A question that the European Commission was trying to answer in the release of their ‘Future Brief: nanoplastics: state of knowledge and environmental and human health impacts -Issue 27‘ . Whilst there has been some […]
Persistence, according to the guidelines of the Stockholm Convention, is evident where, chemicals have a half-life in the aquatic environment of over two months (i.e. it takes over two months for the chemical to break […]
A mechanism for monitoring potential emerging contaminants which may pose a risk to the water environment was established when the Directive on Environmental Quality Standards was updated in 2013. The first watch list was adopted […]
PFAS is just one of the emerging contaminants of concern at the moment but with the EU in 2013 setting an annual average environmental quality standard (AA-EQS) for PFOS in surface freshwater of 0,00065 μg/l […]