Original contributions

I. Bantz, I. Valentin: Status of the collection and remediation of PFC contamination in Düsseldorf

L. Gehrmann et al .: Activity of estrogen and androgen active substances during and after ozonation of hospital wastewater

M. Riegel et al .: Entry paths of hexavalent chromium in raw water from drinking water suppliers

I. Mulder et al .: Quaternary ammonium compounds in the soil - implications for the development of antibiotic resistance

Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox 25th year 2019 No. 1, pp. 2-19

From the Division

New Division Board board elected for the term of office from 01/01/2019 to 12/31/2022
Annual review 2018 AK environmental monitoring
Miss Dr. Schwarz-Schulze retired
Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox 25th year 2019 No. 1, p. 20

Briefly introduced

Junior professorship for environmental systems analysis, Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen
working group "Organic Environmental Geochemistry", RWTH Aachen
Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox 25th year 2019 No. 1, pp. 21-23

information

Event announcements

Plastic in the Environment - Status Conference, April 9-10, 2019, Berlin
Gordon Research Seminar and Conference on Environmental Nanotechnology, 1-2. & June 2-7, 2019, Newry, ME, US
The PFAS Management, Mitigation, and Remediation Conference, June 19-20 2019, Westerville, Ohio, US
Atmospheric Chemistry - New Science in Air Quality and Climate, 28.07.-2.08.2019, Newry, ME, US
IPTC 2019 - 12th Int. Particle Toxicology Conference, September 11-13. 2019, Salzburg
13th Langenau Water Forum, 11-12 November 2019, Langenau

Short messages

UBA background document: Air quality 2018 - Preliminary evaluation Study by the MPI for Chemistry Mainz: Factory farming is the main cause of fine dust
Position paper of the DGP: Breathing: Air Pollutants and Health
UBA texts 106/2018 and 107/2018: Impacts of Heavy Metal Emission on Air Quality and Ecosystems across Germany
pesticides: EU Parliament approves proposals for a better EU approval process
REACH Compliance Workshop at the BfR
EU committee: Statement on emerging health and environmental issues
Discussion document of the Leopoldina: The silent spring - On the need for environmentally friendly plant protection
BfR press release 05/2019: EU research project EDCMET
Drugs in bugs: accumulation of pharmaceuticals in aquatic food webs
Hundreds of halogenated compounds in polar bear blood serum
CITEPro ?Chemicals in the Environment Profiler?

Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox 25th year 2019 No. 1, pp. 24 - 31

Personnel

Admission to the FG November 26, 2018 - February 20, 2019
Birthdays 2nd quarter 2019
Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox 25th year 2019 No. 1, p. 32

Published by the Division of Environmental Chemistry and Ecotoxicology of the German Chemical Society
ISSN: 1618-3258

Editorial staff:
Prof. Dr. Dr. Klaus Fischer
Analytical and Ecological Chemistry FB VI - Spatial and Environmental Sciences?
University of Trier Campus II, Behringstr. 21, D-54296 Trier
Tel. And Fax: 0651 / 201-3617 Secretariat: 0651 / 201-2243
Email: fischerk@uni-trier.de
Abbreviation: Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox
Design / technical implementation:
Dr. Matthias Kudra, University of Leipzig
Email: kudra@uni-leipzig.de

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PFC - groundwater pollution Düsseldorf-Gerresheim, "Lager 61" (source: article by I. Bantz and I. Valentin in this issue)

Editorial

The new Division Board introduces itself
Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox 25th year 2019 No. 2, p. 34

Original contributions

M. Lesch et al. In situ monitoring of freshly applied pesticides

C. Teuner et al .: A challenge for the approval authorities of plant protection products: The occurrence of the metabolite 1,2,4-triazole in groundwater

A. Focks: Use of mechanistic effect models in the prospective environmental risk assessment of plant protection products

T. Frisch et al: "Risk Profiler" in action - a comparison of the environmental risk profiles of insecticides

S. Knoll et al .: Relevance of ionic micropollutants - quantification of metformin and its transformation product guanylurea in biota

Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox 25th year 2019 No. 2, pp. 35 - 54

From the Division

Report from the Board
Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox 25th year 2019 No. 2, p. 55

Briefly introduced

Institute for water chemistry at the Technical University of Dresden

Laboratory for biochemistry and sustainable chemistry at the Münster University of Applied Sciences
Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox 25th year 2019 No. 2, pp. 55 - 57

information

Event announcements

Symposium ?Innovative Chemistry for Environmental Enhancement?, 7.-12. 07th 2019, Paris
23rd annual meeting of SETAC-GLB with participation of the GDCh Division "environmental chemistry & Ecotoxicology", 4.-6. 09. 2019, Landau (Palatinate)
SWEMSA-2019 workshop, 21.-23. 10. 2019, Erding b. Munich
21st DECHEMA Symposium ?Strategies for soil and Groundwater Remediation?, 25.-26. 11. 2019, Frankfurt a. M.

Short messages

Research initiative to preserve biodiversity - A FONA flagship initiative
Pesticide use allowed in hundreds of nature reserves
Field trial with neonicotinoids: honey bees are significantly more robust than bumblebees
IPBES Global Assessment Report on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services
Too many pesticides in small streams in Switzerland
Risk assessment of pesticides: Scientists call for revision of the approval process
Results of Phase 2 of the Stakeholder Dialogue »Federal Micropollutants Strategy«
coastMap - the marine geoportal of the Institute for Coastal Research
Fine dust pollutes the air over Africa
Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox 25th year 2019 No. 2, pp. 58 - 62

Personnel

Admission to the FG November 26, 2018 - February 20, 2019
Birthdays 2nd quarter 2019
Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox 25th year 2019 No. 2, p. 63

Published by the Division of Environmental Chemistry and Ecotoxicology of the German Chemical Society
ISSN: 1618-3258

Editorial staff:
Prof. Dr. Dr. Klaus Fischer
Analytical and Ecological Chemistry FB VI - Spatial and Environmental Sciences?
University of Trier Campus II, Behringstr. 21, D-54296 Trier
Tel. And Fax: 0651 / 201-3617 Secretariat: 0651 / 201-2243
Email: fischerk@uni-trier.de
Abbreviation: Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox
Design / technical implementation:
Dr. Matthias Kudra, University of Leipzig
Email: kudra@uni-leipzig.de

cover photo

Several sources can contribute to the shift of 1,2,4-triazole into the groundwater (article by Teubner et al. In this issue)

Editorial

(Micro) plastic in the environment - a persistent topic in science?
Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox 25th year 2019 No. 3, p. 66

Original contributions

H. Rahm et al .: New life without mine water?

W. Seitz et al .: Systematic recording of the trace substance pollution of a river water in the inflow for drinking water production

J. Funke et al .: Amidosulfonic acid - quantification of a small, highly polar molecule with reversed-phase LC-MS-MS

O. Happel et al .: KOLa - Continuous ozonation with slow sand filtration for oxidative and microbiological investigations on organic compounds

T. Bader: Data mining of LC-HRMS data for the evaluation of water treatment processes

Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox 25th year 2019 No. 3, pp. 67 - 88

From the Division

Report from the Board
Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox 25th year 2019 No. 3, p. 89

Briefly introduced

Marine Bioanalytical Chemistry Department of the Department of Biogeochemistry in the Coastal Sea, Helmholtz Center Geesthacht

Professorship for Instrumental Analysis, Department of Chemistry, Niederrhein University of Applied Sciences

working group "Functional Aquatic Ecotoxicology" at the iES Landau
Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox 25th year 2019 No. 3, pp. 89 - 93

information

Event announcements

# EnvChem2019: Advances in Environmental Chemistry, October 15, 2019, London
16th Int. Symposium on Persistent Toxic Substances, October 25-29, 2019, Hoboken, New York
5th Perspectives Day of the Division, November 20, 2019, Dessau
22nd Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry, January 12-16, 2020, Boston, MA, USA

Short messages

UBA brochure: Plastics in the environment
WHO study on microplastics in drinking water
Study of the degradation behavior of different types of plastic
BfR: New health-related guide values for the industrial chemicals PFOS and PFOA
Pesticide breakdown products pollute Swiss groundwater
LAWA report on groundwater quality - plant protection products
LfU report: Perfluorinated and polyfluorinated chemicals in Bavaria - Investigations 2006 - 2018

Addendum

Addendum to the contribution by T. Frisch et al., Mitt. Umweltchem. Ökotox 2019, 2, pp.47-50
Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox 25th year 2019 No. 3, pp. 94 - 98

Personnel

Admission to the FG 15.05.2018.-25.08.2019
Birthdays 4th quarter 2019
Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox 25th year 2019 No. 3, p. 99

Published by the Division of Environmental Chemistry and Ecotoxicology of the German Chemical Society
ISSN: 1618-3258

Editorial staff:
Prof. Dr. Dr. Klaus Fischer
Analytical and Ecological Chemistry FB VI - Spatial and Environmental Sciences?
University of Trier Campus II, Behringstr. 21, D-54296 Trier
Tel. And Fax: 0651 / 201-3617 Secretariat: 0651 / 201-2243
Email: fischerk@uni-trier.de
Abbreviation: Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox
Design / technical implementation:
Dr. Matthias Kudra, University of Leipzig
Email: kudra@uni-leipzig.de

cover photo

Beach littered with plastic waste (source: sablin / fotolia.com)

Editorial

Review of the environmental conference in Landau
Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox 25th year 2019 No. 4, p. 100

Original contributions

V. Hierlmeier et al .: ProtectAlps: Alps, persistent pollutants and insects

L. Zimmermann et al .: In vitro toxicity and chemical composition of plastic products

S. Tisler and C. Zwiener: Transformation Products of Fluoxetine Formed by Photodegradation in Water and Biodegradation in Zebrafish Embryos

Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox 25th year 2019 No. 4, pp. 101-108

From the Division

Paul-Crutzen Award 2019 to Dr. Richter-Brockmann, University of Münster, awarded
Report from the Board
Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox 25th year 2019 No. 4, p. 109

Briefly introduced

Common Forum on Contaminated Land in Europe
adelphi
Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox 25th year 2019 No. 4, pp. 110 - 111

information

Event announcements

Intersoil 2020, 2-3/03/2020, Brussels
5 ^th German Pharm-Tox Summit, the second-05.03.2020, Leipzig
Biomonitoring - Fit for the future, 4-5 March 2020, Augsburg
12 ^th Int. Conference on Air Quality - Science and Application, March 9-13, 2020, Thessaloniki
International Resource Chemistry Conference (ICRC), March 23-24, 2020, Darmstadt
8 ^th Global Nitrogen Conference, the third-05.07.2020, Berlin
Water 2020, May 18-20, 2020, Potsdam
Gordon Research Conference: Environmental Endocrine Disruptors, May 31 - June 5, 2020, Newry, US

Short messages

Reducing aluminum intake can minimize potential health risks
Review article in Nature Sustainability on the Montreal Protocol
OECD Report: Pharmaceutical Residues in Freshwater
Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL): Plastic & Health: The Hidden Costs of a Plastic Planet
UNEP: Global Chemicals Outlook II
Current texts and information from the Federal Environment Agency
Detection of pyrethroid and organophosphate insecticides in Swiss streams

Corrigendum

Corrigendum to the report from the FG Board of June 12, 2019
Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox 25th year 2019 No. 4, pp. 111-120

Personnel

Entry into the FG 26.08. - November 15, 2019
Birthdays 1st quarter 2020
Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox 25th year 2019 No. 4, p. 121

Published by the Division of Environmental Chemistry and Ecotoxicology of the German Chemical Society
ISSN: 1618-3258

Editorial staff:
Prof. Dr. Dr. Klaus Fischer
Analytical and Ecological Chemistry FB VI - Spatial and Environmental Sciences?
University of Trier Campus II, Behringstr. 21, D-54296 Trier
Tel. And Fax: 0651 / 201-3617 Secretariat: 0651 / 201-2243
Email: fischerk@uni-trier.de
Abbreviation: Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox
Design / technical implementation:
Dr. Matthias Kudra, University of Leipzig
Email: kudra@uni-leipzig.de

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Presentation of this year's Paul Crutzen Prize to Dr. Richter-Brockmann by the specialist group chairman Dr. Hahn (Source: S. Wieck)