Simplified Monitoring Technologies for Chemicals
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@Simplified Monitoring Technologies for Chemicals targeted in the ETV Project are technologies to perform, in a simpler manner than usual methods, measurement of chemicals for which no official methods have been defined among chemicals existing in environments. These technologies have characteristics such as easiness of operation and management, and enhanced sensitivity for determination. Their applications to screening, monitoring of abnormal values by a simple method, etc., are expected.
Management of Chemicals using Simplified Monitoring Technologies
- Activities for reducing environmental risks caused by chemicals and for risk communication are now being performed in full swing. For example, the amounts of 354 kinds of target chemicals emitted into the air, public water areas, etc., from about 35 thousands enterprises in Japan have been made public / disclosed since March 2003 based on the PRTR (Pollutant Release and Transfer Register) system. Under this circumstance, it is required for various entities and individuals such as governments (the national government and local governments), enterprises and general citizens, to grasp states of existence of chemicals in various places such as exhaust ports and generic environments.
- The advantages of simplified monitoring technologies are as follows: the efficiency of monitoring can be enhanced utilizing, at the screening stage, basic information to appropriately set the location and timing of analysis using high accuracy equipment; many substances can be measured at the same time and continuously; and risk information can be grasped earlier for give warning by using the monitoring for detection of abnormal values near production facilities. In addition, because operation and management are easier compared with highly accurate equipment such as GC/MS, measurement can be performed at simpler facilities. Under the circumstance where the amounts of emissions of chemicals have been made public / disclosed in particular by the PRTR system and there is growing awareness of general citizens and companies about it, it is expected that measurement data on the concentrations of chemicals in environments acquired by simplified measurement technologies will be utilized in various areas, and risk communication will be further promoted.