Contamination by cyanobacterias (blue green algae) can result in toxification of fresh water recourses by microcystin, a hepatotoxin that is acutely toxic (causing liver failure) and that, during chronic low level exposure, promotes liver cancer. For routine control of surface water recourses, a fast, reliable, cost-effective and sensitive screening test-kit is available from Biosense.

The BIOSENSE FOODSAFE™ product line also offers kits to detect herbicides, pesticides, estrogenic hormones, xenoestrogens, and surfactants such as Linear Alkylbenzene Sulfonate (LAS) and Alkylphenol Ethoxylate (APE) in water, together with vitellogenin kits for the detection of compounds with estrogenic or anti-estrogenic properties.