Emerging pollutants and their ecotoxicology information
NORMAN: Network of reference laboratories, research centres and related organisations for monitoring of emerging environmental substances. (https://www.norman-network.com/?q=node/19).
NORMAN has created a compilation of the most frequently debated emerging substances and pollutants currently (refer to the NORMAN Database System – Substance). Database at https://www.norman-network.com/nds/susdat/).
Emerging environmental substances are not necessarily new chemicals. They are substances that have often long been present in the environment but whose presence and significance are only now being elucidated.
"Emerging substances" can be defined as substances that have been detected in the environment, but which are currently not included in routine monitoring programmes at EU level and whose fate, behaviour and (eco)toxicological effects are not well understood (https://www.norman-network.com).
"Emerging pollutants" can be defined as pollutants that are currently not included in routine monitoring programmes at the European level and which may be candidates for future regulation, depending on research on their (eco)toxicity, potential health effects and public perception and on monitoring data regarding their occurrence in the various environmental compartments (https://www.norman-network.com).
Examples from the LIST OF EMERGING SUBSTANCES are surfactants, flame retardants, pharmaceuticals and personal care products, gazoline additives and their degradation products, biocides, polar pesticides and their degradation products and various proven or suspected endocrine disrupting compounds (EDCs). The NORMAN experts regularly revise the list of emerging substances. (https://www.norman-network.com)
Substance List Exchange (https://www.norman-network.com/nds/SLE/) allows NORMAN network members and other organizations to donate compounds, which are then combined in the Substance Database.
NORMAN systematically compiles statistics and information on the impacts and harmful qualities of these drugs in the EMPODAT database, where they are monitored. The NORMAN Prioritization Working Group uses this data to classify the compounds into action categories based on their urgency.
Up to present, NORMAN has developed and maintains several online databases of data/information on emerging pollutants in the environment. Of which, the lowest Predicted No-Effect Concentrations (PNEC) have been agreed by NORMAN experts.
NORMAN Ecotoxicology Database could be found at
NORMAN Ecotoxicology Database (norman-network.com)