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  • Press release 76/09 from 23.10.2009 | Last changed: 01.07.2013

    The United Nations - together for global chemicals management

    … drawn up under the UNEP. They are, to name a few, the 1987 Montreal Protocol on Substances That Deplete the Ozone Layer, the 1997 Kyoto Protocol aimed at combating … complements existing treaties on chemicals safety that govern a limited number of substances with certain properties (for example: the Stockholm Convention or the …

  • News from 10.07.2017 | Last changed: 21.08.2017

    Blue Angel ecolabel now available for toys

    a child´s hand playing with toys

    … proof of which must be furnished through periodic inspections. In addition, other substances which are harmful to the environment are also prohibited. Certain basic …

  • News from 09.07.2018 | Last changed: 27.07.2022

    HBM4EU Conference in September 2018

    Das HBM4EU-Logo

    … of environmental chemicals polluting the human population. To achieve this, various substances, their metabolites or markers for health effects are determined in …

  • Press release 35/2022 from 31.08.2022 | Last changed: 04.10.2022

    German Environment Agency assisting Brandenburg and Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania with research on causes of the Oder River crisis

    The river Elbe in the foreground with trees on the bank and blue sky.

    … pH levels and oxygen concentration. The monitoring programme for specific hazardous substances, which the EU Water Framework Directive requires for assessing the … current analysis of water samples which enable identification of more than 1,000 substances including many previously unknown chemicals. The testing regime can also …

  • Press release 46/2011 from 06.10.2011 | Last changed: 17.07.2013

    German Federal Environment Agency in favor of a international chemicals strategy

    … whose goal is to continue restriction of the use of the toxic heavy metal mercury. Substance regulation has triggered positive innovations in the past. Says Flasbarth, … of highly toxic pesticides such as chlordane or DDT and other persistent organic substances has been put into effect. ”Sustainable solutions are not only the result …

  • Press release 28/12 from 06.09.2012 | Last changed: 01.07.2013

    Tight restrictions on hydraulic fracturing required

    … the environment. It should also be determined whether it is possible to replace the substances giving cause for concern. In the experts' view, where there is a lack of relevant data on the substances used in hydraulic fracturing, deployment of this technology cannot be …

  • Press release 23/2016 from 14.06.2016 | Last changed: 23.01.2017

    Antibiotics: livestock industry and human medicine can pollute groundwater

     a lot of pills in different colours

    … - 20 ng/l (up to 70 ng/l). It was successfully proven at half of the sites that the substance originated from animal housing where it was used as veterinary medicine; … Lower Saxony) are still in the process of analysing the remaining sites. The active substance sulfadiazine and a relevant degradation product were also frequently …

  • News from 21.03.2023 | Last changed: 23.03.2023

    Advanced materials: steadily sustainable and safe

    Coloured area changing from pink to blue. Hexagonal shapes appear on different levels of the image and which reminiscent of chemical structural formulae. The shapes are shown either only in outline or filled in area.

    … materials. For example, coatings based on perfluorinated and polyfluorinated alkyl substances (PFAS) were considered promising, but turned out to be detrimental to … for the energy transition. On the other hand, these battery systems consist of substances or materials with properties of concern. The recycling of components and …

  • Press release 55/09 from 04.08.2009 | Last changed: 03.07.2013

    REACH and plastics recycling

    … recycling privilege as per Article 2(7)(d) REACH and a pragmatic interpretation of substance identification with regard to impurities. Reporting obligations In …