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NEWSLETTER

Five issues of the NORMAN Newsletter have been published on this website during the course of the NORMAN project.

Our main objective is to contribute to the maintenance of a "constant scientific watch" and to the wider dissemination of information on recent scientific publications, research projects, etc. in the field of emerging pollutants.

This activity goes on with the "NORMAN Bulletin on Emerging Substances", in which we address various topics, on each of which a NORMAN expert team will prepare a note with an overview of the latest scientific findings, gaps and priority research needs.

The Bulletin is disseminated to environment and health agencies, public authorities managing chemical contaminants, etc., and made available on this website.

You are invited to join our if you wish to receive a notification by email when the Bulletin is published on the website.

A NORMAN Newsletter will be published on this website twice a year. As well as information on the goals and progress of the project, the newsletter will also report on the current situation and specific problems relating to emerging pollutants in Europe (e.g. in individual EU Member States, river basins, soil, air and drinking water sectors, etc.) and provide summaries of the latest related European research initiatives, environmental policy developments and EU-funded projects.

The proposal is to convert this newsletter into a Scientific Watch Bulletin as part of the activities of the future NORMAN network.

You are invited to join our if you wish to receive the newsletter automatically by email.

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On this issue you will find:

Editorial by $dulio, Executive Secretary of the NORMAN network, INERIS, France
  • Scientific watch
    • Siloxanes: Cyclic methyl volatile siloxanes (cVMS) in the environment
    • Use of environmental specimen banks for investigations on emerging pollutants - recent case studies and outlook for future applications
    • Current concerns related to wastewater reuse and xenobiotics
    • Organophosphorous flame retardants
    • Position Paper on Passive Sampling of Emerging Pollutants in the Aquatic Environment: State of the Art and Perspectives
    • Workshop on Engineered Nanoparticles in the Environment: Analysis, Occurrence and Impacts
    • TransCon2011 Environmental Transformation of Organic Compounds: Towards a Joint Perspective on the Importance of the Importance of Transformation products as Environmental Contaminants
  • Projects
    • ENFIRO project, Life Cycle Assessment of Environment-Compatible Flame Retardant - Prototypical Case Study
    • PHARMAS project, Ecological and Human Risk Assessment of Antibiotics and Anti-cancer Drugs in the Environment
  • Life of the network
    • Milestones and achievements in 2010
  • Forthcoming events
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Editorial by $dulio, Executive Secretary of the NORMAN network, INERIS, France
Life of the network
Forthcoming events
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  • Editorial by $dulio, scientific co-ordinator of the NORMAN Project, INERIS, France
  • A review of recent publications on
    • Occurrence of organic wastewater contaminants in groundwaters and drinking water
    • Unravelling the sources of perfluorooctanoic acid
    • Determination of the solid-water distribution (Kd) coefficient for pharmaceuticals, oestrogens and musk fragrance in digested sludge
    • Chemical and toxicological assessment of organic contaminants in surface water using passive samplers
    • Tenax extraction as a tool to evaluate the availability of poly-brominated diphenyl ethers, DDT, and DDT metabolites in sediments
    • Influence of coexisting contaminants on bisphenol A sorption and desorption in soil
  • Research projects
    • PERFOOD - PERFluorinated Organics in Our Diet
    • AquaNano - Transfer and fate of engineered nanoparticles in groundwater
    • MEDIFLUX - Modelling pharmaceutical fluxes in hospital sewers
    • KNAPPE - Knowledge and Need Assessment on Pharmaceutical Products in Environmental Waters – Final results
  • Life of the network
    • Final meeting of the NORMAN project and Launch of the permanent network
    • NORMAN Joint Programme of Activities for 2009-2011
  • Forthcoming events
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  • Editorial by Alistair B.A. Boxall, Central Science Laboratory, York and University of York - UK
  • A review of recent publications on:
    • Fate of pharmaceutical and personal care products during anaerobic digestion of sewage sludge
    • Dechlorane Plus: Another flame retardant contaminating the European environment?
    • Effects of the UV filter benzophenone-2 on reproduction in fish
    • Determination of pKa values of active pharmaceutical ingredients
    • Adapting an ambient monitoring programme to the challenge of managing emerging pollutants in the San Francisco Estuary
    • Mass spectrometry for identifying pharmaceutical biotransformation products in the environment
    • Using semi-permeable membrane devices as passive samplers
    • Analytical techniques in studies of the environmental fate of pharmaceuticals and personal-care products
  • Research projects:
    • COST Action 636: Xenobiotics in the Urban Water Cycle
    • NANOSH: Inflammatory and genotoxic effects of engineered nanomaterials
    • ESTROM: Swiss-Romanian Co-operative Research Programme
    • PHARMSOMES: Environmental Exposure of Pharmaceuticals in the Somes Valley Watershed, Romania
  • Life of the network
  • Forthcoming events
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  • Editorial by Igor LISKA, Secretariat of the International Commission for the Protection of the Danube River
  • A review of recent publications on:
    • Triclosan in plasma and milk from Swedish nursing mothers and their exposure via personal care products
    • DMS: A new fungicide metabolite
    • Occurrence of polycyclic musks in sewage sludge and their behaviour in soils and plants
    • PFOS and PFOA in plasma of German population
    • Quantitative structure-retention relationships of pesticides in reversed-phase HPLC
    • Unidentified inert ingredients in pesticides: Implications for human and environmental health
    • How to assess the risks of nanotechnology: Learning from past experience
    • Expression of heat shock protein and hemoglobin genes in Chironomus tentans (Diptera, chironomidae) larvae exposed to various environmental pollutants: A potential biomarker of freshwater monitoring
    • Ecotoxicological Risk of Pharmaceuticals from Wastewater Treatment Plants
    • Determination of pharmaceuticals from different therapeutic classes in wastewaters
    • Total fluorine in water and in human blood
  • Research projects:
    • Joint Danube Surveys - ICPDR tool for searching the emerging substances
    • NanoInteract
    • Pesticides Atlas: Pesticides monitoring in the Netherlands
    • NEPTUNE
  • Life of the network
  • Forthcoming events
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  • Editorial by Dolf van Wijk, Eurochlor
  • A review of recent publications on:
    • Partitioning behaviour of five pharmaceuticals to activated sludge and river sediment
    • PCBs and PBDEs in indoor environment
    • Geosorbent properties of organic pollutants and bioavailability prediction
    • Perfluorinated compounds in German rivers and drinking water
    • Ecotoxicological effects of pharmaceuticals in aquatic organisms
    • Determination of pharmaceuticals in hospital wastewaters
    • Review of semi-automated determination of pesticides in water using SPE and GC-MS
    • Extraction and clean-up strategies for the analysis of PFCs in environmental matrices
  • Research projects:
    • FOOTPRINT - pesticides
    • HIWATE – disinfection by-products
    • KNAPPE - pharmaceuticals
    • RISKBASE
  • Life of the network
  • Forthcoming events
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  • Editorial by Christian Daughton, US EPA
  • A review of recent publications on:
    • Pharmaceuticals in sewage treatment plants
    • Sources, fate and transport of perfluorocarboxylates
    • Ecotoxicogenomics
    • Lessons from endocrine disruption
    • Environmental exposure pathways for DecaBDE
    • Detection of progesterone with fully automated immunosensor techniques
    • Identification Point approach for confirmation of emerging contaminants
    • Analysis of polar pesticides in water by LC-MS
  • Research projects:
    • The Environmental Nanosciences Initiative in the UK
    • MODELKEY
    • NoMIRACLE
    • PERFORCE
  • Norman activities
  • Calendar of events
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