In the beginning of the year I have joined Agroscope, the Swiss competence center for research in agriculture, the food economy and the environment. There, I have joined the group evaluating effects and impacts of pesticides which is located in Wädenswil. After working formally on my own in the last …

Degradation kinetics

Evaluation of degradation study data:

• OECD 307: aerobic or anaerobic soil
• OECD 308: water/sediment
• OECD 309: surface water
• field dissipation trials
• Various phys-chem studies like aqueous photolysis and hydrolysis

according to FOCUS kinetics and the EFSA guidance on deriving a soil matrix DegT50.

Bioaccumulation kinetics

Kinetic method …

Upon finishing some projects, I found the time to update this web server (from Debian wheezy to Debian jessie) and to give the web site a new design.

And after the start of the new year, the translation of the site to German is completed as well.

With great pleasure I am introducing my new company in this little weblog posting. The company is simply called “Johannes Ranke, wissenschaftlicher Berater”. This means I am running a one-man scientific consulting company. Continuing from my activities at the University of Bremen, at Harlan Laboratories and most recently at Eurofins …