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Bioassays – The Need for Target Values for Micropollutants

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Ecologic Institute, DEMEAU 2013: DEMEAU – Bioassays – The Need for Target Values for Micropollutants. YouTube: https://youtu.be/NzLEu0KjlLU.

The EU funded FP7 project DEMEAU was a three-year demonstration project on promising technologies that tackle emerging pollutants in water and waste water. Bioassays are one of these techniques.

In this video, Dr. Frederic Leusch explains the advantages and shortcomings of the use of bioassays that still need to be tackled. He was the programme leader for "Water Quality and Diagnostics" at the Smart Water Research Centre, and is a senior lecturer at the School of Environment at Griffith University in Brisbane, Australia. He worked in the frame of the Australian water recycling guideline on the application of bioassays in risk assessment.

In the video, Frederic Leusch answers the questions:

  • What are bioassays?
  • Why are bioassays not used more often?
  • How could trigger values be implemented into policy?
  • What are the lessons learnt from Australia?
  • What is the role of DEMEAU in bioassays issues?

Advantages and shortcomings of bioassays to tackle pollutants in water and waste water.

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Dr. Frederic Leusch (Griffith University, Australia)
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Concept, Camera & Interviews: Johanna von Toggenburg & Evelyn Lukat (Ecologic Institute)
Editing: Beáta Vargová (Ecologic Institute)
Speaker: Dr. Frederic Leusch (Griffith University in Brisbane)
Music: Music for your Media – All Corporate, via www.jamendo.com

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Source URL: https://www.ecologic.eu/19362