Before agrochemicals can be registered and sold, the chemical industry is required to perform regulatory tests to assess their environmental persistence, using defined guidelines. Aquatic fate tests (e.g.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFRegulatory tests assess crop protection product environmental fate and toxicity before approval for commercial use. Although globally applied laboratory tests can assess biodegradation, they lack environmental complexity. Microbial communities are subject to temporal and spatial variation, but there is little consideration of these microbial dynamics in the laboratory.
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