Tag Archives: pharmaceuticals

Ecotoxicology goes large – challenges and opportunities of chemical monitoring at the macroscale

A new study on water monitoring data from a six decade period, highlights the challenges and opportunities of large-scale chemical monitoring and data analysis to assess environmental risks.

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Pharm-ERA offers 10 PhD positions

Ten doctoral positions are offered within the HORIZON Marie Sklodowska-Curie Action (MSCA) Doctoral Network Pharm-ERA: “Improving monitoring and Environmental Risk Assessment of Pharmaceuticals, antimicrobial resistance, and pathogens from terrestrial to aquatic environments”.

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EU risk assessments for pharmaceuticals overestimate dilution of effluents in receiving waters

In this post, Moritz Link reports about his recently published paper “Comparison of dilution factors for German wastewater treatment plant effluents in receiving streams to the fixed dilution factor from chemical risk assessment”.

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