Federal Environmental Specimen Bank
The Federal Environmental Specimen Bank (abbreviation UPB ) makes it possible to examine the condition and exposure of people to pollutants at certain times in Germany . In the human area, the first samples date from 1981, in the environmental area from 1985.
The archive for environmental samples is located in the Fraunhofer Institute for Molecular Biology and Applied Ecology in Schmallenberg-Grafschaft , the one for human samples is located near Münster .
The Federal Environment Agency is responsible for the administration, coordination, data storage and evaluation of the results. In operation, it is supported by six external institutions.
rehearse
Samples are collected in six types of ecosystems :
- Agricultural ecosystems
- Ecosystems close to conurbations
- River ecosystems
- Forest ecosystems
- Marine ecosystems
- Near-natural terrestrial ecosystems
The following are taken:
- Limnic samples ( suspended matter and animal samples from rivers and lakes)
- Marine samples (marine animals, sea plants and sea birds)
- Terrestrial samples (land animals and plants)
- Human samples (body fluids and hair)
The substances or groups of substances examined are toxic or of other relevance:
- Metals
- Non-metals
- Organometallic compounds
- Chlorinated hydrocarbons
- DDT and metabolites
- Hexachlorocyclohexane
- Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons
- Phthalates
- Bisphenol A.
- Biocides
- Perfluorinated and polyfluorinated alkyl compounds
- Polycyclic musk fragrances
- Alkylphenol compounds
- Hexabromocyclododecane
literature
- V. Krieg, R. Wisniewski: Establishment of a database for the environmental specimen bank. In: BMFT Federal Ministry for Research and Technology - Environmental Specimen Bank 1988 pp. 107–112. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, doi : 10.1007 / 978-3-642-72872-3_11 .
- M. Stoeppler: Significance of environmental specimen banks - inorganic-analytical tasks and first results of the German environmental specimen bank program. In: Fresenius' Journal for Analytical Chemistry . 317, 1984, pp. 228-235, doi : 10.1007 / BF00494467 .
- R. Klein, M. Paulus, G. Wagner, P. Müller: Biomonitoring and environmental specimen bank. In: Environmental sciences and pollutant research . 6, 1994, p. 223, doi : 10.1007 / BF03166364 .
- Hendrik Emons: Environmental Specimen Bank and Analytical Chemistry , in: Nachrichten aus Chemie, Technik und Laboratorium 45 (1997), page 896-900.
Web links
- https://umweltprobebank.de
- https://www.umweltbundesamt.de/themen/gesundheit/pentung-des-menschen-ermittel/umweltprobebank-des-bundes
Individual evidence
- ^ Federal Environment Agency, Federal Environmental Specimen Bank : Zeitbezüge - Federal Environmental Specimen Bank .
- ↑ Federal Environment Agency, Federal Environmental Specimen Bank: Archive - Federal Environmental Specimen Bank .
- ^ Federal Environment Agency, Federal Environmental Specimen Bank : Development and Organization - Federal Environmental Specimen Bank .
- ^ Federal Environment Agency, Federal Environmental Specimen Bank: Ecosystems - Federal Environmental Specimen Bank .
- ^ Federal Environment Agency, Federal Environmental Specimen Bank : Specimen types - Federal Environmental Specimen Bank .
- ↑ Federal Environment Agency, Federal Environmental Specimen Bank : Analyte - Federal Environmental Specimen Bank .