Quality Targets for Active Ingredients of Pesticides to Protect Inland Surface Waters | Umweltbundesamt

Quality targets are reference values and guidelines with regard to a particular protected asset and serve as a benchmark for the quality of surface waters. After quality targets had previously been determined for 28 industrial chemcials and 7 heavy metals, this new publication now describes the derivation of quality targets for 35 active ingredients of pesticides with regard to aquatic communities, a particular protected asset.