{"term":{"id":"15105","title":"toxicity identification and evaluation","longtitle":"IUPAC Gold Book - toxicity identification and evaluation","doi":"10.1351\/goldbook.15105","code":"15105","status":"current","initialism":"<em>initialism<\/em>: TIE","definitions":[{"id":1,"text":"Systematic pretreatment (e.g., \\(\\rm{pH}\\) change, filtration, or aeration) of a sample to obtain defined fractions that are subsequently tested for their toxicity. This fractionation is designed to separate out defined substances and thus to identify the agent(s) primarily responsible for lethal or sublethal toxicity of a complex mixture.","sources":["PAC, 2009, 81, 829. 'Glossary of terms used in ecotoxicology (IUPAC Recommendations 2009)' on page 958 (https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1351\/PAC-REC-08-07-09)"]}],"altoutputs":{"html":"https:\/\/goldbook.iupac.org\/terms\/view\/15105\/html","xml":"https:\/\/goldbook.iupac.org\/terms\/view\/15105\/xml","plain":"https:\/\/goldbook.iupac.org\/terms\/view\/15105\/plain"},"citation":"Citation: 'toxicity identification and evaluation' 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.15105","license":"The IUPAC Gold Book is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike CC BY-SA 4.0 International (https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/4.0\/) for individual terms.","collection":"If you are interested in licensing the Gold Book for commercial use, please contact the IUPAC Executive Director at executivedirector@iupac.org .","disclaimer":"The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) is continuously reviewing and, where needed, updating terms in the Compendium of Chemical Terminology (the IUPAC Gold Book). Users of these terms are encouraged to include the version of a term with its use and to check regularly for updates to term definitions that you are using.","accessed":"2026-07-25T18:35:11+00:00"}}