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| Angewandte Chemie A journal of the GDCh | Uncovering the photochemical conversion of atmospheric chlorinated organics on mineral dust: in-field evidence of a new source of dioxin | |
| BUND | Drinking water tests by BUND activists show PFAS in 42 of 46 samples | |
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| "Forever Lobbying Project" reveals tactics of the PFAS lobby | |
| Deutsche Geselltschft für Endokironolgie | Open letter: European and global endocrine community call for legislative action on endocrine disrupting chemicals | |
| dpa-AFX Wirtschaftsnachrichten GmbH | France takes action against eternity chemicals | |
| DUH Deutsche Umwelthilfe ECHA | Every year 70.000 deaths from particulate matter and more than 28.000 from nitrogen dioxide ECHA adds five hazardous chemicals to the Candidate List and updates one entry | |
| eawag Water Research Institute of the ETH Domain | EAWAG News: The devastating impact of humans on biodiversity | |
| Comprehensive catalogue of plastic chemicals of concern | ||
| ECOTOX | Bioindicators and soil reference values for pesticides | |
| EEA | The Zero Pollution Monitoring and Outlook 2025 Report and The Zero Pollution Monitoring Dashboard | |
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| PFAS pollution in european water | |
| Health and environment impacts of air pollution exposure remain high across Europe | ||
| EEB European Envirenmental Bureau | 'Forever Chemicals' poisoning Europe's waters and fish: The tip of the PFAS iceberg | |
| Environmental Health News | France passes controversial law on acetamiprid ban | |
| European Commission | Report on implementation of EU environmental legislation in the 27 EU Member States | |
| European Metrology Network for Pollution Monitoring | European Metrology Network for Pollution Monitoring | |
| GEOMAR Helmholtz-Centre for Ocean Research Kiel | European initiative for the recovery of old munitions from the oceans | |
| Greenpeace | PFAS-Measurements of marine foam show high contamination | |
| Dangerous chemicals still in Shein clothing: Greenpeace Research 2025 | ||
| IGB Leibniz-Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries | How tyre abrasion pollutes water bodies and animals | |
| InfoSperber | PFAS: Denmark bans 23 pesticides | |
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| KWB Kompetenzzentrum Wasser Berlin | PFAS in Europe and Berlin: The project "PROMISCES" provides answers | |
| Nature Geoscience article | Anthropogenic organic aerosol in Europe produced mainly through second-generation oxidation | |
| NTV | Children acutely endangered by Plastic at risk | |
| Max Planck Institute for Chemistry | German satellite detects CO2 and NO2 simultaneously from power plant flue gases | |
| MINAGRIS | EU Horizon project MINAGRIS: Micro- and Nano-Plastics in AGRIcultural Soils | |
| Nature | Environmental impacts of polymeric flame retardant breakdown | |
| OECD Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development) | OECD Synthesis Report on Understanding Perfluoropolyethers (PFPEs) and Their Life Cycle | |
| Oekotox Centre | Quality criteria at the Oekotox Centre - new Values and substances, new complete list | |
| PIK Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research | Seven planetary boundaries Earth are exceeded | |
| Public Eye | Massive increase in Pesticide exports from the EU | |
RPTU Rhineland-Palatinate University of Technology Kaiserslautern-Landau | No data, no problem? How insufficient How insufficient recording of chemical concentrations in the environment influences the assessment of risks | |
| UFZ Helmholtz-Centre for Environmental Research | Without intact nature we will not be able to maintain our prosperity | |
| Neurotoxic? New screening method for chemicals provides quick answer | ||
| UBA Federal Environment Agency | Trifluoroacetic acid (TFA): Assessment for classification in new hazard classes presented | |
| Risk management for plant protection products | ||
| ChemSelect: The assessment concept | ||
| Umweltinstitut München e.V | PFAS and pesticides - lazy compromises in EU water protection | |
| University of Heidelberg | New Lancet Countdown to Plastics and Health | |
| University of Duisburg-Essen | How microplastics are changing river ecology changes | |
| University of Giessen | Many unknown pollutants in cosmetics, Care products and perfumes detected |
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| BfG | New BfG-study sheds new light on the function of river sediments as a sink for microplastics | |
| BfR | The online platformplatform "PARCopedia" informs about risks and enables professional exchange | |
| Hormonelly active chemicals: A question of dose | ||
| BUND Friends of Earth Germany | Updated version of the BUND-Position "Challenges for a sustainable materials policy - the need for transformation in a global context" | |
| Petition by BUND to Federal Health Minister Karl Lauterbach on PFAS restriction launched | ||
| World Chemicals Conference - what did it achieve? A BUND commentary | ||
| BUMV Federal Environment Ministry | Federal Cabinet adopts transformation report "Pollutant-free environment" | |
| Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture | EU: Once again no majority in favour of glyphosate approval in the appeal committee | |
| DPG Deutsches Gesundheitsportal | Insecticides increase risk of intestinal inflammation | |
| DZNE German Centre for Neurodegenerative Diseases | PFAS in the blood are ubiquitous and associated with increased risk of cardiovascular disease | |
| EAWAG Water Research Institute of ETH Zurich | Predicting the toxicity of chemicals with AI |
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| ECHA | ECHA identifies research needs for regulating hazardous chemicals | |
| ECHA consultation on PFAS restriction closed | ||
EEB European Environmental Bureau | European Environmental Bureau: Briefing paper: tackling PFAS in drinking water | |
| EMPA Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Testing and Research | Environmental agreement shows effect: Decrease in ozone-depleting greenhouse gases in the atmosphere | |
| EuChemS European Chemical Society | EuChemS-DCE survey on representation of Environmental Chemistry in programmes of higher education | |
| European Environment Agency | Air pollution still too high across Europe - still the biggest environmental health risk | |
| European Parliament | EU Parliament calls for better treatment and reuse of municipal wastewater | |
| FZ Jülich Research Centre Jülic h | The sky over Los Angeles: Rising temperatures affect air quality | |
| Global Tipping Points led by Professor Tim Lenton from the University of Exeter's Global Systems Institute | Global Tipping Points Report 2023 | |
| iDIV German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research Halle-Jena-Leipzig | Farming without fertilisers and pesticides brings more benefits for all | |
| IDW Indormationsdienst Wissenschaft | Harmful effect of neonicotinoids on frog embryos proven | |
| INFOSperber Online newspaper of the non-profit "Schweizerische Stiftung zur Förderung unabhängiger Information" | USA adopts strict PFAS limits for drinking water
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| Drinking water contamination by chlorothalonil | ||
| Pesticide residues in Swiss drinking water | ||
| INKOTA -Netzwerk e.V. | Over 150.000 people call for export ban on banned pesticides | |
| Journal of Hazardous Materials | Luxembourg study on the link between cardiovascular diseases and exposure to pollutants | |
| LANUV Landesamt für Natur, Environment and Consumer Protection North Rhine-Westphalia | Micropollutants in water bodies: Many wastewater treatment plants need to be upgraded to remove micropollutants in wastewater | |
| MPI for Biogeochemistry Jena | Emissions of the greenhouse gas nitrous oxide have increased by 40 per cent since 1980 | |
| Swiss Ecotox Centre | Swiss monitoring of biotopes of national importance for plant protection products | |
| Swiss Ecotox Centre detects UV filters in Lake Geschirner | ||
| PAN Germany Pestizid Aktions Netzwerk e.V. | Still insufficient protection against endocrine disruptors | |
| Current PAN report: TFA in surface and groundwater | ||
| PIK Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research | "An invaluable contribution to the wellbeing of our planet": Johan Rockström receives Tyler Prize for Environmental Merit | |
| Senckenberg Gesellschaft für Naturforschung | Tyre abrasion threatens freshwaters | |
| UBA | UBA: Water resources must be better protected | |
| Current publications from the Federal Environment Agency | ||
| UFZ Environmental Research Centre | Mapping the chemical footprint in European rivers | |
| Citizen Science project FLOW shows: Small streams in Germany are in poor ecological condition | ||
| University of Bayreuth | Anja Ramsperger receives the Bavarian Culture Prize | |
| VSA Verband Swiss wastewater and water protection experts | Effect of the Swiss action plan for plant protection products on watercourses | |
| WWF Environmental Foundation WWF Germany | Emissions of the 12 largest chemical parks in Germany | |
| ZeroPollution4Water | EU Research Cluster: ZeroPollution4Water |
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| AWI Alfred-Wegener-Institute | Plastic waste in the Arctic comes from all over the world - including Germany | |
| Arctic ice algae heavily contaminated with microplastics | ||
| BAuA | NanoHarmony-Project publishes white paper on the development of test guidelines | |
| Details on the proposed PFAS ban in the EU published | ||
| BfG | New BfG-Study sheds new light on the function of river sediments as a sink for microplastics | |
| BMEL Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture | EU: Once again no majority in favour of glyphosate approval in the appeal committee | |
| BR24 Bayerischer Rundfunk | High residues: Foodwatch in favour of ban on insecticide acetamiprid | |
| BSN | Glyphosate herbicide can directly harm insects | |
| BSH Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency | Research project on ship exhaust gases recommends better monitoring of nitrogen oxidelimits and restrictions for other air pollutants | |
| BUND Bund für Umwelt und Naturschutz Deutschland e.V. | Updated version of the BUND position "Challenges for a sustainable substance policy - the need for transformation in a global context" | |
| World Chemicals Conference - what did it achieve? A BUND commentary | ||
| BVL Federal Institute for Consumer Protection and Food Safety | National reporting "Pesticide residues in food" | |
| Chemisches und Veterinäruntersuchungsamt | Maximum levels for per- and polyfluorinated alkyl substances (PFAS) in food have been in force since 1 January 2023 | |
| ECHA European Chemicals Agency | Two new substances added to the SVHCCandidate List | |
| ECHA identifies research needs for regulating hazardous chemicals | ||
| ECHA consultation on PFAS restriction concluded | ||
| ECOTOX Swiss Ecocentre | New report on the determination of ecotoxicological reference values for soils | |
| Eurpean Environment Agency | Air pollution still too high across Europe - still the biggest environmental health risk | |
| European Council Council of the European Union | EU-Council reaches agree-ment on amendments to industrial emissions directive (IED) | |
| EUWIED Water and wastewater | Industry associations: General ban on PFAS chemicals jeopardises climate targets | |
| EPA United States Environmental Protection Agency | Major environmental disaster in the USA: train crash on 3.02.2023 near East Palestine | |
| Forever Pollution Project | The Forever Pollution Project: Journalists tracking PFAS across Europe | |
| FPF Food Packaging Forum | Over 3000 chemicals detected in food packaging | |
| Goethe Universität Frankfurt am Main | Continuous air monitoring for halogenated gases | |
| Nature Journals | Nature Sustainability Article: Continuing large-scale global trade and illegal trade of highly hazardous chemicals | |
| Nature Water article: Predicting microplastic masses in river networks with high spatial resolution at country level | ||
| Okotoxzentrum Schweiz | Swiss monitoring of biotopes of national importance for plant protection products | |
| PARCopedia | The online platform "PARCopedia" provides information on risks and enables professional exchange | |
| UBA | UBA: Water resources must be better protected | |
| New publications from the Federal Environment Agency | ||
| New publications from the German Environment Agency | ||
| Bisphenol F and bisphenol AF: ECHA confirms endocrine disruption | ||
| 27/2023: Where spraying takes place, streams are damaged | ||
| New Drinking Water Ordinance comes into force | ||
| UFZ Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research | PFAS reduce activity of immune cells | |
| Federal Environment Agency Austria | PFAS-Report 2022 | |
| New publications from the Federal Environment Agency | ||
| UNEP Environment Programme | UNEP Technical Report: Chemicals in Plastic | |
| University of Vienna | The new FWF Cluster of Excellence "Microbiomes Drive Planetary Health" at the University of Vienna |
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| AGES Austrian Agency for Health and Food Safety GmbH | EU Horizon Project MINAGRIS | |
| AWI Alfred Wegener Institut | The impact of plastic pollution in the oceans on marine species, biodiversity and ecosystems | |
| BaFu Swiss Federal Office for the Environment | Plastics in the environment - summarising information from the Swiss Federal Office for the Environment (BaFu) | |
| Bayerisches Landesamt für Umwelt | Preliminary guidelines for the assessment of PFAS contamination in water and soil (July 2022) | |
| BfR | How do cells react to micro- and nanoplastics? | |
| BUND | New study: Environmental pollution from chemicals and plastics has exceeded the planet's carrying capacity - Natural foundations of human life threatened | |
| Chemical Science International Journal | Chemistry Must Respond to the Crisis of Transgression of Planetary Boundaries | |
| DVGW | DVGW research project: Development of a method for low-discrimination enrichment for effect-directed analysis of water samples (Acronym: DA-EDA) | |
| ECHA | Consultation: ECHA proposes restriction on PFASs in firefighting foams | |
| EFSA European Food Safety Authority | EFSA publishes report on pesticide residues on food | |
| Bees and pesticides: draft guidance update for public consultation | ||
| EGU | The "Cryosphere" article: First evidence of microplastics in Antarctic snow | |
| Environmental Science & Technology | Outside the Safe Operating Space of a New Planetary Boundary for Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS) | |
| EUA European Environment Agency | Pollutant exposure causes 10% of all cancer cases in Europe | |
| EuChemS European Chemical Society | ENVI Committee votes on Persistent Organic Pollutants | |
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| The Burlington Consensus | |
| European Commission | European Commission to introduce tighter control of F-gases and ODS | |
| ECHA Europen Chemical Agency | Four new SVHC-substances on the candidate list | |
| European Council Council of the European Union | Council of the EU formally adopts further restrictions on "eternal chemicals" in waste | |
| IKK Institute of Plastics and Circular Economy Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Leibniz University Hannover | EU-funded research project to analyse aquatic degradation mechanisms of polymer materials at the University of Hannover | |
| Infosperber Online-Newspaper of the "Swiss Foundation for the Promotion of Independent Information" | California sues PFAS manufacturers 3M and DuPont | |
| IUTA Institute for Energy and Environmental Technology.V | IUTA research project: Development of a process for the receptor-specific enrichment of hormones and endocrine disruptors | |
| Oekozentrum Centre for Applied Ecotoxicology of Switzerland | New EU guidelines for sediment management | |
| PAN Germany Pesticide Action Network | EU citizens' initiative calls for mandatory pesticide reduction in Germany and Europe | |
| Senckenberg-Museum Frankfurt | End of the deep sea: Microplastics pollute the seabed even more than assumed | |
| UBA | Ecosystems more sensitive to nitrogen pollution than previously assumed | |
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| Refinement of the P assessment of ionisable substances Assessment criteria for other pollutants and pollutant groups in soils not yet included in the BBodSchV Emerging and legacy organic contaminants in the polar regions Supplementary report to the Stockholm Convention 2020 Are substances more persistent than the test systems would have us believe The use of biocides in animal housings | |
| Pesticide authorisations undermine environmental protection
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| UNEP | Conference to negotiate agreement against plastic waste | |
| A step forward at UN Environment Assembly towards reducing global pollution | ||
| International Day of Clean Air for blue skies | ||
| UN Ocean Conference 2022: 198 countries adopt the Lisbon Declaration | ||
| United Nations General Assembly declared Environmental Rights and Governance | ||
| Water Research | Mapping unknown chemical contaminants in Swiss waters | |
| WWF World Wide Fund For Nature | Brazil's President Bolsonaro legalises environmentally destructive and health-threatening gold mining in the Amazon |
UBA-Texte 29/2021: Effects of ground-level ozone on vegetation modified by nitrogen and components of climate change: a literature study
Position paper: Plastics and other persistent "new" substances in soil - Further challenges in soil protection
Position paper: 20 years of the Water Framework Directive: Recommendations of the German Environment Agency
UBA-Texts 08/2021: Advancing REACH - REACH and substitution
UBA-Texts 02/2021: Inventory determination of F-gases 2017/2018
UBA-Texts 233/2020: Environmental quality standards for inland waters
UBA-Texts 230/2020: PBT - Quo vadis? Examination and further development of the PBT assessment approach for identification of environmental SVHC
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| Agroscope Swiss research for agriculture, nutrition and the environment | Agroscope investigation: Pesticides in Swiss agricultural soils | |||
| AWI Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research | Alfred Wegener Institute: Climate change leads to large ozone losses over the Arctic | |||
| BfR | PFAS in food: BfR confirms critical exposure to industrial chemicals | |||
| New BfR concept to identify possible health relevant combinations of chemicals | ||||
| BEUC European Consumer Organisation | Toxic chemicals in nonplastic disposable tableware, consumer test reveals | |||
| BMBF Federal Ministry of Education and Research | Federal Government's Five-Year Programme for Water Research: Water: N -Research and Innovation for Sustainability | |||
| Federal Government/ Bundestag | 1. Reading in the German Bundestag: Consultation on demand to stop pesticide exports | |||
| Amendment to the Nature Conservation Act adopted | ||||
| EAWAG | Short-term pollutant concentration peaks in water bodies are greatly underestimated | |||
| EuChemS | ECHA updated the Candidate List with 8 new chemicals | |||
| New rule on transparency of the EU risk assessment in the food chain | ||||
| European Commission | EU-Commission welcomes ECJ judgement on air pollution in Germany | |||
| European Commission presents plan for zero-pollutant target by 2050 | ||||
| EU Research Consortium Polyrisk EU Research Consortium "PlasticsFaTe" EU-Project "Macro- and Microplastic in Agricultural Soil Systems - SOPLAS" | ||||
| European Council | European Council approves conclusions on the EU Chemicals Strategy for Sustainability | |||
| Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft | Plastics in the environment: Emissions into agricultural soils | |||
| Göthe-Universität Frankfurt | Floods: Poison from the riverbed | |||
| Greenpeace | Antibiotic-resistant bacteria in slaughterhouse wastewater | |||
| Hereon Helmholtz Centre | Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht becomes Helmholtz-Centre Hereon | |||
| IPCP | Sign-on Campaign: Developing a global science-policy body on chemicals and waste | |||
| Interreg | Cross-border research project CoMinGreat | |||
| LFU Bayern Bayerisches Landesamt für Umwelt | Project "PureAlps" completed | |||
| Milieudefensie | Court decision in the case of oil pollution of the Niger Delta by Shell | |||
| myScience | Call for a global science council on chemicals and waste management | Call for a global science council on chemicals and Waste Management | ||
| NIVA | JPI Oceans: Policy paper published: Knowledge hub on the integrated assessment of chemical contaminants and their effects on the marine environment | |||
| Science Journal of the American Association for the Advancement of Science | New insights into anthropogenic ecosystem transformation in the Holocene era | |||
| UBA | UBA-Texte 113/2021: Combined chemical and ecotoxicological monitoring of pollutants in waters | |||
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| UBA-Texte 75/2021: Polychlorinated dibenzodioxins and furans (PCDD/F) and polychlorinated biphenyls (PCB) in outdoor air and deposition in the rural background of Germany UBA-Texts 73/2021: Persistent degradation products of halogenated refrigerants and blowing agents in the environment: type, environmental concentrations, and fate with particular regard to new halogenated substitutes with low global warming potential UBA-Texte 69/2021: Phosphonates in detergents and cleaning agents and their fate in the environment - Development of analytical methods and their practical application in samples of surface water, wastewater and sediment UBA-Texte 44/2021: Development of an ecotoxicological assessment approach for soils based on the bioavailable fraction of pollutants, taking into account the different filter and buffer properties of soils UBA-Texte 36/2021: Persistent degradation products of halogenated refrigerants and blowing agents in the environment: Nature, environmental concentrations and fate with special consideration of new halogenated substitutes with low global warming potential Data on the environment - Environmental Monitor 2020 (March 2021) UBA Texts 14/2021: Influence of a major airport on temporal and spatial distributions of outdoor air concentrations of ultrafine particulate matter < 100 nm Scan4Chem app on chemicals in products available in 15 countries | |||
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| UFZ | EU project PrecisionTox starts | |||
| UNEP | UNEP-Report reveals health risks from water pollution |
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| Auquatic Pollutants | European Call "Aquatic Pollutants | ||
| BFG | Environmental radioactivity: BfG publishes unique dataset | ||
| BfR Federal Institute for Risk Assessment | Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS): European Food Safety Authority draft open for public comment | ||
| BMU Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety | Nitrate levels in groundwater decrease slightly - phosphorus pollution of rivers and lakes remains unchanged | ||
| BUND Bund für Umwelt und Naturschutz Deutschland e.V. (BUND) | Position paper of the BUND Federal Working Group on Environmental Chemicals and Toxicology | ||
| DBU Funding initiative of the Deutsche Bundesstiftung Umwelt | DBU-Funding initiative "Avoidance and reduction of pesticides in the environment" | ||
| EAWAG Water Research Institute of the ETH Domain | The next pandemic is on the horizon - It's time, to take the ecological crisis seriously | ||
| ECHA European Chemical Agency | ECHA's Committee for Risk Assessment (RAC) backs restricting intentional uses of microplastics | ||
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| EFSA European Food Safety Authority | Peer review of the pesticide risk assessment for the active substance sulfoxaflor | ||
| European Court of Auditors | EU Special Report 05/2020: Sustainable use of plant protection products: limited progress in measuring and reducing risks | ||
| GermanWatch | Corona and climate crisis in the EU should be considered together: Lessons from the Corona Crisis | ||
| JPI Oceans JPI Healthy and Productive Seas and Oceans | JPI-Oceans International Research Project: MICROPLASTIX (2020 - 2023) | ||
| LFU Bayern Bayerisches Landesamt für Umwelt | Projektverbund BayÖkotox - Ökotoxikologische Bewertung von Stoffen in der Umwelt | ||
| Detection of poorly degradable chemicals in remote areas | |||
| MPI Mainz Max Planck Institute for Chemistry | Corona lockdowns: Cleaner air saves lives | ||
| Niedersächsiches Ministerium für Ernährung, Agriculture and Consumer Protection | Recommendation for fish from rivers in Lower Saxony with regard to perfluorinated alkysubstances (PFAS) | ||
| RSPB The Royal Society Publishing | Pesticides impair baby bee brain development | ||
| Science Journal of the American Association for the Advancement of Science | Neonicotinoids disrupt aquatic food webs and decrease fishery yields (Article) | ||
| Science Direct | Journal MethodsX: New Special Issue:Microplastics Analysis | ||
| Springer Nature Publishing Group | DEAL: Open Access agreement for Germany with Springer Nature | ||
| UBA Umweltbundesamt | UBA-Texte 86/2020: Robustness study on the resorption availability of contaminants in soils | ||
| UBA-Texte 110/2020: Application of passive samplers in monitoring programmes according to WFD and MSFD | |||
| UBA-Texte 114/2020: Potential SVHCs in environment and products | |||
| UBA-Texts 137/2020: Remediation management for localised and areal PFAS contamination | |||
| UBA-Texte 145/2020: Research into the causes of detected water pollution with rodenticides (PBT substances) | |||
| Pollutants in the PRTR - Situation in Germany - Reporting years 2007 - 2018 | |||
| UBA press release: Children and adolescents have too much PFAS in their blood | |||
| Sustainable ways out of the economic crisis | |||
| REACH Compliance: Data availability in REACH registrations - Part 3: Evaluation of 100 to 1000 tpa substances | |||
| Entry pathways of lead into the human organism | |||
| Human biomonitoring of perfluorinated chemicals - Development of a proposal for the derivation of an HBMII value for PFOA and PFOS | |||
| Evaluation of the endocrine potential of bisphenol alternatives in environmentally relevant uses | |||
| REACH: Improvement of guidance and methods for the identification and assessment of PMT/vPvM substances | |||
| Protecting the sources of our drinking water: The criteria for identifying persistent, mobile and toxic (PMT) substances and very persistent and very mobile (vPvM) substances under EU Regulation REACH (EC) No 1907/2006 | |||
| Potential SVHC in environment and articles - information collection with the aim to prepare restriction proposals for PFAS | |||
| Development of a method to determine the bioaccumulation of manufactured nanomaterials in filtering organisms (Bivalvia) | |||
| UBA-Broschüre: Plastics in the Environment | |||
| Unicef | Report by UNICEF and Pure Earth: 800 million children affected by lead poisoning | ||
| Unicef | Report by UNICEF and Pure Earth: 800 million. Children affected by lead poisoning | ||
| VDI | VDI-TECHNISCHE REGEL 2020-03: Critical Dose Parameters for Ozone | ||
| WG Wasserchemische Gesellschaft | Guide: Application of non-target screening by LC-ESI-HRMS in water analysis | ||
| WHO World Health Organisation | WHO report: Microplastics in drinking-water | ||
| ZFMK Zoological Research Museum Alexander Koenig | Establishment of a Centre for Biodiversity Monitoring (ZBM) | ||
| ZMT Leibnitz Centre for Tropical Marine Research | MicroplastiX - Subproject Coastal Ecosystems |
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| Angewandte Chemie Zeitschrift | Hundreds of halogenated compounds detected for the first time in the blood serum of polar bears from the mid-1980s | |
| BfR | Reducing aluminium intake can minimise potential health risks | |
| BfR: New health-based guidance values for the industrial chemicals PFOS and PFOA | ||
| REACH Compliance Workshop at the BfR | ||
| BMU Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety | Results of phase 2 of the stakeholder dialogue "Federal Trace Substance Strategy" on the implementation of measures for the reduction of trace substance inputs into water | |
| CIEL Centre for International Environmental Law | Plastic & Health: The Hidden Costs of a Plastic Planet | |
| EAWAG Forschungsanstalt des ETH-Domain | Review article in "Nature Sustainability" on the Montreal Protocol | |
| Pesticide degradation products pollute Swiss groundwater | ||
| Too many pesticides in small streams in Switzerland | ||
| Ecology & Evolution Nature Research Ecology & Evolution Community | Drugs in bugs: Aquatic insects accumulate pharmaceuticals and introduce them into food chains. | |
| Environmetal Science and Technology | Study on the degradation behaviour of different types of plastic | |
| European Parliament | Pesticides: EU Parliament approves proposals for a better EU authorisation procedure | |
| FONA Research for Sustainable Development, BMBF | Research Initiative for Biodiversity Conservation - A FONA Flagship Initiative | |
| HGZ Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht, Institute of Coastal Research | coastMap - the marine geoportal of the Institute of Coastal Research | |
| DPG German Society for Pneumology and Respiratory Medicine.V. | Position paper published by the DGP: 'Breathing: Air Pollutants and Health' | |
| IPBES Science and Policy for People and Nature | IPBES Global Assessment Report on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services | |
| KIT Karlsruhe Institute of Technology | Fine particulate matter pollutes the air over Africa | |
| LAWA Bund/Länder-Arbeitsgemeinschaft Wasser | LAWA report on groundwater quality - plant protection products - reporting period 2013 to 2016 | |
| Leopoldina National Academy of Sciences | Der stumme Frühling - Zur Notwendigkeit eines umweltverträglichen Pflanzenschutzes | |
LFU | LfU Report: Per- and polyfluorinated chemicals in Bavaria - Investigations 2006 - 2018 | |
| MDR ARD-Magazin "Fakt" | Pesticide use permitted in hundreds of nature reserves |
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| MLU Halle Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg | Field trial with neonicotinoids: Honey bees are significantly more robust than bumblebees | |
| MPI Max Planck Institute for Chemistry | Study by the MPI for Chemistry Mainz: Factory farming main cause of particulate matter | |
| OECD Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development | OECD Report: Pharmaceutical Residues in Freshwater | |
| Swiss Ecotox Centre | Joint investigation by EAWAG and the Swiss Ecotox Centre: Detection of pyrethroid and organophosphate insecticides in Swiss streams in the pg L-1 range | |
| SCHEER Scientific Committee on Health, Environmental and Emerging Risks | Statement on emerging health and environmental issues (2018), adopted on 20th December 2018. | |
| UBA Federal Environment Agency | Occurrence of fragrances from detergents and cleaning agents in wastewater and surface waters - a literature study | |
| The database "Pharmaceuticals in the Environment" - Update and new analysis | ||
| Concept for the implementation of the new environmental quality standards for priority substances in fish (Directive 2013/39/EU) | ||
| Development of an analytical method for the quantification of surfactants and its application to wastewater treatment plant effluents | ||
| Analysis of studies and research projects regarding the detection of nanomaterials in different environmental compartments and deduction of need for action regarding method development | ||
| Comparable exposure to chemicals in the body across Europe for the first time | ||
| UBA brochure: Plastics in the Environment | ||
| UBA background document: Air Quality 2018 - Preliminary Evaluation | ||
| UBA Texts 106/2018 and 107/2018: Impacts of Heavy Metal Emission on Air Quality and Ecosystems across Germany - Sources, Transport, Deposition and potential Hazards | ||
| UFZ | Risk assessment of pesticides: Scientists call for revision of the authorisation procedure | |
| CITEPro "Chemicals in the Environment Profiler", managed by the Department Cell Toxicology, UFZ Halle-Leipzig | ||
| UN Environment | UNEP: Global Chemicals Outlook II | |
| WHO | WHO-Study on microplastics in drinking water |
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| Bayerisches Landesamt für Umwelt | Development der PSM - Belastung in Bavarian waters - assessment after 30 years of PPP monitoring | |
| BLGL Bavarian State Office for Health and Food Safety | BLGL final report: Human biomonitoring of perfluorinated substances in parts of the district of Altötting | |
| BMU Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety | Stricter EU rules for plasticisers in plastics | |
| CWPharma Clear Water from Pharmaceiticals | EU-Interreg 2 (Baltic Sea Region) research project "CWPharma - Removal of Pharmaceuticals from Water" | |
| DBU | German Environmental Award for Marine Biologist Boetius and Leipzig Wastewaterexperts | |
| EAWAG Water Research Institute of the ETH-Domain | Reading water quality from trout genes | |
| ECHA European Chemicals Agency | REACH candidate list: Cyclosiloxanes identified as SVHC | |
| EU recognises bisphenol A as a substance of very high concern | ||
| EFSA | Scientific Opinion on the state of the art of Toxicokinetic/Toxicodynamic (TKTD) effect models for regulatory risk assessment of pesticides for aquatic organisms. | Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox 3/18 |
| Update on how EFSA evaluates genotoxicity | ||
| EMPA | Searching for traces in the atmosphere: On the trail of an ozone killer | Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox 4/18 |
| EuGH | Too much nitrate in groundwater: ECJ condemns Germany | |
| CJEU: Confirmation of the restriction of 3 neonicotinoids | ||
| EU Parliament | EU Parliament sets up special committee on pesticides - focus on glyphosate | |
| European Commission | EU Plastics Strategy- single-use plastics targeted | |
| IBG | Underestimated danger: Microplastics on dry land | Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox 1/18 |
| KOMS | Inventory of the trace substance situation of wastewater treatment plants in Baden-Württemberg | Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox 1/18 |
| Ministry of Environment, Climate and | New decree continues assessment basis for possible PFC contamination of groundwater and leachate | |
| SETAC Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry | Critical Review: Toward Sustainable Environmental Quality: Priority Research Questions for Europe | |
| UBA | Federal Environment Minister Svenja Schulze presents plan for glyphosate-phase-out plan | |
| Background paper of the UBA on antibiotics and antibiotic resistance in the environment | ||
| Scientific Opinion Paper: A blind spot in the assessment of POP/PBT/vPvB properties | ||
| UBA Background Paper: 1987-2017: 30th Anniversary of the Montreal Protocol | ||
| UBA-Texte 79/2018: PINETI-3: | ||
| NO2 pollution 2017 - updated data available | ||
| Recommendations for reducing micropollutants in the aquatic environment | ||
| Quantification of environmental burden of disease due to nitrogen dioxide exposure in Germany | ||
| Workshop: The implementation of the Stockholm- Convention in Germany | ||
| UBA background paper on air quality 2017 - Preliminary evaluation | Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox 1/18 | |
| UBA-Texts 09/2018: Assessment of persistence, mobility and toxicity (PMT) of 167 REACH registered substances | Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox 1/18 | |
| UBA-Texts 04/2018: Residues of anticoagulants applied as rodenticides in wild biota | Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox 1/18 | |
| UBA-Texte 114/2017: Are biocide emissions into the environment already at alarming levels? | Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox 1/18 | |
| Federal Environment Agency Austria | UBA-Austria: Derived tolerance values for selected active pharmaceutical ingredients in drinking water | Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox 1/18 |
| UN Environment | UNEP-Overview Reports on Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals Now Publicly Available | |
| VDI Association of German Engineers | Emissions of air pollutants and greenhouse gases due to motor vehicletraffic |
| Institution | Title | Source |
|---|---|---|
| BfR Federal Institute for Risk Assessment | Nanoparticles: Where do they stay, and how do they change? | Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox 3/17 |
| BVL Federal Office of Consumer Protection and Food Safety | Lead and cadmium in costume jewellery | Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox 1/17 |
| BMU Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Building and Nuclear Safety | Diesel cars: Software updates not enough for clean air | Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox 3/17 |
| Recommendations from the Federal Environment Ministry on carrying out PFC-research projects | Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox 3/17 | |
| EAWAG Water Research Institute of the ETH Domain Switzerland | EAWAG study: Arsenic risk in Pakistan much greater than assumed | Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox 3/17 |
| EAWAG study: Pharmaceuticals in water limit plankton diversity | Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox 2/17 | |
| Persistently high pesticide pollution in small Swiss streams | Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox 2/17 | |
| ECHA European Chemical Agency | Data on 15 000 chemicals now available to use | Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox 2/17 |
| Glyphosate not classified as a carcinogen by ECHA (European Chemicals Agency) | Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox 2/17 | |
| EFSA European Food Safety Authority | EU-report on antimicrobial resistance | Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox 2/17 |
| EFSA-OpenFoodTox: Open Access to Scientific Output | Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox 1/17 | |
| Endocrine disruptors: EFSA and ECHA outline Guidance plans | Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox 1/17 | |
| EEA European Environment Agency | More action is needed to protect the natural environment and people's health | Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox 1/17 |
| European water policies and human health - Combining reported environmental information | Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox 1/17 | |
| European Commission | The Environmental Implementation Review (EIR) | Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox 1/17 |
| European Commission registers 'Ban Glyphosate' European Citizens' Initiative | Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox 1/17 | |
| Reduction of national emissions of atmospheric pollutants | Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox 1/17 | |
| European Council Council of the European Union | EU is ready to ratify the Minamata Convention on Mercury | Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox 2/17 |
| EU Science Hub European Commission's science and knowledge service | Towards updated EU environmental standards for waste treatment | Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox 2/17 |
Department Earth Sciences | New DFG Collaborative Research Centre (CRC) 1253 "CAMPOS - Catchment as Reactors: Metabolism of Pollutants on the Catchment Scale" | Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox 1/17 |
| LABO Bund/Länder-Working Group on Soil Protection | Updated background values for inorganic and organic substances in soils | Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox 3/17 |
PNAS | Assessment of the current state of research into interactions between nanoparticles and dissolved organic matter (DOM) | Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox 2/17 |
| UBA Federal Environment Agency | Diesel cars: Software updates not enough for clean air | Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox 3/17 |
| REACH: Bisphenol A and perfluorohexanesulfonic acid (PFHxS) classified as substances of very high concern | Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox 3/17 | |
| NeuroBox - Assessment of neurotoxic effects in the water cycle | Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox 3/17 | |
| Suitability of laboratory simulation tests for the identification of persistence in surface waters | Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox 3/17 | |
| Joint effects of pharmaceuticals and chemicals regulated under REACH in wastewater treatment plant effluents - Evaluating concepts for a risk assessment by means of experimental scenarios | Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox 3/17 | |
| Evaluation of monitoring data on POPs, POP candidates and substitutes to elucidate causes, pathways and trends of environmental pollution | Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox 3/17 | |
| Development and dissemination of antibiotic resistance in the environment under environmentally relevant concentrations of antibiotics and its risk assessment | Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox 2/17 |
| UBA-Texte 15/2017 zu Biozideinträgen in die Umwelt | Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox 2/17 | |
| UBA-Texte 24/2017: Development of cornerstones for a monitoring programme for the assessment of biocide emissions into the environment | Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox 2/17 | |
| UBA-Fachbroschüre: Concepts for the reduction of pharmaceutical inputs from agricultural animal husbandry into the environment | Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox 2/17 | |
| Federal Environment Agency wants to better protect drinking water from "mobile" pollutants | Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox 2/17 | |
| UBA-Texte 74/2016: Recommendations for a test battery for the ecotoxicological assessment of the environmental compatibility of building products | Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox 1/17 | |
| UBA-Texte 82/21016: Aggregated Environmental Exposure Assessment and Risk Characterisation of Biocidal Products | Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox 1/17 | |
umwelt.nrw | TFA in water bodies and drinking water in NRW | Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox 1/17 |
| Institution | Title | Source | |
|---|---|---|---|
| AWI Alfred Wegener Institute | Microplastic particles in edible fish and herbivores | Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox 1/16 | |
| Bayerisches Landesamt für Umwelt | New funding project of the Bavarian Ministry of the Environment: "PureAlps" | Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox 3/16 | |
| Final report: Investigations on the accumulation of various persistent pollutants in terrestrial wildlife | Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox 3/16 | ||
| ECHA European Chemicals Agency | Launch of endocrine active substances information system (EASIS) | Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox 4/16 | |
| EEA European Environment Agency | Many Europeans still exposed to harmful air pollution | Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox 1/16 | |
| Europe reduced use of ozone layer-harming chemicals in 2015 | Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox 4/16 | ||
| EFSA European Food Safety Authority | Pesticides: Breakthrough in cumulative risk assessment | Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox 1/16 | |
| Public Consultation on the draft update of the guidance of the EFSA (European Food Safety Authority) Scientific Committee on the use of the benchmark dose approach in risk assessment | Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox 3/16 | ||
| EuChMS European Chemical Sciences | The Seville Declaration on the use of chlorine in warfare | Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox 4/16 | |
| Chemists Urge Israel to Ban Chemical Weapons | Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox 3/16 | |
| GT e.V. Society for Toxicology | Arsenic exposure through food in Europe | Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox 1/16 | |
| ITEM Fraunhofer-Institute of Toxicology and Experimental Medicine | Toxicology in transition - Fraunhofer ITEM participates in the European research project "EU-ToxRisk" | Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox 1/16 | |
| LAWA Bund-/Länder-Arbeitsgemeinschaft Wasser | Report on the state of knowledge and discussion on mercury pollution in water bodies and the relevance of airborne sources | Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox 4/16 | |
| OECD | OECD report: Costs of global air pollution are likely to increase significantly by 2060 | Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox 3/16 | |
| PAN Germany Pestizid-Aktions-Netzwerk e.V. | Open letter from German NGOs to the Federal Minister for the Environment | Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox 4/16 | |
| Regierungspräsidium Karlsruhe | Groundwater contamination with trifluoroacetic acid | Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox 4/16 | |
| Societa Chimica Italiana | The Italian Chemical Society's Position on Climate Change | Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox 3/16 | |
| SWR | SWR report: Environmental scandal in Mittelbaden:Facts and figures on PFC contamination | Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox 4/16 | |
UBA | Determination of potentially POP-containing waste and recycling materials - Derivation of limit values | . Derivation of limit values | Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox 1/16 |
| Protection of Biodiversity in the Risk Assessment and Risk Management of Pesticides | Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox 1/16 | ||
| Investigations on the presence and behaviour of precursors to perfluoroalkyl substances in the environment as a preparation of regulatory measures | Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox 1/16 | ||
| Glyphosate content in urine samples from the Environmental Specimen Bank over time (2001 to 2015) | Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox 1/16 | ||
| UBA-Texte 38/2016: POPs and Hg emissions from waste management facilities | Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox 3/16 | ||
| UBA-Texte 54/2016: Elucidating the causes of veterinary pharmaceuticals found in groundwater - Investigation of sites at risk of input in northern Germany | Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox 3/16 | ||
| UBA background paper: Nanomaterials in the environment | Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox 3/16 | ||
| UBA-Texte 57/2016: Audit gap in biocide assessment | Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox 3/16 | ||
| UBA-Texte 60/2016: Measures to reduce the input of micropollutants into water bodies - Phase 2 | Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox 3/16 | ||
| Harmonisation of environmental exposure assessment for veterinary pharmaceuticals and biocides | Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox 4/16 | ||
| The Water Framework Directive - Germany's waters 2015 | Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox 4/16 | ||
| Pharmaceuticals in the environment: Global occurrence and potential cooperative action under the Strategic Approach to International Chemicals Management (SAICM) | Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox 4/16 | ||
| Federal Environment Agency Austria | Active pharmaceutical ingredients in the environment: New study by the Federal Environment Agency Austria | Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox 3/16 | |
| Report 0577 (Federal Environment Agency Vienna): Brominated flame retardants in the environment | Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox 3/16 | ||
| University of Basel | Smallest plastic particles: The Rhine is one of the world's most polluted rivers | Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox 1/16 |
| Institution | Title | Source | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
BAuA | BAuA study: Occupational exposure to PAHs and laryngeal carcinoma - a systematic review | Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox 1/15 | ||
| BfR Bundesinstitut für Riskobewertung | BfR research project shows: Database of many REACH registration dossiers needs to be completed | Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox 3/15 | ||
| Notification no. 005/2015 of the BfR from 19.02.2015 on bisphenol A exposure | Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox 1/15 | |||
| BfG Bundesanstalt für Gewääserkunde | New EU water research project "FRAME" launched | Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox 3/15 | ||
| BMBF Federal Ministry of Education and Research | Europe-wide research programme on microplastics in marine systems launched | Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox 3/15 | ||
BMUB | Eight years of REACH- positive balance, but much remains to be done (Joint press release of the BMUB and UBA from 1.12.2014) | Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox 1/15 | ||
| Federal Office for Environment, Bern (Switzerland) | National Soil Monitoring in Switzerland (NABO) 1985 - 2009 | Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox 4/15 | ||
| BVL Bundesamt für Verbraucherschutz und Lebensmittelsicherheit | German Guideline for the Evaluation of Pesticide Mixtures | Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox 2/15 | ||
| National reporting "Pesticide residues in food" | Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox 2/15 | |||
| EFSA European Food Safety Authority | Acrylamide in food is a public health concern | Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox 3/15 | ||
| Nano in food and agriculture: Regulations require collaboration to ensure safety | Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox 4/15 | |||
| The 2012 European Union (EFSA) Report on pesticide residues in food: Over 97% of foods in EU contain pesticide residues within legal limits | Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox 1/15 | |||
| EFSA call for new scientific information on the use of neonicotinoid pesticides | Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox 2/15 | |||
| Envirenmental Protection Agency | Recent International Developments under the Montreal Protocol concerning hydrofluorocarbons | Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox 4/15 | ||
EU | Pesticides: Experts endorse new EU list of candidates for substitution | Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox 1/15 | ||
| EU proposes global phase-down of HFCs under Montreal Protocol | Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox 2/15 | |||
| The European Commission's proposal to ban 4 phthalates in all electrical and electronic equipment (EEE) | . and electronic equipment (EEE) | Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox 2/15 | ||
| Air quality: Members of European Parliament approve new national caps on pollutants | Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox 4/15 | |||
| More efficient monitoring of drinking water | Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox 4/15 | |||
| The European Commission organises a consultation on a possible restriction of hazardous substances (CMR 1A and 1B) in textile articles and clothing for consumer use under Article 68(2) of Regulation EC No 1907/2006 (REACH). | Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox 4/15 | |||
| EuCheMS European Chemical Sciences | EuCheMS on the 100 years of chemical weapons memory and responsible science | Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox 2/15 | ||
| European Environment Agency | The European Environment State and Outlook 2015 - SOER 2015 | Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox 2/15 | ||
| Fraunhofer IGB | Trinkwassercheck Deutschland - Jede sechste Probe bers Grenzwert | Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox 4/15 | ||
| GDCh Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker | "Declaration without ifs and buts">Water chemists call for disclosure of all fracking chemicals | Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox 1/15 | ||
| New findings in the assessment of health effects of cosmetic products | Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox 4/15 | |||
| JRC Institute of Health and Consumer Protection of the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission | Interlaboratory comparison study of the Colony Forming Efficiency assay for assessing cytotoxicity of nanomaterials | Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox 2/15 | ||
| JRC report: First Watch List for emerging water pollutants | Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox 4/15 | |||
| Ministry of Science, Forschung und Kunst Baden-Württemberg | New Eff-Net research network to investigate the effects of micropollutants in water | Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox 4/15 | ||
| MPI Max Planck Institute for Chemistry | Climate change will increase the accumulation of DDT in the Arctic | Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox 2/15 | ||
| OECD Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development | OECD releases new data on nanomaterials - registrants asked to consider the information | Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox 3/15 | ||
| UBA Umweltbundesamt | UBA-Texte 25/2015: Testing and validation of the applicability of novel passive samplers for the monitoring of priority pollutants under the WFD, the MSFD and within the framework of HELCOM and OSPAR in the period 01.01.2010 - 30.10.2012 | Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox 3/15 | ||
| UBA-Texte 28/2015: Umweltprobleme der Landwirtschaft: 30 Jahre SRU Sondergutachten - eine Bilanz | Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox 4/15 | |||
| UBA-Positionspapier Biozide: Proposal for a European approach to sustainable environmentally sound use | Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox 3/15 | |||
| Eight years of REACH- positive balance, but much remains to be done (Joint press release of the BMUB and UBA from 1.12.2014) | Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox 1/15 | |||
| Air quality 2014: Nitrogen dioxide becomes number one pollutant (UBA Press Release No. 5 of 09 February 2015) | .2015) | Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox 1/15 | ||
| Maßnahmen zur Verminderung des Eintrages von Mikroschadstoffen in die Gewässer - Kurzbericht (UBA-Texte 86/2014) | Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox 1/15 | |||
| Proposal for a concerted European approach towards a sustainable use (UBA-Position 12/2014) | Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox 1/15 | |||
| Federal Environment Agency Austria | Antifouling agents in water bodies: First investigation in Austrian harbours | Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox 3/15 | ||
| UFZ Helmholtz-Centre for Environmental Research | Global water risk from agrochemicals | Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox 2/15 | ||
| UKL Universitätsklinikum Leipzig | International research project investigates effects of chemicals on hormone balance | Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox 3/15 | ||
| University of Leipzig | Aufbaustudium Analytik & Spectroscopy at the University of Leipzig | Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox 1/15 | ||
| WECF Woman in Europe for a Common Future | ChildProtect-Life - Protecting Children's Health from Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals | Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox 3/15 | ||
WHO | Press release from the WHO Regional Office for Europe on potential exposure to asbestos in the workplace | Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox 2/15 | ||
| WWF World Wildlife Fund | Nitrogen: too much of a vital resource | Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox 2/15 | ||
| TFSP Task Force on Systemic Pesticides | Worldwide integrated assessment on systemic pesticides | Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox 1/15 |
| Institution | Title | Source |
|---|---|---|
| BfR | Are plant protection products in their applied composition more hazardous to health than their active substances? | Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox 1/14 |
| Restriction of carcinogenic PAHs in consumer products | Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox 1/14 | |
| BMBF | RiSKWa-Guideline "Polar organic trace substances as indicators in the anthropogenically influenced water cycle" published | Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox 1/14 |
| BVL Federal Office of Consumer Protection and Food Safety | 3. Report on antibiotic consumption and the spread of antibiotic resistance in human and veterinary medicine | Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox 2/14 |
| CVUA Freiburg Investigation Offices for Food Monitoring and Animal Health Baden-Würtemberg | Annual Report 2013: Plant protection products and organic contaminants in food of animal origin | Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox 2/14 |
| EFSA European Food Safety Authority | EFSA Risk Assessment Guidance for Plant Protection Products | Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox 4/14 |
| Public consultation on EFSA's draft opinion on acrylamide in food | Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox 3/14 | |
| New methodology to identify chemical risks in the food and feed chain | Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox 2/14 | |
| EMBO | MPG Research News (12.05.2014): Endocrine disruptors impair human sperm function | Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox 2/14 |
| ESCAPE project | EU study ESCAPE: Increased mortality risk from air pollution | Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox 1/14 |
| EuCheMS European Association for Chemical and Molecular Sciences | EuCheMS urges action on climate change | Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox 4/14 |
| Public Consultation on the Ratification by the EU of the Minamata Convention on Mercury | Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox 4/14 | |
| European Environmental Agency | Costs of air pollution from European industrial facilities 2008-2012 - an updated assessment | Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox 4/14 |
| GDCh Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker | Analytica Conference 2014 in Munich: On 1 April, particulate matter is on the agenda | GDCh press release 06/14 |
| The 5th Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change shows: Chemistry still has a lot to do | GDCh-Pressenotiz 15/14 | |
| JRC | Chemical pollutant mixtures: how safe are they? | Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox 3/14 |
| EC-JRC-report: Considerations on information needs for nanomaterials in consumer products | Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox 3/14 | |
| LUWG | Results of groundwater monitoring in Rhineland-Palatinate 2011/12 for pesticide active substances, relevant and "non-relevant" metabolites, pharmaceutical residues and perfluorinated surfactants | Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox 3/14 |
| Task Force of Systematic Pesticides | Worldwide integrated assessment of systemic pesticides | Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox 4/14 |
| UBA Federal Environment Agency | UBA-Texte 72/2014: Environmental hazard of selected TiO2 nanomaterials under consideration of relevant exposure scenarios | Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox 3/14 |
| Mixtures in the Environment - Development of Assessment Strategies for the Regulation of Chemicals under REACH | Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox 3/14 | |
| From theory to reality - Evaluation of suitable organisms and test systems for the biomonitoring of pharmaceuticals (Part I: Literature review) | Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox 3/14 | |
| Carcinogenicity and Mutagenicity of Nanoparticles - Assessment of Current Knowledge as Basis for Regulation | Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox 3/14 | |
| Identification of relevant emission pathways to the environment and quantification of environmental exposure for Bisphenol A | Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox 3/14 | |
| Pharmaceuticals in the environment are a global challenge | Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox 2/14 | |
| Protection of biodiversity of free living birds and mammals in respect of the effects of pesticides | Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox 2/14 | |
| Antibiotics and antiparasitics in groundwater under sites with high livestock density | Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox 2/14 | |
| Inventory and effectiveness of measures for air pollution control | Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox 2/14 | |
| Pharmaceuticals in the environment - avoid, reduce, monitor | Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox 2/14 | |
| Dioxins and dioxin-like PCBs in the environment and food chains | Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox 2/14 | |
| Fine particulate matter and nitrogen dioxide continue to pollute health in 2013 | Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox 1/14 | |
| Georeferenced Probabilistic Risk Assessment of Pesticides | Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox 1/14 | |
| Ecotoxicological combined effects from chemical mixtures Part 1 and 2 | Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox 1/14 | |
| Mobility, fate and behaviour of TiO2 nanomaterials in different environmental media | Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox 1/14 |
| Institution | Title | Source | |
|---|---|---|---|
| BAuA Federal Institute for Occupational Safety and Occupational Medicine | Regulate nanomaterials effectively with the REACH Regulation | Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox 1/13 | |
| BfR Federal Institute for Risk Assessment | Health assessment of perchlorate findings in food | Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox 3/13 | |
| Plasticiser DEHP is mainly absorbed via food | Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox 2/13 | ||
| Recommendations for the assessment of multiple residues of plant protection products in food | Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox 2/13 | ||
| Regulate nanomaterials effectively with the REACH Regulation | Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox 1/13 | ||
| Blacksmith Institute | The world's ten worst polluted places Current report no. 8 by the Green Cross and the Blacksmith Institute | Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox 4/13 | |
| EEA European Environment Agency | Europe's environment now healthier - but new risks emerging | Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox 2/13 | |
| EEA Press Release: Air pollution still harming health across Europe (15.10.2013) | Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox 4/13 | ||
| EFSA European Food Safety Authority, Parma, Italy | Scientific Opinion on the identification of pesticides to be included in cumulative assessment groups on the basis of their toxicological profile | Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox 3/13 | |
| European Commission | FP7 Environment 2013 - Water Innovation & Demonstration Projects Call | Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox 1/13 | |
| European Environment Agency | The 2013 Berlaymont Declaration on Endocrine Disrupters | Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox 3/13 | |
| LFU | LfU-Research project for the purification of water containing PFCs - Bavarian State Office for the Environment operates pilot plant at Nuremberg Airport | Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox 2/13 | |
| IWS | EU research project "NanoRem" | Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox 3/13 | |
| UBA Federal Environment Agency | New limit value for lead in drinking water | Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox 4/13 | |
| REACH: EU confirms properties of very high concern for chemical in outdoor clothing | Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox 3/13 | ||
| Plasticiser DEHP is mainly absorbed via food | Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox 2/13 | ||
| Worldwide "out" for flame retardant HBCD | Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox 2/13 | ||
| New website Thru.de informs about environmental quality in Germany | Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox 1/13 | ||
| Mothers and children tested for pollutants across Europe | Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox 1/13 | ||
| Regulate nanomaterials effectively with the REACH Regulation | Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox 1/13 | ||
| Pesticides can endanger amphibians - need for action on plant protection products | Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox 1/13 | ||
| Ring test: transformation of veterinary pharmaceuticals and biocides in liquid manure | Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox 1/13 | ||
| REACH limits environmental toxins in outdoor clothing |
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| UFZ Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research | New Centre for Water Research TU Dresden and UFZ pool their capacities | UFZ press release from 01.10.13 | |
| UNEP United Nations Environment Programme | WHO / UNEP - Report: State of the Science of Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals 2012 | Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox 1/13 | |
| Minamata Convention Agreed by Nations Jan 19, 2013 | Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox 1/13 |
| Institution | Title | Source |
|---|---|---|
| BAuA Bundesanstalt für Arbeitsschutz und Arbeitsmedizin | Characterisation of nanoscale properties of chemical substances under REACH | Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox 4/12 |
| BMBF Federal Ministry of Education and Research | New BMBF joint project: Risk management of new pollutants and pathogens in the water cycle (RiSKWa) | Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox 1/12 |
| BfR Federal Institute for Risk Assessment | Residues of pharmacologically active substances in foods of plant origin | Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox 1/12 |
| Contact allergens in toys: Health assessment of nickel and fragrance substances | Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox 2/12 | |
| DFG German Research Foundation | DFG Research Group INTERNANO: Mobility, Ageing and Functioning of Inorganic Synthetic Nanoparticles in the Land-Water Transition Zone | Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox 1/12 |
| MAK-value for chlorinated biphenyls lowered | Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox 3/12 | |
| EU European Union | Environmental protection and water: Proposal for reducing the risks of water pollution | Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox 1/12 |
| EEA European Environment Agency | Technical Report No 6/2012 on Atmospheric Pollutants | Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox 3/12 |
| Press Release: Many Europeans still exposed to harm-ful air pollutants | Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox 4/12 | |
| GDCh Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker | Statement by Prof. Dr Reinhard Zellner, Air Quality and Climate, at the conclusion of the climate summit in Durban | |
| IfT Leibniz Institute for Tropospheric Research e. V. | Which particles make the air hazy? | IDW (Informationsdienst Wissenschaft) |
Laves | Study: Arsenic in food | Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox 4/12 |
| TROPOS Leibniz-Institute for Tropospheric Research | Desert dust causes more sulphuric acid in the atmosphere Researchers discover new mechanism | TROPOS-Press release |
| UfZ Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research | Insecticides an increasing problem for water bodies in Europe in future | Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox 1/12 |
| UBA Federal Environment Agency | Compilation of monitoring data on environmental concentrations of pharmaceuticals (UBA-Texte 66/2011) | Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox 1/12 |
| Sewage sludge disposal in the Federal Republic of Germany | Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox 2/12 | |
| Position paper of the Commission on Soil Protection at the Federal Environment Agency: Uranium inputs into agricultural soils through fertilisers | Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox 2/12 | |
| Application of bioassays for characterisation of exposure pathways for endocrine disrupters from plastics (UBA-FB 001482) | Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox 2/12 | |
| Air quality 2011 - fine dust episodes characterised the picture | Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox 3/12 | |
| Strategies for reducing particulate matter pollution: PAREST final report | Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox 3/12 | |
| UBA-Texte 37/2012: Uranium in soil and water | Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox 4/12 | |
| UBA-Texte 38/2012: Determination of substance-related environmental quality criteria | Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox 4/12 | |
| UBA-Presseinformation Nr. 31/ 2012 from 14.09.2012: REACH: Federal Environment Agency recognises further substances as 'substances of very high concern' | Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox 4/12 | |
| UBA background paper (November 2012): "Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons: Harmful to the Environment! Toxic!" Unavoidable?" | Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox 4/12 | |
UNECE | Parties to UNECE Air Pollution Convention approve new emission reduction commitments for main air pollutants by 2020 | |
| New brochure: Impacts of air pollution on human health, ecosystems and cultural heritage |
| Institution | Title | Source | |
|---|---|---|---|
| BfR Federal Institute for Risk Assessment | BfR-Research project on the uptake of heavy metals and dioxins completed | Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox 1/11 | |
| Assessment of a possible cancer risk of nanomaterials and nanoparticles released from products | Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox 1/11 | ||
| CVUA Chemisches und Veterinäruntersuchungsamt Karlsruhe | Veterinary drug residues in animal foodstuffs - conspicuous samples from animal foodstuffs | . samples from slaughterhouses | Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox 3/11 |
| ChemSec Environmental Organisation of Sweden | When chemicals disrupt the hormone system | Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox 2/11 | |
| EICC Edinburgh Inter national Conference Centre | The Edinburgh Declaration on Reactive Nitrogen from the International Conference "Nitrogen and Global Change" | Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox 2/11 | |
| EFSA European Food Safety Authority | EFSA publishes first practical guidance for assessing nano applications in food & feed | Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox 3/11 | |
| E-PRTR | The European Pollutant Release and Transfer Register | Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox 3/11 | |
| UBA Federal Environment Agency | Preliminary evaluation of the air pollution situation in 2010: Exceedances of air quality limits again in 2010 | Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox 2/11 | |
| Emission of nanoparticles from selected products in their life cycle | Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox 2/11 | ||
| Standardisation of Emission Factors for the Exposure Assessment under REACH | Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox 2/11 | ||
| Carcinogens, mutagenic, reprotoxic (CMR) and other problematic substances in products | Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox 2/11 | ||
| Endosulfan becomes "dirty number 22" | Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox 2/11 | ||
| Expiry period for PFOS-containing fire-fighting foams ends in June 2011 | Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox 2/11 | ||
| Study on human exposure to pollutants in Europe | Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox 3/11 | ||
| Comparative analysis of estimated and measured BCF data (OECD 305) | |||
| Mineral oil-free inks for newspaper printing | Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox 4/11 | ||
| Basic principles for the development of a concept for environmental exposure assessments of single substances released from multiple uses under REACH | Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox 4/11 | ||
| Recommendations for simulations to predict the concentration of plant protection pesticide active substances and metabolites in groundwater (PECgw) | Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox 4/11 | ||
| UBA Umweltbundesamt (Vienna) | "Pollutants in humans - results of a human biomonitoring study in Austria" | . Study in Austria" published | Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox 3/11 |
| VDI Verein Deutscher Ingenieure | New VDI guideline on bioindication: Sampling of bream | Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox 4/11 |