Input/output balance of estrogenic active compounds in a major municipal sewage plant in Germany

Chemosphere

Volumn 40, Issue 9-11, 2000, Pages 1131-1142

  Körner, Wolfgang ^a   Bolz, Ulrike ^a   Süßmuth, Wolfgang ^b   Hiller, Georg ^b   Schuller, Winfried ^c   Hanf, Volker ^c   Hagenmaier, Hanspaul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b Reinzstr 1 D 89233   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ULM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Alkylphenols; E screen; Estradiol equivalent concentrations; Phenolic xenoestrogens; Sewage; Sludge

Indexed keywords

ALKYLPHENOL; PHENOL DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; ESTROGEN ACTIVITY; GERMANY; SEWAGE; SLUDGE;

BIPHENYL COMPOUNDS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CELL DIVISION; ESTRADIOL; ESTROGENS; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY-MASS SPECTROMETRY; GERMANY; HUMANS; PHENOLS; SEWAGE; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

EID: 0042613703     PISSN: 00456535     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0045-6535(99)00362-8     Document Type: Article

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