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Chemicals policy and pollutants, REACH

Publications

Last changed: 05/07/2010

General

• Basic principles for the development of a concept for environmental exposure assessments of single substances released from multiple uses under REACH
• Conference Summary Record PDF / 60 KB
• Development of a Practical Guide for Determination of Conditions of Safe Use of Chemicals with the Aid of Scaling
• REACH AND THE RECYCLING OF PLASTICS - Reference manual for an appropriate implementation of the REACH requirements for the operators of recycling plants
• R&D-Project: Identification of Organic Compounds in the North and Baltic Seas
• Sustainable and Precautionary Risk Assessment and Risk Management of Chemicals, Part I: New Strategies for the Ecological Risk Assessment and Risk Management of Substances, Part II: Chemicals in the Environment which Interfere with the Endocrine Systems of Humans and Wildlife in German and English

Bioaccumulation

• Comparative analysis of estimated and measured BCF data (OECD 305) – Literature study with a special focus on differential accumulation of (mixtures of) stereoisomers

Biocides

• Characterisation of leaching of biocidal active substances of main group 2 "preservatives" from different materials under weathering conditions
• Efficiency and practicability of risk mitigation measures for biocidal products with focus on disinfectants
• Efficiency and practicability of risk mitigation measures for biocidal products - Wood preservatives and insecticides
• Elaboration of a concept for the cumulative environmental exposure assessment of biocides
• Matrix parameters and storage conditions of manure
• Technical protocol: Transformation of biocides in liquid manures
  • research report
  • technical protocol

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Bisphenol A

• Bisphenol A – An industrial chemical with adverse effects

Chemicals policy

• Development of a Practical Guide for Determination of Conditions of Safe Use of Chemicals with the Aid of Scaling
• Recommendations for Simulations to Predict Environmental Concentrations of Active Substances of Plant Protection Products and their Metabolites in Groundwater (PECgw) in the National Assessment for Authorisation in Germany
• Standardisation of Emission Factors for the Exposure Assessment under REACH
• Substances classified as carcinogenic, mutagenic and toxic for reproduction (CMR) and other substances of concern in consumer products – Identification of relevant substances and articles, analytical control and consequences for the regulation of chemicals
  • English-language summary PDF / 146 KB
  • complete version in German

Dioxins

• Opinions of the Scientific Committee on Food (SCF) on the Risk Assessment of Dioxins and Dioxin-like PCBs in Food
• November 2000 PDF / 520 KB
• May 2001 PDF / 69 KB
• Comments on the Opinions of the SCF by the Federal Environment Agency PDF / 439 KB
• DIOXIN 2004
  24th International Symposium on Halogenated Environmental Organic Pollutants and POPs
• DIOXINS – Data from Germany: 3rd report of the Government / Laender working group on Dioxins
• DIOXINS – Data from Germany: 4th report of the Government / Laender working group on Dioxins

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Metals

• Incorporation of Metal Bioavailability into Regulatory Frameworks

Nanomaterials

• Analysis and Strategic Management of Nanoproducts with Regard to their Sustainability Potential – Nano-Sustainability Check – Final report
• Concept for a European Register of Products Containing Nanomaterials PDF / 363 KB
• Fate and behaviour of TiO₂ nanomaterials in the environment, influenced by their shape, size and surface area
• Investigation of widely used nanomaterials (TiO₂, Ag) and gold nanoparticles in standardized ecotoxiclogical tests
• Investigation of two widely used nanomaterials (TiO₂, Ag) for ecotoxicological long-term effects – adaption of test guidelines
• Nanomaterials and REACH - Background Paper on the Position of German Competent Authorities

Pharmaceuticals

• Matrix parameters and storage conditions of manure
• Survey of the different chicken housing systems and accumulating form of manure/slurry for the derivative of a standardised form of veterinary drug decomposition in expositions scenarios

Plant protection agents

• Ecological effects of the accumulation of copper in soil: Results of a literature review in German with English-language summary
• Recommendations for Simulations to Predict Environmental Concentrations of Active Substances of Plant Protection Products and their Metabolites in Groundwater (PECgw) in the National Assessment for Authorisation in Germany
• Thematic Strategy on Sustainable Use of Plant Protection Products – Prospects and Requirements for Transferring Proposals for Plant Protection Products to Biocides

Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons

• Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons - Harmful to the Environment! Toxic! Inevitable?

Sustainable Chemistry

• Guide on sustainable chemicals
• Sustainable Chemistry - Positions and Criteria of the Federal Environment Agency

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• more publications in German

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