荷兰MicroLAN
荷兰microLAN公司研制生产的TOXcontrol在线水质毒性测定仪是目前世界上唯一可自动检测分析水中综合毒性的先进工具。
microLAN: from chemical analysers to Bioassays:

It still is impossible to analyse all chemical substances, which are brought into nature by man. Scientists suggest there are around 100.000 dangerous chemical substances and even with the most advanced instruments it is still not possible to detect them all. With the help of bioassays a much broader view of the possible dangerous effects can be analysed there where it is most important: nature itself!!
With analytical / chemical testing only 5% can be detected, specially in waste and riverwater.

Bioassays are more and more commonly used in combination with the traditional chemical analysers for the analyses of soil, water and sediment. The advantage of bioassays is that they signalise the direct toxicity effect. Next to that they also give an indication of the cumulative and combined effect of multiple pollution substances. This can give useful additional information when it is not known which different substances are present in the sample. Bioassays are simple, rapid, sensitive and inexpensive.

In the Netherlands it is expected that from 2006 bioassays will be used as a routine analyses for water identification. The RIZA (Institute for Inland Water Management and Waste Water Treatment) expects from that date there will be a legal base to use a set of bioassays to control the quality of wastewater and effluents, the so called TEI: Total Effluent Identification. In the future discharge permits can be granted from the results of toxicological analyses.

In the drinkingwater industry biological early warning systems (BEWS) have been successfully used for many years. They are more and more used in the protection during the production process at the intake, treatment plant or within the distribution system.

See the products part of this site for an example of an on-line Biomonitoring system.