German Federal Environmental Agency

In Germany, the Human Biomonitoring Commission of the German Federal Environmental Agency continuously establishes the reference values of pyrethroid metabolites in urine, as there is a need for reference values to characterize the... 

Schade, B., Rothengatter, W. and Schade, W. (2002). Strategien, Mafinahmen und okonomische Bewertung einer dauerhaft umweltgerechten Verkehrsentwicklung. Final Report. On behalf of the German Federal Environmental Agency. Berlin Erich-Schmidt-V erl ag. 

Ewers, U., Krause, C., Schulz, C. and Wilhelm, M. (1999) Reference values and human biological monitoring values for environmental toxins. Report on the work and recommendations of the Commission on Human Biological Monitoring of the German Federal Environmental Agency. International Archives of Occupational and Environmental Health, 72, 255-60. 

German Environmental Specimen Bank Established to systematically collect, process, characterize, and store environmental samples. Blood and other human specimens have been collected since 1981 from about 100 unexposed persons (German Federal Environmental Agency 2006). 

German Federal Environmental Agency. 2006. Environmental Specimen Bank [online]. Available http //www.umweltbundesamt.de/uba-info-daten-e/daten-e/umweltprobenbank-des-bundes.htm [accessed July 7, 2006]. 

The data were assessed by the ISO 5725-2 protocol [3] implemented in the software package Prolab98 (Dr Uhlig, Quo Data, Dresden, Germany), which is routinely used by the German Federal Environmental Agency for evaluation of laboratory proficiency tests. Outliers were rejected by use of Grubbs test (P=l%) and Cochran s test (P=l%). 

Last but not least, a new institution was created, the German Emissions Trading Authority at the German Federal Environmental Agency (Deutsche Emissionshandelsstelle im Umweltbundesamt - DEHSt), for the implementation of the emissions trading system. This institution has more than 100 employees at present. 

The task of the Commission on Human Biological Monitoring of the German Federal Environmental Agency is to develop scientifically based criteria for the application of human biological monitoring and for the evaluation of human monitoring data in environmental medicine. In principle, two different kinds of criteria are recommended ... 

The German Federal Environmental Agency defined P-red use as unproblematic (like ammonium polyphosphate (APP) and ATH) in its risk assessment report on the most commercially important FRsin August 2001. 

German Federal Environmental Agency http //www.umweltbundesamt de/... 

The Blue Angel is a German eco-label for products and services [7]. The eco-label was introduced in 1978 and was one of the first worldwide environmental labels. The Blue Angel is an official label since it is owned by the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety in Germany. The award criteria are established by the Federal Environmental Agency in Germany with the support of scientific institutes and the industry. 

GerES (German Environmental Survey). 2005. Objectives. German Environmental Survey. Federal Environmental Agency, Dessau, Germany [online]. Available http //www.um weltbundesamt.de/survey-e/objectives.htm [accessed June 3, 2005]. 

UBA (Federal Environmental Agency)(1989) [Stat of facts. Polybrominated dibenzodioxins (PBDD) - Polybrominated dibenzofurans (PBDF). Second supplement Polybrominated biphenyls.] In Polybrominated dibenzodioxins and dibenzofurans (PBDD/ PBDF) from brominated flame retardants. Report of the working group on brominated flame retardants to the Environment Minister Conference. Bonn, Tederal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety, pp 95-97 (in German)... 

During the 1990s, the federal Environmental Agency of German sponsored a number of research projects aimed to establish toxi-... 

The results of earlier cadmium emission estimates within the German Federal Environmental Protection Agency, the available data from Paris Commission program (PARCOM), the European Soil and Sea Quality and Atmospheric Deposition of Selected Substances (ESQAD) data and emissions estimated by national experts in some countries are presented in Table 5 (Anon, 1994). 

Blue Angel is a German eco-label established in 1978 and is the oldest eco-label in the world. The criteria are established by the German Federal Environment Agency. The label has four different protection goals health, climate, water and resources. Blue Angel contributes both environmental and consumer protection (Uil-16 Url-17 Url-18). 

Since January 1, 1985, the Environmental Specimen Bank has been established as a permanent institution under the responsibility of the BMI (later the BMU, Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Reactor Safety). The Federal Environmental Agency (UBA) is responsible for co-ordination. Two specimen banks are subsumed under the general heading of the German Environmental Specimen Bank ... 

The pT-method has gained attention in other countries. In a GTZ project (German government-owned corporation for international technical co-operation or GTZ), the pT-method was applied successfully by the Environmental Agency (FEEMA) of the Federal State of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, to identify the toxicity of industrial effluents discharging into the Rio Paraiba do Sul and to characterize the toxicity of surface water in water bodies discharging into the Sepetiba Bay (Soares, 2000). In both cases toxic effects could be detected. The pT-value functioned as a useful discriminator that could distinguish different types of hazard potentials. 

DIN EC EIA EN EUWFD FEEMA Wastewater and Sludge German Organization for Standardization Effective Concentration Environmental Impact Assessment European Organization for Standardization European Water Framework Directive Environmental Agency of the Federal State of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil... 

Risk assessment activities of IPCS are supported financially by the Department of Health and Department for Environment, Food Rural Affairs, United Kingdom Environmental Protection Agency, Food and Drug Administration, and National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, USA European Commission German Federal Ministry of Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety Health Canada Japanese Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare and Swiss Agency for Environment, Forests and Landscape. 

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