Publications

Estimating CRM loss in WEEE recycling process using MFA

Bourgé, Émilien; Abbasi, Golnoush

Evaluation of EarthCARE radiation products

Svendby, Tove Marit; Gressløs, Benjamin; Sollum, Espen; Stebel, Kerstin; Fjæraa, Ann Mari

Quantifying the Potential of Digital Innovations to Advance Circular Economy in Consumer and Industrial Goods

Boero, Riccardo; Hernandez, Miguel Las Heras; Bouman, Evert; Guerreiro, Cristina

Congener group profiles of MCCPs in environmental samples from Norwegian monitoring programmes, 2025

Nipen, Maja; Borgen, Anders

cVMS in the Arctic terrestrial and aquatic environment

Nipen, Maja; Hartz, William Frederik; Schulze, Dorothea; Christensen, Guttorm; Løge, Oda Siebke; Nikiforov, Vladimir; Bohlin-Nizzetto, Pernilla

Miljøeksponering for KMR-stoffer

Nipen, Maja; Bohlin-Nizzetto, Pernilla; Rostkowski, Pawel; Lysberg, Ingeborg Antonsen

EMEP-CCC: Progress of work

Aas, Wenche; Tørseth, Kjetil

Preliminary Analysis of Aerosol Size Distribution at Col Margherita

Rossetti, Claudia; Favaro, Eleonora; Barbaro, Elena; Feltracco, Matteo; Gambaro, Andrea; Giovannini, Lorenzo; Doglioni, Giorgio; Cassiani, Massimo; Paolantiono, Marco Di; Rajput, Akanksha; Zardi, Dino; Cairns, Warren Lee Raymond

Real-time monitoring of transport-related air and noise pollution in European cities (Net4Cities): Monitoring plan and approach

Poppel, Martine Van; Peters, Jan; Schmitz, Sean; Wegener, Robert; Adam, Max; Pajunoja, Aki; Dusseldorp, Saskia Drossaert van; Pikridas, Michael; Soares, Joana; Pozo, Roberto Sanz; Vanherle, Kris; Schneidemesser, Erika von

Decreasing or increasing pollution in the Mediterranean atmosphere? 16 years of black carbon observations at the Monte Cimone GAW Global Station integrated with FLEXPART and COPERNICUS products

Zanatta, Marco; Bonasoni, Paolo; Cristofanelli, Paolo; Eckhardt, Sabine; Evangeliou, Nikolaos; Magnani, Cecilia; Putero, Davide; Renzi, Laura; Vogel, Franziska

Air quality maps of EEA member and cooperating countries for 2023. PM10, PM2.5, O3, NO2, NOx and BaP spatial estimates and their uncertainties

Horálek, Jan; Vlasáková, Leona; Schreiberová, Markéta; Benešová, Nina; Schneider, Philipp; Kurfürst, Pavel; Tognet, Frédéric; Vlček, Ondřej; Školoudová, Lucie

The report provides the annual update of the European air quality concentration maps and population and vegetation exposure estimates for human health related indicators of pollutants PM10 (annual average, 90.4 percentile of daily means), PM2.5 (annual average), ozone (93.2 percentile of maximum daily 8-hour means, peak season average of maximum daily 8-hour means, SOMO35, SOMO10), NO2 (annual average) and benzo(a)pyrene (annual average), and vegetation related ozone indicators (AOT40 for vegetation and for forests) for the year 2023. The report contains also maps of Phytotoxic ozone dose (PODY) for selected crops (wheat, potato and tomato) and trees (spruce and beech) and NOx annual average map for the same year 2023. The trends in exposure estimates in the period 2005-2023 are summarized. The analysis for 2023 is based on the interpolation of the annual statistics of the 2023 observational data reported by the EEA member and cooperating countries and other voluntary reporting countries and stored in the Air Quality e-reporting database, complemented, when needed, with measurements from additional sources. The mapping method is the Regression – Interpolation – Merging Mapping (RIMM). It combines monitoring data, chemical transport model results and other supplementary data using linear regression model followed by kriging of its residuals (residual kriging). The report presents the mapping results and gives an uncertainty analysis of the interpolated maps. It also presents concentration change in 2023 in comparison to the 5-year average 2018-2022 using the difference maps and exposure estimates.

European Topic Centre on Human Health and the Environment (ETC HE)

Human exposure to microplastic and UV stabilisers through Atlantic cod consumption: A focus on Norway

Collard, France; Hallanger, Ingeborg G.; Harju, Mikael; Herzke, Dorte

Worldwide, edible fish are well studied for plastic occurrence. Microplastic (MP) occurrence in edible tissues raises concern for the organism’s health, but also on food safety. In the Arctic region, MP occurrence in other tissues than the digestive tract of fish has not been published yet. Plastic-related chemicals such as UV stabilisers (UVS) were also scarcely studied in Arctic biota. Our objectives were to (1) provide data on MP occurrence in Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua) fillets, (2) quantify UVS in the same fillets, and (3) provide estimations of both MP and UVS intake by Norwegian and European consumers through cod consumption. Twenty individuals were collected in the Barents Sea, south-west of Svalbard. They were dissected onboard and a piece of fillet was used for the extraction of MPs in the lab. Particles’ identification was performed by µRaman spectroscopy. MPs were found in 45 % of the fillets, with an average of 0.25 MP/g ww. Only one UV stabiliser (UV-326) was detected, in four fillets. Based on consumption data of cod, an average Norwegian man and woman would ingest 20.8 and 33.5 MPs weekly, respectively. Considering a European diet, a weekly intake of 8 MPs and a yearly intake of 403 MPs through cod consumption was calculated. The impacts of MP exposure to humans are unknown. Through this study, rather than to raise potential risks of consuming fish, we aimed to trigger further research on microplastics occurrence in seafood, i.e. in the edible tissues of aquatic animals.