Withdrawn Rationale:

This test guide is designed to give general guidance for assessing the potential phytotoxicity of water soluble test material to freshwater emergent macrophytes.

Formerly under the jurisdiction of Committee E50 on Environmental Assessment, Risk Management and Corrective Action, this guide was withdrawn in January 2021 in accordance with section 10.6.3 of the Regulations Governing ASTM Technical Committees, which requires that standards shall be updated by the end of the eighth year since the last approval date.

2. Referenced Documents (purchase separately) The documents listed below are referenced within the subject standard but are not provided as part of the standard.

ASTM Standards

D3731 Practices for Measurement of Chlorophyll Content of Algae in Surface Waters

E729 Guide for Conducting Acute Toxicity Tests on Test Materials with Fishes, Macroinvertebrates, and Amphibians

E943 Terminology Relating to Biological Effects and Environmental Fate

E1023 Guide for Assessing the Hazard of a Material to Aquatic Organisms and Their Uses

E1192 Guide for Conducting Acute Toxicity Tests on Aqueous Ambient Samples and Effluents with Fishes, Macroinvertebrates, and Amphibians

E1193 Guide for Conducting Daphnia magna Life-Cycle Toxicity Tests

E1218 Guide for Conducting Static Toxicity Tests with Microalgae

E1391 Guide for Collection, Storage, Characterization, and Manipulation of Sediments for Toxicological Testing and for Selection of Samplers Used to Collect Benthic Invertebrates

E1598 Practice for Conducting Early Seedling Growth Tests

E1706 Test Method for Measuring the Toxicity of Sediment-Associated Contaminants with Freshwater Invertebrates

E1733 Guide for Use of Lighting in Laboratory Testing

Referencing This Standard

DOI: 10.1520/E1841-04R12

Citation Format

ASTM E1841-04(2012), Standard Guide for Conducting Renewal Phytotoxicity Tests With Freshwater Emergent Macrophytes (Withdrawn 2021), ASTM International, West Conshohocken, PA, 2012, www.astm.org