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Microplastic in cod stomachs: Methods for laboratories in rural communities

By: de Vries, Adriana N.,Lusher, Amy L.,Carlsson, Pernilla,Pólsdóttir, Jórun D.,Hammer, Sjúrður,Chambers, Catherine

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Microplastic in cod stomachs: Methods for laboratories in rural communities

By: de Vries, Adriana N.,Lusher, Amy L.,Carlsson, Pernilla,Pólsdóttir, Jórun D.,Hammer, Sjúrður,Chambers, Catherine

Available online: https://pub.norden.org/temanord2022-532/ This project developed a best practice guide for the standardization of the analysis of plastics in fish stomachs which can be applied in small-scale laboratories with limited infrastructure, which is typical of rural Arctic areas. In order to monitor plastic in the North Atlantic marine environment and understand potential impacts of plastics for commercially important fish stocks, it is important to standardize methods. This study also used the new method to provide a comparison between cod stomachs in Norway, Iceland and Faroe Islands and found a distribution of microplastics particles ranging from 0-27% in detection frequency.

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Pharmaceuticals in Northern environments; what, where and how much?

By: Carlsson, Pernilla,Ólafsdottir, Kristín,Löve, Arndís Sue-Ching,Vogelsang, Christian,Dadkhah, Mona Eftekhar,Lindberg, Johan

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Pharmaceuticals in Northern environments; what, where and how much?

By: Carlsson, Pernilla,Ólafsdottir, Kristín,Löve, Arndís Sue-Ching,Vogelsang, Christian,Dadkhah, Mona Eftekhar,Lindberg, Johan

Available online: https://pub.norden.org/temanord2020-502/ Abstract [en] The present study has investigated and collected sales statistics of pharmaceuticals in Sweden, Norway and Iceland. A literature review of waste water treatment plants (WWTP) and the efficiency of different WWTP techniques was conducted and combined with a literature review of metabolization of pharmaceuticals in humans. These data have been linked and used for calculations of the amount of pharmaceuticals and their metabolites that actually reaches the aquatic recipient. A future recommendation is to include metabolites of pharmaceuticals in environmental impact studies to be able to assess and account for the chemicals that actually pass through a WWTP to the aquatic environment. No large differences regarding pharmaceuticals used were observed, and many were common in both Sweden, Iceland and Norway.

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