Occurrence of pharmaceutical contaminants and screening of treatment alternatives for southeastern Louisiana

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 948, Issue , 2001, Pages 80-89

  Boyd, Glen R ^a   Grimm, Deborah A ^a  

^a TULANE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Activated carbon adsorption; Drinking water; Endocrine disrupting chemicals; Lake Pontchartrain; Mississippi River; Pharmaceutical and personal care products; Pharmaceutically active compounds; Treatment processes

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATED CARBON; CLOFIBRIC ACID; ESTRONE; NAPROXEN; RUNOFF;

CONFERENCE PAPER; DERIVATIZATION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MASS SPECTROMETRY; SCREENING; SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT; SOLID PHASE EXTRACTION; UNITED STATES; WATER POLLUTION; WATER TREATMENT;

EID: 0035678102     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2001.tb03989.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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