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It has not been determined whether 3,5-lutidine is readily biodegradable, although the substance has been shown to exhibit rapid and complete levels of aerobic degradation by pre-adapted microbial populations isolated from sediments contaminated with alkylpyridines (Ronen, et al., 1998). Removal of 3,5-lutidine by pre-adapted microbial populations from contaminated soils incubated in the laboratory was shown to occur rapidly under aerobic conditions, and less rapidly under sulphate-reducing and denitrifying conditions (Bollag and Kaiser, 1989). Complete removal of 3,5-lutidine from a wastewater stream by a municipal wastewater treatment plant was shown by a comparison of influent and effluent concentrations (Melcer, et al., 1995). Extensive removal of 3,5 -lutidine from both a single stage mixed reactor and a two-stage cyclic fixed-film reactor containing wastewater treatment inoculum and pre-adapted inoculum conatining groundwater from a contaminated site (Hsu et al., 1993).