Table Of ContentChemicals as Intentional and Accidental Global
Environmental Threats
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Series C:Environmental Security
Chemicals as Intentional and
Accidental Global Environmental
Threats
edited by
Lubomir Simeonov
Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia,
Bulgaria
and
Elisabeta Chirila
Ovidius State University, Constanta,
Romania
Published in cooperation with NATO Public Diplomacy Division
Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Study Institute on
Chemicals as Intentional and Accidental Global Environmental Threats
Borovetz, Bulgaria
16--27 November 2005
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Contents
Preface xi
Acknowledgements xiii
List of Contributors xv
Environmental Risk Assessment
Liviu-Daniel Galatchi 1
Sampling and Sample Pretreatment for Environmental Analysis
Elisabeta S. Chirila, Camelia Draghici, Simona Dobrinas 7
Lessons Learned from Industrial Chemical Accidents:
Italian and International Initiatives
Sara Visentin 29
Selection of Effective Technologies for Management
of Contaminated Lands
Thomas McHugh, John Connor 45
Europe as a Source of Pollution – The Main Factor
for the Eutrophication of the Danube Delta and Black Sea
Liviu-Daniel Galatchi, Marian Tudor 57
Effective Approaches for Modeling Ground Water
Load of Surface Applied Chemicals
Marnik Vanclooster 65
Fate of Chemicals in the Aquatic Environment
Bogdana Koumanova 93
Vulnerability, Resilience and Adaptation: Response
Mechanisms in an Environmental Emergency – The Asian
Tsunami in Thailand and Hurricane Katrina in the United States
Heike Schroeder, Dayna Yocum 105
v
vi
One Approach for Cognitive Assessment on Group of School
Children Exposed to Lead in the Community of Veles
Mihail Kochubovski 127
Ecological and Professional Chemical Dangers
for Reproductive Health
Olga Sivochalova, Eduard Denisov 137
Technological Transfer. Miniature Laser Mass Spectrometer
for Express Analysis of Environmental Samples
Lubomir Simeonov, Georgy Managadze 149
Incidental and Accidental Pollution in Italy
Michele Arienzo 163
Pesticides as Global Environmental Pollutants
Kosta Vassilev, Veska Kambourova 173
Regulatory use of Pesticide Concentrations in the Environment
in the EU
Jan Linders B.H.J. 193
Threats on the Seaside Lakes Water and Their Acute
and Long-Term Consequences
Liviu-Daniel Galatchi, Simona Dobrinas, Elisabeta Chirila 201
Evaluating Health Risks and Prioritising Response Actions
for Contaminated Lands
Thomas McHugh, John Connor 219
SAFEFOODNET: An Ongoing Project on Chemical Food Safety:
Network for Enlarging Europe
Marianna Elia, Angelo Moretto, Sara Visentin 237
Degradation of N-Nitrosodimethylamine (NDMA)
in Landscape Soils
Michele Arienzo, Jay Gan, Frederick Ernst, Stephen Qin,
Svetlana Bondarenko, David Sedlak 247
Pollutants Effects on Human body – Toxicological Approach
Gheorghe Coman, Camelia Draghici, Elisabeta Chirila,
Mihaela Sica 255
vii
The Use of Models for the Evaluation of Chemical Attenuation
in the Environment
Charles Newell, Thomas McHugh 267
Mechanism of the remediation (detoxification) of chemicals
(pesticide, heavy metals, other toxic chemical compounds)
Youseff Zeroual, Mohamed Blaghen 271
Environmental Protection and Public Health Projects.
Educational and Training Programs
Camelia Draghici 281
Planning and Execution of a Pilot Phytoremediation Experiment
Biana Simeonova, Lubomir Simeonov 297
Determination of protein complexed paralytic shellfish poisoning.
Mechanism of the remediation (detoxification) of chemicals
(pesticide, heavy metals, other toxic chemical compounds)
Nadia Takati, Driss Mountassif, Hamid Taleb, Mohamed Blaghen 303
European Institutions for Controlling Chemical Air Pollution:
An Analysis of CLRTAP-European Union Interplay
Heike Schroeder, Dayna Yocum 321
Development of a Pesticides Biosensor Using Carbon-Based
Electrode Systems
Adina Arvinte, Lucian Rotariu, Camelia Bala 337
Study of the Content of Chemicals in Landfill Leachate
Andreana Maximova, Bogdana Koumanova 345
Aspects of Eutrophication as a Chemical Pollution with
Implications on Marine Biota at the Romanian Black Sea Shore
Alice Sburlea, Laura Boicenco, Adriana Cociasu 357
Investigation of the Constanta Surface Water’s Pollution Sources
Alina Coman, Elisabeta Chirila, Ionela Popovici Carazeanu 361
The Potential Use of Festuca Cultivars and Lignite for
phytostabilization of Heavy Metal Polluted Soils
Jacek Krzyżak, Tyler Lane, Anna Czerwińska 367
viii
Development of Analytical Method for Determination of PCBs in
Soil by Gas Chromatography with Electron-Capture detector
Anna Dimitrova, Teodor Stoichev, Tomislav Rizov, Anastasiya
Kolarska, Nikolay Rizov, Alexandar Spasov 375
Method for the determination of Some Selected Steroid
Hormones and Bisphenol A in Water at Low ng/l Level
by On-line Solid-Phase Extraction Combined with Liquid
Chromatography-Tandem Mass Spectrometry
Borislav Lazarov, J.A. van Leerdam 379
Evaluation of Biocide – Free Antifouling Systems
Lucica Barbes 393
Removal of Dissolved Organic Compounds by Granular
Activated Carbon
Bernd Schreiber, Diana Wald, Viktor Schmalz, Eckhard Worch 397
External and Internal Exposure to Carbon Disulfide
at the Working Place
Christina Kopcheva, Teodor Panev, Tzveta Georgieva,
Vidka Nikolova, Todor Popov 401
Accumulation of Copper, Cadmium, Iron, Magnesium and Zink
in Three Development Stages of Red Pepper
Simona Dobrinas, Semaghiul Birghila, Marius Belc 409
Determination of Organochlorine and Polycyclic Aromatic
Hydrocarbons Pesticides in Honey From Different Regions
in Romania
Simona Dobrinas, Semaghiul Birghila, Valentina Coatu 413
Evaluation of the Women Fertility Health and the Environment.
Nickel Exposure in Industry
Elena Makarova-Zemlyanskaya, Ludmila Dueva, Marina Fesenko 417
Study on the Influence of Vegetation on the Quality
of Aquatic Systems
Silviya Lavrova, Bogdana Koumanova 421
ix
Heavy Metals Concentrations in Aquatic Environment and Living
Organisms in the Danube Delta, Romania
Mihaela-Iuliana Tudor, Marian Tudor, Cristina David, Liliana
Teodorof, Dana Tudor, Orhan Ibram 435
Determination of Cyanides from Distilled Alcoholic Drinks
Semaghiul Birghila, Naliana Lupascu 443
The Quality of the Drinking Water – the Main Factor
into the Socio-Hygienic Monitoring
Grigore Friptuleac, Sergiu Cebanu, Vladimir Bernic 447
Detection of Heavy Metals and Organic Pollutants
from Black Sea Marine Organisms
Gabriela Stanciu , Simona Lupşor 451
Methylmercury in Surface Sediments in Coastal Environments.
Comparison Between a Dynamic Macrotidal Estuary
and a Microtidal Lagoon
Teodor Stoichev, David Amouroux, Olivier F.X. Donard,
Christo Daiev 455
A Quick and Easy Retrieval of Information on Pesticide Toxicity
to Humans and Environment: PESTIDOC
Francesca Vellere, Teresa Mammone, Romilde Basla
and Claudio Colosio 459
Study of Biofilm Formation on Different Pipe Materials in a
Model of Drinking Water Distribution System and its Impact
on Microbiological Water Quality
Zvezdimira Tsvetanova 463
Modeling the transport and fate of Contaminants
in the environment: soil, water and air
Maria De Lurdes Dinis, António Fiúza 469
Equilibrium studies of Pb(II), Zn(II) and Cd(II)
ions onto granular activated carbon and natural zeolite
Mirko Marinkovski, Liljana Markovska, Vera Meshko 477
Nitrate Pollution of the Lesnovska River Caused by Filtration
of Chemicals by Agricultural Areas
Svetlana Bozhinova, Grigor Velkovski 487
