The fish embryo toxicity test (FET) is a accepted alternative method to experiments with adult fish and is obligatorily used in the field of  ecotoxicology (OECD TG 236) since 2013.

With the FET, substances are tested for acute toxicity. Nevertheless, below the detection limit of acute toxicity tests, chemicals can disturb the development and reproductive capacity of organisms. This is why Dr. Sabine Richter from the Institute of Zoology of the Technical University Dresden has established reporter gene lines of the Medaka (Oryzias latipes) with fluorescence-labelled germ cells as models for the detection of substance effects on the gonads of the fish embryos.

When: Thursday, June 18, 2015, 2:30 p.m.

Where: Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR)
Berlin-Marienfelde
House 3, Big Boardroom D 146
Diedersdorfer Weg 1, 12277 Berlin
http://www.bfr.bund.de/cd/5409 (Getting there)

Contact: Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR)
FG 92 ZEBET - alternative methods to animal experiments
Dr. Andrea Seiler
Postfach 12 69 42, 10609 Berlin
Tel .: (030) 18412-2278
Email: ZEBET [at] bfr.bund.de


Source:
http://www.bfr.bund.de/de/