Every year in March a new Quasimeme brochure is available for the coming year starting in June. Participants are requested to fill out their subscription form before 15 May to ensure we can sent the fist set of materials on time.
The brochure of Quasimeme year 13 June 2008 - May 2009 can be downloaded here
New for 2008 – 2009
More compounds from Water Framework Directive (WFD) list in the Quasimeme scheme.
Following the Water Framework Directive of the European Parliament and of the council on environmental quality standards in the field of water policy,
the Quasimeme project office decided to add more determinands into the Laboratory Performance Study Program.
Pentabromodiphenylether, pentachlorobenzene, aldrin, endrin, and isodrin are added to the organochlorine exercise (AQ-5) and as a result the name of this determinand group is changed into halogenated organics.
Dichloromethane and trichloromethane are both added to the volatile organochlorine group (AQ-6).
The exercise AQ-7 (pentachlorophenol) will be offered again in the new program.
Alachlor, chlorpyrifos and isoproturon will be added to the AQ-8 exercise.
Organotins in seawater was already changed from a development exercise into a regular exercise (AQ-12), on request of the participants of the Roskilde workshop (March 2006).
For PAHs a new exercise will be started (AQ-13) .
For alkylphenols in water and sediment development exercises will be started (DE-11 and DE-12, respectively).
Finally, a development exercise will be started on passive sampling (DE-13).
Sediment and biota
The development exercise for organotins in sediment (DE-7) and in biota (DE-3) are both changed into regular exercises on request of the participants of the Roskilde workshop (March 2006)(MS-6 and BT-8 respectively).
Low salinity water
In both rounds for AQ-2 (round 50 & 52) low salinity water collected from the Baltic sea will be used in stead of simulating low salinity water by diluting seawater from e.g. the North Sea with demineralised water.