Fate and Effects of Little Investigated Scents in the Aquatic Environment
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Xenobiotics in the Urban Water Cycle: Mass Flows, Environmental Processes, Mitigation and Treatment Strategies. ed. / Despo Fatta-Kassinos; Kai Bester; Klaus Kümmerer. 1. ed. Dordrecht: Springer, 2010. p. 87-100 (Environmental pollution; Vol. 16).
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T1 - Fate and Effects of Little Investigated Scents in the Aquatic Environment
AU - Bolek, Richard
AU - Kümmerer, Klaus
N1 - 16;16
PY - 2010
Y1 - 2010
N2 - The sense of smell is our most emotional sense. Although not always being aware of it, it plays an important role in our everyday live. Scents are widely used in Personal Care Products (PCPs) such as shampoo, washing lotions or make up. They give a pleasant smell, mask unpleasant scents and may even bind consumers to a specific brand. As a result, scents are being applied more and more and in turn are being introduced in increasing volumes into the environment. Their fate and effect in the environment are to date mostly unclear. Because many organisms rely on scents as means of communication, the emerging amount of scents emitted by our civilization can cause disturbances, known as "infochemical effect".In this chapter, we give a short overview on the current usage and regulation of scents for Europe and the United States of America and possible risks of the introduction into the environment. For the University Medical Center Freiburg, we calculated the amount of used scents for the year 2006 from manufacturers' information and give examples for used scents which also act as infochemicals
AB - The sense of smell is our most emotional sense. Although not always being aware of it, it plays an important role in our everyday live. Scents are widely used in Personal Care Products (PCPs) such as shampoo, washing lotions or make up. They give a pleasant smell, mask unpleasant scents and may even bind consumers to a specific brand. As a result, scents are being applied more and more and in turn are being introduced in increasing volumes into the environment. Their fate and effect in the environment are to date mostly unclear. Because many organisms rely on scents as means of communication, the emerging amount of scents emitted by our civilization can cause disturbances, known as "infochemical effect".In this chapter, we give a short overview on the current usage and regulation of scents for Europe and the United States of America and possible risks of the introduction into the environment. For the University Medical Center Freiburg, we calculated the amount of used scents for the year 2006 from manufacturers' information and give examples for used scents which also act as infochemicals
KW - Chemistry
KW - fate
KW - effects
KW - effect
KW - Scents
KW - aquatic
KW - aquatic environment
KW - ENVIRONMENT
KW - sense of smell
KW - IT
KW - Personal
KW - PERSONAL CARE PRODUCTS
KW - PRODUCTS
KW - PRODUCT
KW - ORGANISMS
KW - cause
KW - regulation
KW - Europe
KW - UNITED-STATES
KW - STATES
KW - STATE
KW - risk
KW - University
KW - 2006
KW - Information
KW - xenobiotics
KW - urban
KW - WATER
KW - environmental
KW - treatment
KW - STRATEGIES
KW - STRATEGY
KW - environmental pollution
KW - POLLUTION
KW - fate
KW - STRATEGIES
KW - environmental pollution
KW - treatment
KW - environmental
KW - urban
KW - xenobiotics
KW - Information
KW - University
KW - risk
KW - UNITED-STATES
KW - Europe
KW - regulation
KW - effects
KW - cause
KW - ORGANISMS
KW - PERSONAL CARE PRODUCTS
KW - Personal
KW - Scents
KW - aquatic
KW - aquatic environment
KW - sense of smell
KW - IT
UR - https://www.mendeley.com/catalogue/4df8b78e-add0-3798-85b9-3becc7f622a8/
U2 - 10.1007/978-90-481-3509-7_5
DO - 10.1007/978-90-481-3509-7_5
M3 - Contributions to collected editions/anthologies
SN - 978-90-481-3508-0
T3 - Environmental pollution
SP - 87
EP - 100
BT - Xenobiotics in the Urban Water Cycle
A2 - Fatta-Kassinos, Despo
A2 - Bester, Kai
A2 - Kümmerer, Klaus
PB - Springer
CY - Dordrecht
ER -