No data, no risk? How the monitoring of chemicals in the environment shapes the perception of risks

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Jun 19, 2025, 2:00 pm66 ptsTrending
Several hundred thousand chemicals are considered as potentially environmentally relevant. Scientists from the RPTU Kaiserslautern-Landau in Germany show that monitoring data for surface waters are only available for a very small fraction of these chemicals.

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