GO GREENER WITH PASSIVE SAMPLER AND BEYOND

Thousands of chemicals are commercially produced throughout the world and the total number increases each year. Environmental monitoring is required to access their release to and exposure and effects in the environment. Traditional sampling approaches such as grab and automatic samplings are time/cost consuming and labour intensive. While passive sampling approach can save lot of time and cost in terms of giving a time weighed average (TWA) concentration. Herein we gave an introduction of passive sampler and briefly discussed the necessity of passive sampler and what information that passive sampler can offer. Then we concluded that passive sampling can be a greener way in environmental monitoring and should be paid more attention to particularly for the emerging pharmaceuticals and personal care products (PPCPs).