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New publication in Chemical Research in Toxicology: “The potential contribution of hexavalent chromium to the carcinogenicity of chrysotile asbestos“

Asbestos fibers are carcinogenic minerals that induce non-malignant and malignant diseases after inhalation.

In this publication, Stephan Kraemer from EDGE together with the former PhD student Martin Walter and university assistant Walter Schenkeveld investigated whether Cr in chrysotile asbestos leaches ...

New publication in Environmental Science: Advances on Policy options to account for multiple chemical pollutants threatening biodiversity

Chemical pollution is a major threat to biodiversity. This has been acknowledged in the Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework, but, as it stands, action plans so far only address pollution with nutrients, pesticides and plastic waste. In this perspective, Gabriel Sigmund ...

New publication in Water Research on reproducible model freshwater particulate matter analogues

Aquatic fate models and risk assessment require information on contaminants' affinity for riverine suspended particulate matter (SPM). Particulate contaminants, such as engineered nanomaterials, incidental nanoparticles, micro- or nanoplastics, can not be assessed employing classical partition or sorption coefficients, since the underlying assumption of chemical ...

Welcome new group member: Florence Lehutso

Florence Lehutso joined EDGE as a postdoctoral researcher in October 2022. She will be working as part of the project "OECD test guideline development for nanomaterials: transformation of nanomaterials under environmental conditions” supervised by Frank von der Kammer. Her previous ...