Chronic toxicity test definition
Chronic toxicity test means a toxicity test which measures a sublethal effect such as failed fertilization, development, growth, or reproduction. Organism survival is also a measured endpoint in some chronic toxicity tests.
Chronic toxicity test. ’ means a method used to determine the con- centration of a substance that produces an adverse effect from prolonged expo- sure of an organism to that substance. In this test, mortality, number of young per female and growth are used as measures of chronic toxicity.