Environmental analysis
Wageningen Food Safety Research is able to demonstrate the presence of contaminants in our water, soil and manure. We conduct the identification and quantification of these substances using validated methods of chemical analysis.
Contaminants
Various contaminants that have been introduced by industry, agriculture and households are present in water, soil and manure. In this regard, consider chemical substances, such as pesticides/herbicides/fungicides, (animal) medications, hormones, fire-retardants, residues from drugs laboratories etc.
Independent
Wageningen Food Safety Research is an independent research institute that is part of Wageningen University & Research. We have in house the knowledge and expertise to show the presence of contaminants at extremely low concentrations.
Analysis techniques
The analysis techniques that we use to demonstrate the presence of substances in water, soil and manure include: GC-ECD, PTV-GC-MS, GC-MS/MS and LC-MS/MS.
The substance categories that Wageningen Food Safety Research is able to analyse are listed below:
- animal medications
- pesticides
- anti-parasite agents
- hormones
- perfluorinated compounds
- fycotoxines
- opiaten
- nanoparticles
Publications
Publications
- Evaluation of attenuation of pharmaceuticals, toxic potency, and antibiotic resistance genes in constructed wetlands treating wastewater effluents (2018)
- The persistence of a broad range of antibiotics during calve, pig and broiler manure storage (2018)
- Uptake of oxytetracycline, sulfamethoxazole and ketoconazole from fertilised soils by plants
- Prevalence of antibiotics and antibiotic resistance genes in a wastewater effluent receiving river in the Netherlands (2018)
- A new extraction procedure to abate the burden of non extractable antibiotic residues in manure (2019)
- Global monitoring of antimicrobial resistance based on metagenomics analysis of urban sewage (2019)