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Highly polar compounds – II

The monitoring of highly polar compounds – particularly in low concentrations (ng/L range) – presents a great challenge. Compared with known, classical environmental pollutants (e.g., PCBs, pharmaceuticals, pesticides), there is a knowledge gap for highly polar compounds…

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Health
Emerging contaminants
Chain Explorer – fewer emissions

If it isn’t in the water, you won’t need to remove it. Besides end-of-pipe measures aimed at improving water quality, it is also advisable to study how emissions of substances earlier in…

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Health
Emerging contaminants
Toxicity: effect-directed water-quality measurement

This project is part of the Water Quality Knowledge Impulse. More than 140,000 chemical compounds are produced, used and traded in Europe. And a portion of them end…

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Experts

Elvio Amato PhD
Scientific researcher
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Elvio Amato PhD

Scientific researcher

Elvio Amato works as a scientific researcher in the Chemical Water Quality and Health team. His current research activities focus on the monitoring, occurrence and behaviour of emerging contaminants in…

030-6069754

elvio.amato@kwrwater.nl

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Audrey Biesmans
Technician
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Audrey Biesmans

Technician

Audrey Biesmans began working as a chemical analyst in the Laboratory for Materials Research and Chemical Analysis (LMC) in April 2021. She works primarily with liquid chromatography coupled with mass…

030-6069615

audrey.biesmans@kwrwater.nl

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Astrid Reus
Scientific researcher Project manager/Portfolio manager
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Astrid Reus

Scientific researcher Project manager/Portfolio manager

Astrid Reus began working as a project manager and researcher in the Chemical Water Quality and Health team this year (2019). She has extensive experience in the safety assessment of…

030-6069703

astrid.reus@kwrwater.nl

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News

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KWR participates in new European PARC project

31 May 2022 — Knowledge from the PARC project will help in carrying out chemical risk assessments and shaping substances policy.

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Microplastics and human health research in the Netherlands – Symposium MOMENTUM

16 November 2021 — Micro- and nanoplastic particles (MNPs) can be found nearly everywhere; in the air we breathe, in food and…

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Sources and effects of microplastics in water still not sufficiently known

22 February 2021 — The Deltafact Microplastics of the Chain Explorer, a project within the Water Quality Knowledge Impulse programme, was recently…

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Intelligent data acquisition method is a prize-winner

16 November 2020 — The identification of toxic compounds in drinking water is an important issue for the drinking water sector. KWR…

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Wastewater-based epidemiology: Wastewater reflection on society

16 June 2020 — Wastewater-based epidemiology (WBE) uses sewage as a source of information about citizens’ health and lifestyle. Analysis of sewage…

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A strategy for exposure science

18 July 2019 — On the fourth and fifth of July 2019, I joined the de ISES Europe Exposure science strategy workshop.…

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Column

Looking for a needle in a haystack? Non-target screening

02 July 2019 — Recent developments in analytical chemistry in combination with data handling appear to be a major gain for the…

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19th annual CEFIC-LRI workshop

27 November 2017 — Every year the European Chemical Industry Council organizes the CEFIC-LRI workshop. This year, I visited the 19th edition…

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Water Sector

‘Contaminants of Emerging Concern’ research programme begins

01 September 2017 — Today saw the start of a new research programme aimed at expanding our knowledge about the presence, hazards…

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Loet Rosenthal: KWR’s new Manager, Water Quality & Health

01 May 2017 — As of 1 May, Loet Rosenthal succeeds Idsart Dijkstra as the manager of KWR’s Water Quality & Health…

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Water Sector

Van Leerdam and De Voogt in special publication American Chemical Society

27 January 2016 — An article by KWR researchers Ton van Leerdam and Pim de Voogt, together with 19 other trend-setting pieces,…

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