Recent progress of the P-LEACH consortium and future steps were discussed at GEOMAR on January 30-31, 2024.
Conference presentation
Frank Menger presented his current work at the International Conference on Non-Target Screening (ICNTS 23), 2023, Erding (Germany): "Plastic, water & the sun - Characterization of chemicals leaching from plastic under UV light treatment". Another presentation was "Environmental Chemicals and Human Health" at the HEAL 2023 – Collective Action for Health, Environment and Climate, 2023 in Australia.
Workshop presentation
Lars Hildebrandt presented "Development and Validation of Methods for the Sampling, Extraction and Analysis of Marine Microplastics" at the Agilent LDIR 8700 User Community Meeting 2023.
New paper out
For prediction of the partitioning of chemicals from low-density polyethylene to blood and adipose tissue, please see https://doi.org/10.1002/jbm.b.35304.
Progress meeting @ Hereon
P-LEACH team joining the progress meeting in Geesthacht, with team Helgoland on Zoom as a result of the storm.
Thanks for all the updates presented in Geesthacht on July 6-7, and looking forward to our upcoming joint experiments!
New publication
New insights into the microbial communities on microplastic samples from the North Atlantic and Great Pacific Garbage Patches. Please see https://doi.org/10.5897/AJMR2022.9682.
