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OUTCOMES
The first major event was an Expert Group meeting organised as a satellite workshop of 3rdInternational Passive Sampling Workshop and Symposium (IPSW 2009), held in Prague (Czech Republic). As a follow-up to this event, a NORMAN Position paper on the state-of-the-art and perspectives of passive sampling for emerging pollutants was drafted and published in 2011.
In 2011 the NORMAN Association, in collaboration with the European Commission (JRC, Ispra), organised a major interlaboratory study (ILS) focused on a practical evaluation of the passive sampling method. The study - sponsored by NORMAN and JRC in support of the Chemical Implementation Strategy of the Water Framework Directive (CIS WFD) - addressed several groups of pollutants including pharmaceuticals, polar pesticides, steroid hormones, fluorinated surfactants and brominated flame retardants in treated wastewater (Final report available soon). The study aimed to assess the reliability of passive sampling method in a comparison with the traditional water sampling approach. A total of 29 laboratories from Europe, North America and Australia participated in the exercise. Research Centre for Toxic Compounds in the Environment (RECETOX) of the Masaryk University in Brno significantly contributed to the study implementation. A Workshop for discussion and dissemination of the results of the intercomparison study was organised at JRC in Ispra (Italy) on 29th–30th October 2012. This ILS allowed the evaluation ofthe contribution of the different analytical laboratory procedures to the overallpassive sampling data variability. In most cases, between-laboratory variation of results from passive samplers was roughly a factor 5 larger than within-laboratory variability. Similar results obtained for different passive samplers analysed by individual laboratories as well as low within-laboratory variability of sampler analysis indicate that the passive sampling process is causing less variability than the analysis. These results demonstrated the difficulties laboratories experienced with analysis in complex environmental matrices. With the objective in mind to facilitate the future acceptance of passive sampling for a routine monitoring of environmental quality, asecond NORMAN Expert Group meeting: Linking Environmental Quality Standards and Passive Sampling, was organised on 3rd-4th July 2013 in Brno (Czech Republic). Invited experts in ecotoxicology (Member States’ experts for the derivation of EQS in support of WFD) and experts in passive sampling (analytical aspects) were brought together to discuss the possible routes to enable a better compatibility of WFD EQS and passive sampling results.
In 2013 an application of passive sampling for continuous screening of a large river was tested on the Danube in connection with the Joint Danube Survey 3 (JDS3) conducted from the 13th August to26th September 2013. The study received a financial contribution from the NORMAN Association for its strategic value in the investigation of the possible routes of integration of passive sampling tools in environmental monitoring (Report). A chapter of the JDS3 dedicated to the passive sampling results was published in 2015.
Most recently, a workshop on "Passive Sampling techniques for monitoring of contaminants in the aquatic environment: Achievements to date and future perspectives" was organised jointly by NORMAN and AQUAREF on the 27th-28th November 2014 in Lyon, (France). Passive sampling and water monitoring experts were brought together to conducta critical analysis of the remaining existing barriers in the application of passive sampling techniques. As a conclusion, a list of concrete actions needed in view of implementation of these tools in environmental monitoring programmes was established. A Position paper based on the outcome from this workshop was published in Trends in Environmental Analytical Chemistry in 2015.
2015. Position paper published in Trends in Environmental Analytical Chemistry
2013. Report on the Interlaboratory study on passive sampling of emerging pollutants - CM Onsite organised by NORMAN and JRC in support of CIS WFD
2011. Position paper: Passive sampling of emerging pollutants in the aquatic environment: state of the art and perspectives
Detailed list of activities
27th-28th November 2014 - Lyon (France) - Workshop and Position paper - Workshop on Passive Sampling techniques for monitoring of contaminants in the aquatic environment: achievements to date and future perspectives | Presentations and pictures from the meeting, to the article in TrEAC
2013 - Field application of passive sampling as part of the Joint Danube Survey 3 - A study for the application of passive sampling for continuous screening of large rivers was carried out in connection with the JDS3. Read more | Joint Danube Survey report SETAC presentation Solutions project presentations
3rd-4th July 2013 Brno (Czech Republic) - Expert Group meeting - A NORMAN Expert Group meeting: Linking Environmental Quality Standards and Passive Sampling was organised with invited experts in ecotoxicology (Member States’ experts for the derivation of EQS in support of WFD) and experts in passive sampling (analytical aspects) to discuss the possible routes for making WFD EQS compatible with passive sampling results. | Meeting programme and presentations
29th-30th October 2012, Ispra (Italy) - Workshop - A workshop for discussion and dissemination of the results of the intercomparison study on passive sampling of emerging pollutants - CM Onsite - was heldat JRC in Ispra (Italy) on 29–30 October 2012. | Workshop programme, presentations, minutes and outcome
2011 - Interlaboratory study - The NORMAN Association, in collaboration with the European Commission (JRC, Ispra), organised an interlaboratory study focused on a practical evaluation of the passive sampling method in support of the Chemical Implementation Strategy of the Water Framework Directive (CIS WFD). Read more | Report available, Video and pictures from the fieldwork
27th May 2009, Prague (Czech Republic) - Expert Group meetingand Position paper - The first NORMAN Expert Group meeting on passive sampling of emerging pollutantswas organised as a satellite workshop of the 3rdInternational Passive Sampling Workshop and Symposium (IPSW 2009). A Position paper on “Passive sampling of emerging pollutants in the aquatic environment: state of the art and perspectives” was publishedin November 2011 as a follow-up of the EG meeting discussion. | Meeting summary, minutes and presentations, Meeting report published in Journal of Environmental Monitoring, Link to the position paper
