Contaminants of emerging concern: An integrated approach for assessing impacts on the marine environment

Project Information

CONTRAST

Grant agreement ID: 101135037

DOI

10.3030/101135037

EC signature date 10 November 2023

Start date 1 January 2024

End date 31 December 2027

Funded under

• Food, Bioeconomy Natural Resources, Agriculture and Environment

Total cost

€ 5 249 178,75

EU contribution

€ 5 249 178,75

Coordinated by

NORSK INSTITUTT FOR VANNFORSKNING STI
Norway

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Deliverables

Documents, reports (7)

Proficiency report for biomarker analysis between European Laboratories

Report to the laboratories on the results of the proficiency test for the biomarker analysis and the performance of the participating laboratories during the test.

Optimised method for proteomics analysis

Production of a Standard Operating Procedure (SOP), which will describe the optimised approach for the application of proteomics-based biodiversity assessment in marine ecosystems.

Case study 1. Relationship between chemical contaminants in European coastal sediments and benthic diversity

Reporting of the results of the sampling campaigns connected to the case study 1. Relationship between chemical contaminants in European coastal sediments and benthic diversity, connected with Traversing European Coastlines (TREC) project.

Biological effects guidelines for contaminants of emerging concern in the marine environment

Guidelines describing optimised and/or new methodologies for measuring the biological effects of contaminants of emerging concern (CECs) as part of a recommended approach for biological effects monitoring and toxicity assessment in the marine environment.

Initial Dissemination, Exploitation and Communication plan (DECP)

Initial Dissemination, Exploitation and Communication Plan (DECP) with detailed information on dissemination, exploitation and communication activities planned during the project, how they will be implemented and how they will contribute to maximise the project impact, as well as progress reports.

Optimised method for environmental DNA (eDNA) analysis

Production of a Standard Operating Procedure (SOP), which will describe the optimised approach for eDNA analysis to identify bacteria and meiofauna marine sediment communities.

Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) for biological and chemical sampling

Optimised Standard operating procedures (SOP) for sampling harmonisation of biological tissue from marine organisms for selected biological and chemical analysis

Websites, patent fillings, videos etc. (2)

CONTRAST Website

Webpage of the project

Educational website: A New Formula

Webpage with education tools aimed at the general public. To inform the general public and particularly the younger generation on the potential dangers of chemicals in the home and the environment and advise on simple ways to reduce the use of toxic chemicals.

Data Management Plan (1)

Initial Data Management Plan

Initial description of the expected data, storage, management and sharing strategy, following the FAIR principle and accounting for the activities planned for the project.

Demonstrators, pilots, prototypes (2)

Contaminants of emerging concern (CECs) transformation model code

The deliverable will be the source code documentation that will be shared through Github. This source code is used from the transformation model applied to the model the transport and fate of CECs as stated in the table.

Chemical prioritisation scheme

Add-on tool on existing contaminants of emerging concern (CECs) prioritisation scheme. This will be a parameterised box model to predict the fate of selected CECs in the marine environment.

Data sets, microdata, etc (1)

Contaminants of emerging concern (CECs) priority list

This will be a dataset containing a large suspect screening library, which will cover a wide range of relevant contaminants of emerging concern (CECs) and their transformation products.

Publications

Peer reviewed articles (3)

Integrative oxidative stress biomarkers in gills and digestive gland of the combined exposure to citalopram and bezafibrate with polyethylene microplastics on mussels Mytilus galloprovincialis

Author(s): M.M. García-Pimentel, M. Mezzelani, N.J. Valdés, M.E. Giuliani, S. Gorbi, F. Regoli, V.M. León, J.A. Campillo
Published in: Environmental Pollution, Issue 366, 2025, ISSN 0269-7491
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/J.ENVPOL.2024.125508

Environmental Research

Author(s): M.M. García-Pimentel, V. Moltó , B. Fernández-Galindo , J.A. Campillo , V.M. León
Published in: Environmental Research, Issue 280, ISSN 0013-9351
Publisher: Elsevier
DOI: 10.1016/J.ENVRES.2025.121887

CONTRAST prioritisation tool: filtering and ranking contaminants of emerging concern in the marine environment using hazard-based approaches

Author(s): Putu Yolanda Yulikayani, Bavo De Witte, Aasim Ali, Jon Barber, Juan Bellas, Nicolas Briant, Steven Brooks, Are Sæle Bruvold, Megan Anne French, Ketil Hylland, Helen Kaberi, Víctor M. León, Samantha
Published in: Environmental Sciences Europe, Issue 37, 2025, ISSN 2190-4715
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
DOI: 10.1186/S12302-025-01257-9