How Many Chemicals Have Been Identified in Environmental Media? A Progress Report

How Many Chemicals Have Been Identified in Environmental Media? A Progress Report.

Dr Derek Muir is an Emeritus Senior Scientist with Environment & Climate Change Canada’s Water Sciences and Technology Directorate in Burlington ON and holds adjunct positions in Canada at the School of Environmental Sciences, University of Guelph, and in the Dept of Chemistry at University of Toronto. He has led studies on sources, fate and bioaccumulation of persistent organic pollutants, chemicals of emerging concern, and mercury, in freshwater, marine, and terrestrial environments with a focus on the Arctic. He has also led studies screening industrial chemicals for persistence, bioaccumulation, and Arctic contamination potential. He is a SETAC Fellow and a Fellow of Canada’s national academy, the Royal Society of Canada. He is currently serving on an advisory committee of the Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water which is assessing chemicals under Australia’s Industrial Chemicals Environmental Management Standard.