Ocean plastics could be splintered into a soup of chemicals by sunlight
Plastic floating on the ocean is probably a constant source of chemical pollutants according to new research done at the Department of Environmental Science and Analytical Chemistry (ACES). By building a novel “weathering wheel” ACES researchers were able to rapidly age plastic and identify chemicals that will enter ocean water. The study opens the door to better characterize the risks …
Thesis about aerosols awarded as the best of 2017
Jana Johansson, postdoc at the Department of Environmental Science and Analytical Chemistry (ACES), has received the Early Career Scientists’ aerosologist award for the best thesis of 2017. Jana Johansson works within the field of contaminant chemistry and in her research she focuses on perfluorinated alkyl acids (PFAAs), chemicals that have been detected even in remote areas such as the Arctic, …
The Swedish government is investigating the cocktail effect of chemicals
The government has appointed Christina Rudén, Professor of Regulatory Toxicology and Ecotoxicology at the Department of Environmental Sciences and Analytical Chemistry (ACES), as a special investigator in an investigation, which will propose strategies for taking into account the cocktail effect in legislation regulating chemicals. The cocktail effect means that chemical substances can exacerbate each other’s dangerous effects and the government …
