Title: control
Long Title: IUPAC Gold Book - control
DOI: 10.1351/goldbook.14551
Status: current

Definition
Treatment in a toxicity test that duplicates all the conditions of the exposure treatments but contains no test material, in order to determine the absence of toxicity under basic test conditions (e.g., health of test organisms, quality of dilution water).

Source
- PAC, 2009, 81, 829. 'Glossary of terms used in ecotoxicology (IUPAC Recommendations 2009)' on page 861 (https://doi.org/10.1351/PAC-REC-08-07-09)

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Citation: Citation: 'control' in IUPAC Compendium of Chemical Terminology, 5th ed. International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry; 2025. Online version 5.0.0, 2025. 10.1351/goldbook.14551
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