Towards a holistic and solution-oriented monitoring of chemical status of European water bodies: how to support the EU strategy for a non-toxic environment?

Abstract The definition of priority substances (PS) according to the Water Framework Directive (WFD) helped to remove many of these chemicals from the market and to reduce their concentrations in the European water bodies. However, it could not prevent that many of these chemicals have been replaced...

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Main Authors: Werner Brack, Beate I. Escher, Erik Müller, Mechthild Schmitt-Jansen, Tobias Schulze, Jaroslav Slobodnik, Henner Hollert
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SpringerOpen 2018-09-01
Series:Environmental Sciences Europe
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12302-018-0161-1