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Toxicity of oil-spill removers (‘detergents’) to marine life: an assessment using the intertidal barnacle Elminius modestus

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 May 2009

E. D. S. Corner ,
A. J. Southward  and
E. C. Southward
E. D. S. Corner
Affiliation:
The Plymouth Laboratory
A. J. Southward
Affiliation:
The Plymouth Laboratory
E. C. Southward
Affiliation:
The Plymouth Laboratory
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The oil-spill removers BP 1002, Gamlen, Slipclean and Dasic have been tested for toxicity using the barnacle Elminius modestus Darwin. All four substances were more toxic than the laboratory detergent Teepol-L, and Kuwait crude oil. BP 1002 was the most toxic of the oil-spill removers, and Dasic the least, but all were poisonous at concentrations between 2 and 10 ppm.

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Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom , Volume 48 , Issue 1 , February 1968 , pp. 29 - 47
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Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 1968

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