Activities in the area of wastewater analysis
News
Latest news
- Announcement of three meetings hosted in Lisbon on the topic of drugs and wastewater (December 2012)
- Wastewater analysis – EMCDDA launches new multicity project (January 2012)
- Wastewater analysis, an emerging science (January 2011)
- In aqua veritas? Illicit drugs in wastewater (January 2009)
- Wastewater analysis, a promising prospect for drug monitoring, says EMCDDA (December 2008)
- First European meeting on drugs and their metabolites in waste water (April 2007)
Publications and studies
Below you can find some key products and outputs in this area of activity.
Events and meetings
Below you can find links to related events and meetings.
Testing the waters: first international multidisciplinary conference on detecting illicit drugs in wastewater
06-8 May 2013
Chair: Paul Griffiths, EMCDDA
Co-chaired by:
Kevin Thomas, Norwegian Institute for Water Research, Oslo, Norway
Sara Castiglioni, Mario Negri Institute, Milan, Italy
Barbara Kasprzyk-Hordern (SEWPROF-coordinator)
in collaboration with the SEWPROF - project
The conference will review the ‘state of the art’ in this emerging discipline, providing an opportunity to present latest research findings, methodological developments and new applications. This multidisciplinary event will bring together for the first time international experts working in relevant fields which include: drug epidemiology, pharmacokinetics, statistics, forensic science, analytical chemistry and environmental engineering. More...
EMCDDA hosting three meetings in Lisbon on the topic of drugs and wastewater
December 2012
On 10 December, the results of the EMCDDA multicity project were presented by an international consortium of researchers. The project, launched in January 2012, generated comparable data covering 26 European cities, thanks to an agreed common sampling approach. The results will soon be made available on this website.
On 11 and 12 December, the EMCDDA, in collaboration with the Norwegian Institute for Water Research and the Research Council of Norway, held a workshop on determining illicit drug use in populations through wastewater biomarker analysis .
Finally, the SEWPROF research project funded by the European Commission, organised its kick-off meeting on 13 December. The SEWPROF project aims to develop inter-disciplinary research capability for the next generation of scientists working in the newly-emerging field of sewage epidemiology. The EMCDDA is an associated partner.
Kick-off meeting EMCDDA Demonstration project
19 January 2012
Wastewater analysis – EMCDDA launches new multicity project (January 2012)
EMCDDA meeting on wastewater analysis
28 January 2011, Lisbon
- Agenda (PDF)
- List of participants (PDF)
- Review and mapping of the current EU situation with regard to wastewater analysis and drugs – Alexander van Nuijs, University of Antwerp, Belgium (PDF)
- Estimating community drug use – Ettore Zuccato, Mario Negri Institute for Pharmacological Research, Italy (PDF)
- Developing an annual estimate of community excretion of drugs – preliminary findings from the northwest region of the US – Caleb Banta Green, University of Washington, USA (PDF)
- Towards estimating the uncertainty of wastewater-based consumption estimates of illicit drugs – Jörg Rieckermann and Christoph Ort, Eawag — aquatic research, Switzerland (PDF)
- Detecting and monitoring new psychoactive substances in wastewater – John Ramsey, University of London, United Kingdom (PDF)
- The potential of wastewater analysis for monitoring illicit drugs, in combination with other drug monitoring approaches – Tibor Brunt, Trimbos-instituut, Netherlands (PDF)
