Tag Archives: risk assessment

Predicting mixture toxicity of pesticides – concentration addition is often protective

In this post, Mirco Bundschuh talks about their recent publication “Assessing the effects of field-relevant pesticide mixtures for their compliance with the concentration addition model – an experimental approach with Daphnia magna”.

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Costa Rica: A tropical e(coto)xperience – Part 1

In this series of posts, Carsten Brühl reports about his current trip to Costa Rica. Part 1 is all about his first impressions and what he learned about pesticide use on tropical crops such as the bananas that get shipped to Germany. Continue reading

New Amphibian Ecotoxicology project funded by the German Federal Environmental Foundation

In this post, Elena Adams is presenting her new project “The impact of pesticides on amphibians – Effects of environmentally relevant pesticide mixtures and formulations on German Anura” for which she received a doctoral scholarship of the German Federal Environmental Foundation.

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Environmental friendliness of mosquito control with Bti questioned

In this post, Carsten Brühl informs about their recently published paper “Decreasing Bacillus thuringiensis israelensis sensitivity of Chironomus riparius larvae with age indicates potential environmental risk for mosquito control”.

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