Sponsor
BMBF Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (FKZ 02WRS1279E)
Project execution organisation: Karlsruhe Institute for Technology (KIT)
Realisation
Water Technology Centre (TZW), Karlsruhe, Dr. Frank Sacher, Dipl.-Geoökol. Astrid Thoma (Project management)
Blücher GmbH, Deukum GmbH, GELSENWASSER AG, Hydrotox GmbH, Institut für Photonische Technologien e.V., Institut für Wasserforschung GmbH (IfW), regioWASSER e. V., RheinEnergie AG, Ruhr-Forschungsinstitut für Innovations- und Strukturpolitik (RUFIS), Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Abt. für Hygiene, Sozial- und Umweltmedizin (RUB), Universität Bayreuth (Z-MNU), badenova AG & Co. KG, Hessenwasser GmbH & Co. KG, Landestalsperrenverwaltung des Freistaates Sachsen, Verbund-Wasserwerk Witten GmbH (VWW), Wasserwerke Westfalen GmbH, Zweckverband Bodensee-Wasserversorgung (BWV).
Project duration
November 2011 - November 2014
Summary
PRiMaT is promoted as a sub-project of the BMBF project on “Risk assessment of new pollutants and pathogens in the water cycle” (RiSKWa).
In the PRiMaT project 18 partners from water supply, industry, science and consumer initiatives work together on the development of a holistic and process-based risk assessment of trace substances and pathogens from the perspective of the drinking water supply.
The goal of this project is to safeguard drinking water supply by a hazard-based risk management for anthropogenic trace substances. The project shall contribute directly to the concretization of the technical note W 1001 (DVGW), which is the basis for risk- and process-based management of the drinking water supply.
The purpose is to elaborate specific support for the management of typical risks, which result from evidence and presence of new trace substances and pathogens.
Hydrotox is implementing a part of the work package “Biological test methods for toxicological assessment of transformation products”. Purpose of this accompanying project is to identify transformation products, which are formed by ozonation and soil passage. Effect-based analytical methods are used to characterise their toxicological potential. The objective of Hydrotox is the implementation of high-value genotoxicity studies with native and enriched water samples. As test systems the micronucleus test (ISO guideline 21427) and the alkaline comet assay with the cell line V-79 (chinese hamster lung cells) are performed.
Further information
Detailed information is available on the website of the PRiMaT-Project
Contact person at Hydrotox GmbH
Dr. Stefan Gartiser
Gartiser(at)hydrotox.de
Tel: +49-(0)761-45512-24