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Open AccessExploring the ‘solution space’ is key: SOLUTIONS recommends an early-stage assessment of options to protect and restore water quality against chemical pollution
Present evaluations of chemical pollution in European surface and groundwater bodies focus on problem description and chemical classification of water quality. Surprisingly, relatively low attention has been p...
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Open AccessIncrease coherence, cooperation and cross-compliance of regulations on chemicals and water quality
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Open AccessThe European Collaborative Project SOLUTIONS developed models to provide diagnostic and prognostic capacity and fill data gaps for chemicals of emerging concern
The European Union Water Framework Directives aims at achieving good ecological status in member states’ water bodies. Insufficient ecological status could be the result of different interacting stressors, amo...
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Open AccessA holistic approach is key to protect water quality and monitor, assess and manage chemical pollution of European surface waters
Chemical pollution of surface waters is a societal concern around the globe. Key problems in current water quality protection, assessment and management are the narrow focus on a small fraction of the chemical...
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Open AccessPrioritisation of water pollutants: the EU Project SOLUTIONS proposes a methodological framework for the integration of mixture risk assessments into prioritisation procedures under the European Water Framework Directive
Current prioritisation procedures under the EU Water Framework Directive (WFD) do not account for risks from chemical mixtures. SOLUTIONS proposes a multiple-lines-of-evidence approach to tackle the problem ef...
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Open AccessHigh resolution mass spectrometry-based non-target screening can support regulatory environmental monitoring and chemicals management
Non-target screening (NTS) including suspect screening with high resolution mass spectrometry has already shown its feasibility in detecting and identifying emerging contaminants, which subsequently triggered ...
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Open AccessEffect-based methods are key. The European Collaborative Project SOLUTIONS recommends integrating effect-based methods for diagnosis and monitoring of water quality
The present monitoring and assessment of the chemical status of water bodies fail to characterize the likelihood that complex mixtures of chemicals affect water quality. The European Collaborative Project SOLU...
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Open AccessPolychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) as sentinels for the elucidation of Arctic environmental change processes: a comprehensive review combined with ArcRisk project results
Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) can be used as chemical sentinels for the assessment of anthropogenic influences on Arctic environmental change. We present an overview of studies on PCBs in the Arctic and com...
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Open AccessAn expanded conceptual framework for solution-focused management of chemical pollution in European waters
This paper describes a conceptual framework for solutions-focused management of chemical contaminants built on novel and systematic approaches for identifying, quantifying and reducing risks of these substances.
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Additives and Other Hazardous Compounds in Electronic Products and Their Waste
The demand for electronic equipment in society is increasing not only as a result of higher living standards around the world but also due to fashion. Many electronic articles are today disposed of before the ...
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Results from the Covered Catchment Experiment at Gårdsjön, Sweden, after Ten Years of Clean Precipitation Treatment
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Mercury and Methylmercury in Runoff from a Forested Catchment — Concentrations, Fluxes, and Their Response to Manipulations
Measurements of TotHg (total mercury) and MeHg (methylmercury) in runoff from the covered catchment G1 and the reference catchment F1 at Lake Gårdsjön, Sweden, have been performed and evaluated. The roof over ...
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Measurements of organic contaminants and metals in the Baltic Sea after the flood event (summary)
