… polled in Germany indicated they had visited the Baltic Sea at least once, and most listed beach stays or hiking as their leisure pastimes. There is general agreement …

… accumulate over time. PFOS, a pervasive PFC, has recently been added to the "black list" of the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs). PFCs …

… to poor water quality, and that certain bathing waters were purposely taken off the list to avoid negative results being reported in the report.  This was in spite of …

… The UBA has presented proposals in this regard. read more (in German) New substance lists for the investigation of biocides in the environment In 2017, the UBA issued … on the survey of environmental pollution with biocides. In the process, lists of biocides that are likely relevant and therefore need to be investigated … and environmental compartments, such as surface waters or agricultural soils. These lists of substances have now been updated and extended with the addition of two new …