Assessment
The
assessment of chemical risk and the support of decisions regarding integrated
watershed management is an important part of our work to ensure that the
results of our process-oriented research contribute to solving practical
problems. In the field of chemical risk assessment we specifically develop
advanced fate models and prediction tools for chemical fate properties to
improve chemical risk assessment procedures. Our work on assessment questions
reaches from giving recommendations to federal offices, consulting of producers
and chemical industry all the way to furthering the advancement of existing
laws and guidelines in a Swiss and European context. Assessment questions can
only be successfully addressed in close collaboration with the stakeholders. In
our case these are various Swiss federal offices such as the Federal Office for
the Environment (FOEN) or the Federal Office for Agriculture (FOAG), national
and international committees working on assessment questions such as the OECD
or EMEA (European Medicines Agency), working groups of Dechema and GDCh, as
well as producers of chemical products such as the agrochemical and
pharmaceutical industry.
Projects
- Improved strategy to assess chemical persistence at the water-sediment interface (LRI ECO18-Eawag) [...]
- MicroPoll [...]
Closed projects
- KoMet - Combined modeling and measurement approach for the identification of relevant transformation products in water resources [...]
- Feasibility study "Critical Source Areas" [...]
- Evaluation of the ecological measures in agriculture - natural waters, pesticides and the Swiss policy [...]
- Aquarec [...]
- Prioritization of relevant transformation products of micropollutants [...]
- ERAPharm (Environmental Risk Assessment of Pharmaceuticals) [...]
- Heterocyclic aromatic compounds and other tar oil typical contaminants in groundwater - identification, quantification and metabolism [...]
- Water quality criteria [...]