Monitoring & Testing Newsletter
February 12, 2009

This Week´s Featured News Stories
The state of our rivers: EU-wide survey results
A Europe-wide survey of rivers and streams has tested water samples for a range of polar organic pollutants. The study highlights the problems associated with the persistence of industrial pollutants and monitoring emerging pollutants. The continual entry of organic pollutants derived from personal care products, pharmaceuticals and industrial chemicals via wastewaters into rivers and streams is a cause for concern. Little is known about the long-term, potentially toxic effects of these increasingly complex mixtures of pollutants. Water-soluble compounds can also contaminate ground and drinking ...
New software to standardise risk assessment of pesticide pollution
Researchers have developed a computer tool to help standardise risk assessment procedures for pesticides across Europe. The software combines climate, soil and crops data specific to each location to help understand the potential impact of each pesticide used. Pesticides used in farming can contaminate surface and ground waters through a number of means: runoff, infiltration and leaching, for example, and can have a range of impacts depending on how they are dispersed. Extensive and harmonised data are needed to develop appropriate policies which can avoid some of the effects of pesticide contamination. ...
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