“…Small invertebrates, such as crustaceans, protozoans, algae, yeasts, plant seedlings, bacteria, shellfish, fish and amphibians, are used as the test organisms (Namiesnik and Szefer 2010). Numerous researchers have promoted the usage of biotests in Europe (Blaise and Férard 2006, Wadhia and Dando 2009, Palma et al 2010, Wolska et al 2010. The advantages of biotests are their broad range sensitivity, technical simplicity, low costs and short time necessary for assay completion (Namiesnik and Szefer 2010).…”