Integrated Chemical Environment (ICE), which provides data and tools to help with the development of new testing approaches. You will also find information on the Open Structure-activity/property Relationship APP (OPERA), which provides predictions on physiochemical properties, environmental fate, and toxicity endpoints.
TSAR (Tracking Systems for Alternative Methods towards Regulatory acceptance), EURL-EVCAM
TSAR tracks the progress of alternative, non-animal methods, for testing chemicals or biological agents such as vaccines towards acceptance as a recognized test method for use in various sectors.
Below is a selected bibliography of scholarly literature from 2010 to 2020 on 3Rs approaches to replace, reduce and refine animal use in ecotoxicity testing.
Multiple 3Rs Testing Methods in Ecotoxicity
Ashauer, R., & Jager, T. (2018). Physiological modes of action across species and toxicants: The key to predictive ecotoxicology. Environmental Science. Processes & Impacts, 20(1), 48–57. https://doi.org/10.1039/c7em00328e
Baderna, D., Lomazzi, E., Passoni, A., Pogliaghi, A., Petoumenou, M. I., Bagnati, R., Lodi, M., Viarengo, A., Sforzini, S., Benfenati, E., & Fanelli, R. (2015). Chemical characterization and ecotoxicity of three soil foaming agents used in mechanized tunneling. Journal of Hazardous Materials, 296, 210–220. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhazmat.2015.04.040
Bols, N. C., & Hermens, J. L. M. (2008). Developing a list of reference chemicals for testing alternatives to whole fish toxicity tests. Aquatic Toxicology (Amsterdam, Netherlands), 90(2), 128–137. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aquatox.2008.08.005
Burden, N., Benstead, R., Clook, M., Doyle, I., Edwards, P., Maynard, S. K., Ryder, K., Sheahan, D., Whale, G., van Egmond, R., Wheeler, J. R., & Hutchinson, T. H. (2016). Advancing the 3Rs in regulatory ecotoxicology: A pragmatic cross-sector approach. Integrated Environmental Assessment and Management, 12(3), 417–421. https://doi.org/10.1002/ieam.1703
Cho, S., & Yoon, J.-Y. (2017). Organ-on-a-chip for assessing environmental toxicants. Current Opinion in Biotechnology, 45, 34–42. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.copbio.2016.11.019
Coady, K. K., Biever, R. C., Denslow, N. D., Gross, M., Guiney, P. D., Holbech, H., Karouna-Renier, N. K., Katsiadaki, I., Krueger, H., Levine, S. L., Maack, G., Williams, M., Wolf, J. C., & Ankley, G. T. (2017). Current limitations and recommendations to improve testing for the environmental assessment of endocrine active substances. Integrated Environmental Assessment and Management, 13(2), 302–316. https://doi.org/10.1002/ieam.1862
Croce, R., Cina, F., Lombardo, A., Crispeyn, G., Cappelli, C. I., Vian, M., Maiorana, S., Benfenati, E., & Baderna, D. (2017). Aquatic toxicity of several textile dye formulations: Acute and chronic assays with Daphnia magna and Raphidocelis subcapitata. Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety, 144, 79–87. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoenv.2017.05.046
Fahd, F., Khan, F., Veitch, B., & Yang, M. (2017). Aquatic ecotoxicological models and their applicability in Arctic regions. Marine Pollution Bulletin, 120(1–2), 428–437. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpolbul.2017.03.072
Henneberg, A., Bender, K., Blaha, L., Giebner, S., Kuch, B., Kohler, H.-R., Maier, D., Oehlmann, J., Richter, D., Scheurer, M., Schulte-Oehlmann, U., Sieratowicz, A., Ziebart, S., & Triebskorn, R. (2014). Are in vitro methods for the detection of endocrine potentials in the aquatic environment predictive for in vivo effects? Outcomes of the Projects SchussenAktiv and SchussenAktivplus in the Lake Constance Area, Germany. PloS One, 9(6), e98307. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0098307
Hultman, M. T., Loken, K. B., Grung, M., Reid, M. J., & Lillicrap, A. (2019). Performance of Three-Dimensional Rainbow Trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) Hepatocyte Spheroids for Evaluating Biotransformation of Pyrene. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, 38(8), 1738–1747. https://doi.org/10.1002/etc.4476
Kollar, T., Kasa, E., Ferincz, A., Urbanyi, B., Csenki-Bakos, Z., & Horvath, A. (2018). Development of an in vitro toxicological test system based on zebrafish (Danio rerio) sperm analysis. Environmental Science and Pollution Research International, 25(15), 14426–14436. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-018-1613-2
Madden, J. C., Rogiers, V., & Vinken, M. (2014). Application of in silico and in vitro methods in the development of adverse outcome pathway constructs in wildlife. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological Sciences, 369(1656). https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2013.0584
Miller, T. H., Gallidabino, M. D., MacRae, J. I., Owen, S. F., Bury, N. R., & Barron, L. P. (2019). Prediction of bioconcentration factors in fish and invertebrates using machine learning. The Science of the Total Environment, 648, 80–89. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2018.08.122
Mondou, M., Hickey, G. M., Rahman, H. T., Maguire, S., Pain, G., Crump, D., Hecker, M., & Basu, N. (2020). Factors Affecting the Perception of New Approach Methodologies (NAMs) in the Ecotoxicology Community. Integrated Environmental Assessment and Management, 16(2), 269–281. https://doi.org/10.1002/ieam.4244
Neale, P. A., Ait-Aissa, S., Brack, W., Creusot, N., Denison, M. S., Deutschmann, B., Hilscherová, K., Hollert, H., Krauss, M., Novák, J., Schulze, T., Seiler, T.-B., Serra, H., Shao, Y., & Escher, B. I. (2015). Linking in Vitro Effects and Detected Organic Micropollutants in Surface Water Using Mixture-Toxicity Modeling. Environmental Science & Technology, 49(24), 14614–14624. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.5b04083
Nendza, M., Kuhne, R., Lombardo, A., Strempel, S., & Schuurmann, G. (2018). PBT assessment under REACH: Screening for low aquatic bioaccumulation with QSAR classifications based on physicochemical properties to replace BCF in vivo testing on fish. The Science of the Total Environment, 616–617, 97–106. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2017.10.317
Patlewicz, G. Y., & Lander, D. R. (2013). A step change towards risk assessment in the 21st century. Frontiers in Bioscience (Elite Edition), 5, 418–434. https://doi.org/10.2741/e625
Rehberger, K., Kropf, C., & Segner, H. (2018). In vitro or not in vitro: a short journey through a long history. Environmental sciences Europe, 30, 23. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12302-018-0151-3
Schirmer, K., Tanneberger, K., Kramer, N. I., Völker, D., Scholz, S., Hafner, C., Lee, L. E. J., Tralau, T., Riebeling, C., Pirow, R., Oelgeschläger, M., Seiler, A., Liebsch, M., & Luch, A. (2012). Wind of change challenges toxicological regulators. Environmental Health Perspectives, 120(11), 1489–1494. https://doi.org/10.1289/ehp.1104782
Vonk, J. A., Benigni, R., Hewitt, M., Nendza, M., Segner, H., van de Meent, D., & Cronin, M. T. D. (2009). The use of mechanisms and modes of toxic action in integrated testing strategies: The report and recommendations of a workshop held as part of the European Union OSIRIS Integrated Project. Alternatives to Laboratory Animals : ATLA, 37(5), 557–571. https://doi.org/10.1177/026119290903700512
Walker, C. H. (2008). Ecotoxicity testing: Science, politics and ethics. Alternatives to Laboratory Animals : ATLA, 36(1), 103–112. https://doi.org/10.1177/026119290803600111
In Vitro Methodologies
Baron, M. G., Purcell, W. M., Jackson, S. K., Owen, S. F., & Jha, A. N. (2012). Towards a more representative in vitro method for fish ecotoxicology: Morphological and biochemical characterisation of three-dimensional spheroidal hepatocytes. Ecotoxicology (London, England), 21(8), 2419–2429. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10646-012-0965-5
Cervena, T., Vrbova, K., Rossnerova, A., Topinka, J., & Rossner, P., Jr. (2019). Short-term and Long-term Exposure of the MucilAirTM Model to Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons. Alternatives to Laboratory Animals : ATLA, 47(1), 9–18. Scopus. https://doi.org/10.1177/0261192919841484
Curtis, T. M., Collins, A. M., Gerlach, B. D., Brennan, L. M., Widder, M. W., van der Schalie, W. H., Vo, N. T. K., & Bols, N. C. (2013). Suitability of invertebrate and vertebrate cells in a portable impedance-based toxicity sensor: Temperature mediated impacts on long-term survival. Toxicology in Vitro : An International Journal Published in Association with BIBRA, 27(7), 2061–2066. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tiv.2013.07.007
Embry, M. R., Belanger, S. E., Braunbeck, T. A., Galay-Burgos, M., Halder, M., Hinton, D. E., Léonard, M. A., Lillicrap, A., Norberg-King, T., & Whale, G. (2010). The fish embryo toxicity test as an animal alternative method in hazard and risk assessment and scientific research. Aquatic Toxicology (Amsterdam, Netherlands), 97(2), 79–87. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aquatox.2009.12.008
Gerbron, M., Geraudie, P., Rotchell, J., & Minier, C. (2010). A new in vitro screening bioassay for the ecotoxicological evaluation of the estrogenic responses of environmental chemicals using roach (Rutilus rutilus) liver explant culture. Environmental Toxicology, 25(5), 510–516. https://doi.org/10.1002/tox.20596
Green, B. T., Lee, S. T., Davis, T. Z., & Welch, K. D. (2020). Microsomal activation, and SH-SY5Y cell toxicity studies of tremetone and 6-hydroxytremetone isolated from rayless goldenrod (Isocoma pluriflora) and white snakeroot (Agertina altissima), respectively. Toxicon: X, 5, 100018. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.toxcx.2019.100018
Heinrich, P., Diehl, U., Förster, F., & Braunbeck, T. (2014). Improving the in vitro ethoxyresorufin-O-deethylase (EROD) assay with RTL-W1 by metabolic normalization and use of β-naphthoflavone as the reference substance. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology. Toxicology & Pharmacology : CBP, 164, 27–34. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cbpc.2014.04.005
Huang, S., Wiszniewski, L., Constant, S., & Roggen, E. (2013). Potential of in vitro reconstituted 3D human airway epithelia (MucilAirTM) to assess respiratory sensitizers. Toxicology in Vitro, 27(3), 1151–1156. Scopus. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tiv.2012.10.010
Lee, S. T., Stonecipher, C. A., dos Santos, F. C., Pfister, J. A., Welch, K. D., Cook, D., Green, B. T., Gardner, D. R., & Panter, K. E. (2019). An Evaluation of Hair, Oral Fluid, Earwax, and Nasal Mucus as Noninvasive Specimens to Determine Livestock Exposure to Teratogenic Lupine Species. Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, 67(1), 43–49. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jafc.8b05673
Norberg-King, T. J., Embry, M. R., Belanger, S. E., Braunbeck, T., Butler, J. D., Dorn, P. B., Farr, B., Guiney, P. D., Hughes, S. A., Jeffries, M., Journel, R., Lèonard, M., McMaster, M., Oris, J. T., Ryder, K., Segner, H., Senac, T., Van Der Kraak, G., Whale, G., & Wilson, P. (2018). An International Perspective on the Tools and Concepts for Effluent Toxicity Assessments in the Context of Animal Alternatives: Reduction in Vertebrate Use. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, 37(11), 2745–2757. https://doi.org/10.1002/etc.4259
Saeed, S., Al-Naema, N., Butler, J. D., & Febbo, E. J. (2015). Arabian killifish (Aphanius dispar) embryos: A model organism for the risk assessment of the Arabian Gulf coastal waters. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, 34(12), 2898–2905. https://doi.org/10.1002/etc.3167
Stelzer, J. A. A., Rosin, C. K., Bauer, L. H., Hartmann, M., Pulgati, F. H., & Arenzon, A. (2018). Is fish embryo test (FET) according to OECD 236 sensible enough for delivering quality data for effluent risk assessment? Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, 37(11), 2925–2932. https://doi.org/10.1002/etc.4215
Stonecipher, C. A., Lee, S. T., Green, B. T., Cook, D., Welch, K. D., Pfister, J. A., & Gardner, D. R. (2019). Evaluation of noninvasive specimens to diagnose livestock exposure to toxic larkspur (Delphinium spp.). Toxicon : Official Journal of the International Society on Toxinology, 161, 33–39. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.toxicon.2019.02.013
Wagner, M., Kienle, C., Vermeirssen, E. L. M., & Oehlmann, J. (2017). Endocrine Disruption and In Vitro Ecotoxicology: Recent Advances and Approaches. Advances in Biochemical Engineering/Biotechnology, 157, 1–58. https://doi.org/10.1007/10_2016_2
Zeng, F., Sherry, J. P., & Bols, N. C. (2016). Use of the rainbow trout cell lines, RTgill-W1 and RTL-W1 to evaluate the toxic potential of benzotriazoles. Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety, 124, 315–323. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoenv.2015.11.003
In Chemico Methodologies
Trush, M., Metelytsia, L., Semenyuta, I., Kalashnikova, L., Papeykin, O., Venger, I., Tarasyuk, O., Bodachivska, L., Blagodatnyi, V., & Rogalsky, S. (2019). Reduced ecotoxicity and improved biodegradability of cationic biocides based on ester-functionalized pyridinium ionic liquids. Environmental Science and Pollution Research International, 26(5), 4878–4889. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-018-3924-8
In Silico Methodologies
Bell, S. M., Angrish, M. M., Wood, C. E., & Edwards, S. W. (2016). Integrating Publicly Available Data to Generate Computationally Predicted Adverse Outcome Pathways for Fatty Liver. Toxicological Sciences : An Official Journal of the Society of Toxicology, 150(2), 510–520. https://doi.org/10.1093/toxsci/kfw017
Cao, D.-S., Zhao, J.-C., Yang, Y.-N., Zhao, C.-X., Yan, J., Liu, S., Hu, Q.-N., Xu, Q.-S., & Liang, Y.-Z. (2012). In silico toxicity prediction by support vector machine and SMILES representation-based string kernel. SAR and QSAR in Environmental Research, 23(1–2), 141–153. https://doi.org/10.1080/1062936X.2011.645874
Connors, K. A., Beasley, A., Barron, M. G., Belanger, S. E., Bonnell, M., Brill, J. L., de Zwart, D., Kienzler, A., Krailler, J., Otter, R., Phillips, J. L., & Embry, M. R. (2019). Creation of a Curated Aquatic Toxicology Database: EnviroTox. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, 38(5), 1062–1073. https://doi.org/10.1002/etc.4382
Cronin, M. T. D. (2017). (Q)SARs to predict environmental toxicities: Current status and future needs. Environmental Science. Processes & Impacts, 19(3), 213–220. https://doi.org/10.1039/c6em00687f
Das, R. N., Roy, K., & Popelier, P. L. A. (2015). Interspecies quantitative structure-toxicity-toxicity (QSTTR) relationship modeling of ionic liquids. Toxicity of ionic liquids to V. fischeri, D. magna and S. vacuolatus. Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety, 122, 497–520. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoenv.2015.09.014
Galimberti, F., Moretto, A., & Papa, E. (2020). Application of chemometric methods and QSAR models to support pesticide risk assessment starting from ecotoxicological datasets. Water Research, 174, 115583. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.watres.2020.115583
Jager, T., & Kooijman, S. A. L. M. (2009). A biology-based approach for quantitative structure-activity relationships (QSARs) in ecotoxicity. Ecotoxicology (London, England), 18(2), 187–196. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10646-008-0271-4
Judson, R., Houck, K., Martin, M., Knudsen, T., Thomas, R. S., Sipes, N., Shah, I., Wambaugh, J., & Crofton, K. (2014). In vitro and modelling approaches to risk assessment from the U.S. environmental protection agency ToxCast programme. Basic and Clinical Pharmacology and Toxicology, 115(1), 69–76. Scopus. https://doi.org/10.1111/bcpt.12239
Kar, S., Roy, K., & Leszczynski, J. (2018). Impact of Pharmaceuticals on the Environment: Risk Assessment Using QSAR Modeling Approach. Methods in Molecular Biology (Clifton, N.J.), 1800, 395–443. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-7899-1_19
Kleinstreuer, N. C., Karmaus, A. L., Mansouri, K., Allen, D. G., Fitzpatrick, J. M., & Patlewicz, G. (2018). Predictive models for acute oral systemic toxicity: A workshop to bridge the gap from research to regulation. Computational Toxicology, 8, 21–24. Scopus. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.comtox.2018.08.002
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