Updated 2000-06-15
The aim of the project is to develop a method for chemical analysis of brominated flame retardants in marine biota. Furthermore their will be a litterature study of the concentrations of brominated flame retardants in the Arctic.
This is a National Implementation Plan (NIP) project
Time frame
- Status
- Ongoing
- Project time span
- 1999 -
- Data collection
- 1999 -
- Data processing
- 1999 -
- Data reporting
- 1999 -
Data availability
- Are data archived or planned to be archived at an AMAP Thematic Data Centre?
- no
- If no (or only part of data are reported to a TDC), where and how are (other) data stored?
- The data will be available for AMAP.
- References to key publications (or planned publications) and data reports
- Planned publication on the concentration of brominated flame retardants in eggs from Black
Guillimot from the east- and west coast of Greenland.
- Samples/specimens archived in specimen banks?
- No
Methods & Procedures
- Procedures and methodology used for, e.g., sampling and sample storage, sample pretreatment, extraction and analysis, including which laboratories are involved, references to methods employed, etc.
Soxlet exstraction, gas chromatography negative chemical ionisation mass spectroscopy. National Environmantal Research Institute - Denmark.
Additional Information
- Is this a bi- AND multi-lateral project (i.e. a project involving cooperation between different countries)?
- No