註釋 Reports on a study that used semipermeable membrane devices (SPMDs) to identify industrial effluents along the Athabasca River system that induce mixed function oxygenase (MFO) activity in fish cell lines. These SPMDs provided samples of known exposure time in effluents and river waters by simultaneously sampling the effluent stream and the river upstream and downstream of the mixing zone at each site. The investigators deployed the SPMDs for two weeks at one major town and five industrial wastewater sites (four pulp mills and one oil sands facility) on the Athabasca, and at one pulp mill on the Lesser Slave River. They tested SPMD extracts for MFO activity using cell culture techniques in top minnow (Poeciliopsis lucida) hepatoma cells. Results presented include comparisons of MFO induction potency between different sampling sites and between type of effluent source. 