Principles for Environmental Exposure Assessment and Investigation Monitoring of Emerging Pollutants
The environmental monitoring of emerging pollutants involves multiple objectives such as identifying emerging pollutants,assessing environmental risks,and evaluating control effects.A scientific top-level design of monitoring plans helps to support the governance of emerging pollutants to the greatest extent.This study analyzes the requirements for emerging pollutants monitoring media,monitoring scale,monitoring data quality,and representativeness in the assessment of chemical substance environmental exposure.Combining with the review of environmental monitoring practices of developed countries,the top-level design ideas and monitoring method principles for emerging pollutants environmental monitoring are comprehensively proposed,mainly including:(1)Monitoring could be carried out from three levels:screening monitoring,evaluation monitoring,and supervisory monitoring,in order to locate the problem,assess the risk,and supervise the effect.(2)The evaluation monitoring should include activated sludge in waste water treat plant and surface water,sediment,atmosphere,soil and creatures surround the emission source.The evaluation monitoring should also meet the requirements of local environmental exposure assessment on monitoring data,and the monitoring report should contain enough information.