Data provider
Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Department of Applied Biotechnology and Food Science, Environmental Microbiology and Biotechnology Group
Contact details
Compulsory sheet
Information on the method
Measured endpoint
Implementation conditions
Implementation costs
Innovation, main features
A multispecies microbial assay with genetically diverse test organisms inculuding prokaryotes and a eukaryote.
User-friendly simple protocol conducted in 96 well microtitre plate and data analysis performed with a dedicated software. Test generates unique toxicity fingerprint.
Suitable for testing chemicals and both aquatic and terrestrial environmental samples. Applications to date include testing of wastwaters, receiving waters, soils, effluents, sediments, and leachates.
Standard Operational Protocol manual supplied with test.
SWOT (evalaution based on scores)
SWOT (evaluation in words)
Multi-species chronic evaluation. Low cost compared to conventional ecotoxicity tests.
Assay has undergone rigorous intra-laboratory and International inter-laboratory validation.
MARA has been employed in a number of projects and is currently in use worldwide.
Not a direct contact test. Further development is in progress.
Other information, references
Available from NCIMB, includes publications in prestigious journals and book.