The time for ambitious action is now: Science-based recommendations for plastic chemicals to inform an effective global plastic treaty 👉 sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

New publication from our department in the field of Exposomics - revealing intake patterns of pesticide exposure and polyphenols: doi.org/10.1016/j.envi…

Earlier this month, we held a great workshop in Kirchvers together with our colleagues from GU Frankfurt and Aachen. It was two days full of science, fun, and even some time for canoeing and karaoke

Annika Jahnke was interviewed for this podcast hosted by Clark Marchese, who goes beyond the straw and interviews economists, historians, scientists and activists to talk about all things plastic. pineforestpods.com/plastic-podcas…

SAFE THE DATE - 21-22 October: NORMAN Workshop, Artificial Intelligence (#AI) for environmental monitoring, assessment and priotisation of chemicals and their mixtures. At UFZ - but you can also join us online: ufz-de.zoom-x.de/j/61949414581?…

For all who want to participate remotely in the Norman KI workshop next week, here is the final agenda:

This article on " A multidisciplinary perspective on the role of plastic pollution in the triple planetary crisis" has been recently published 👉 sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Our researcher #SaskiaFinckh recently gave an interview as part of the 3Sat series "nano" on the subject of "Pesticides in our waters". Watch it here in the media library (only available in German) 👉 3sat.de/wissen/nano/24…

An eventful week lies behind us - the start was made by a very fruitful Stakeholder Meeting @UFZ with the P-LEACH consortium & representatives from regulation, industry, an NGO, also including other scientists on October 22-23. Thanks to everyone involved for this great exchange!

This Wednesday we had a visit from Nestor Etxebarria from PiE-UPV/EHU. In his Healthy Planet Lecture he talked about the work to transform the estuary and bay of Plentzia into a One Health Living Lab.

Thank you to everyone who joined the NORMAN #AI workshop! Sharing insights and ideas and collaborating are what drive us forward. Let's build on the fruitful discussions together! 👏

As part of the ‘Healthy Planet’ Lecture Series & the P-LEACH Stakeholder Workshop, Prof. Dr. Heather Leslie recently gave a lecture on ‘Current environmental plastic and associated chemicals research and paths forward’.

🥳🥳Congratulations Saskia on the successful defence of your doctoral thesis about "Linking of Chemical and Effect-Based Monitoring to Support Comprehensive Assessment of Pollution in Wastewater and Surface Water". We are very happy for you🥳🥳!!!

Our extensive study on water quality in the mega-city of #Lahore, Pakistan, shows very high #contamination with #pesticides, #pharmaceuticals and other chemicals. Extreme concentrations of the insecticide #etofenprox. High #risk for ecosystems and human health. @UFZ_CITE UFZ

We are excited to announce our latest publication: "Occurrence and potential risk of steroid hormones in selected surface water and wastewater treatment plants in western Kenya." doi.org/10.1016/j.envp…

Finally the nanoINHALE consortium reached completion! We had a very interactive kickoff workshop on January 22, addressing both scientific aspects and considerations that facilitate close interaction. Looking forward to this exciting project!

Annika Jahnke, Dana Kühnel and Christian Schmidt recently wrote a very interesting article on the Bertelsmann Stiftung's “transforming economies” blog. Check out here 👉transforming-economies.de/mehr-als-muell…

Excited about our annual PARC 4.3_E01 project meeting in Leipzig, where we explored the first results of our Pan-European Study; from target & non-target screening to effect-based analysis of wastewater. Thanks for all the great contributions!

🚨 New Research Alert! 🚨We’re excited to share our latest publication from our group! We analyzed daily patterns in influent wastewater with non-targeted analysis for micropollutants => doi.org/10.1021/acs.es…