title: The Jülich Environmental Specimen Bank.
abstract: The environmental specimen bank of the Federal Republic of Germany represents the modern form of a systematically designed archive for the preservative storage of selected environmental specimens. Major aims of environmental specimen banks are: (i) retrospective identification and quantification of environmental chemicals including those not known at the time of storage; (ii) retrospective replicate analysis of samples stored under preservative conditions for the determination of inorganic elements or organic compounds already examined; and (iii) retrospective control of the success of legislative environmental protection measures in handling chemicals regarded as hazardous for man and the environment. Results of the environmental specimen bank at Jülich by the Institute of Applied Physical Chemistry, Research Centre Jülich, KFA, obtaining the initiated legislative regulations providing environmental pollution, are already proved for various compartments.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Applied Physical Chemistry, Research Centre Jülich, KFA, Germany.
authors.forename: J D
authors.initials: JD
authors.lastname: Schladot
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Stoeppler
authors.forename: M J
authors.initials: MJ
authors.lastname: Schwuger
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D004784:Environmental Monitoring; D004787:Environmental Pollution / Q000032:analysis / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence / Q000517:prevention & control*; D005858:Germany; D006801:Humans; D010944:Plants; D013048:Specimen Handling; D014015:Tissue Banks / Q000458:organization & administration*; D014021:Tissue Preservation