The Swedish Environmental Specimen Bank with reference to the National Contaminant Monitoring Programme in Sweden.
The environmental Specimen Bank (ESB) at the Swedish Museum of Natural History constitutes the base for the National Contaminant Monitoring Programme in Sweden. This is a part of the Swedish Environmental Monitoring Programme (PMK). Since the beginning of the 1960s more than 120,000 organisms have been collected and stored in the Swedish ESB. The present PMK-programme started in 1978 under the authority of the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency. The present paper gives a brief presentation of main types of material and species annually collected for storage in the Swedish ESB, with special reference to the Contaminant Monitoring Programme.
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Swedish Museum of Natural History, Contaminant Monitoring Group, Stockholm.
D000818:Animals; D000835:Animals, Wild; D004784:Environmental Monitoring; D004787:Environmental Pollution / Q000032:analysis*; D005399:Fishes; D005618:Fresh Water; D006077:Government Agencies; D008322:Mammals; D009144:Museums; D010575:Pesticides / Q000633:toxicity; D012623:Seawater; D013048:Specimen Handling; D013548:Sweden; D014015:Tissue Banks / Q000458:organization & administration*
D010575:Pesticides