Determination of polar pharmaceuticals in sewage water of Greece by gas chromatography-mass spectrometry

Chemosphere

Volumn 51, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 69-75

  Koutsouba, V ^a   Heberer, Th ^b   Fuhrmann, B ^b   Schmidt Baumler, K ^b   Tsipi, D ^a   Hiskia, A ^c  

^a General Chemical State Laboratory   (Greece)

^b TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^c INSTITUTE OF NANOSCIENCE AND NANOTECHNOLOGY   (Greece)

Author keywords

Diclofenac; Drug residues; New environmental contaminants

Indexed keywords

GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; METABOLITES; SEWAGE; WASTEWATER;

POLAR PHARMACEUTICALS;

DRUG PRODUCTS;

ANALGESIC AGENT; ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; BENZYL DERIVATIVE; CLOFIBRATE; CLOFIBRIC ACID; DICLOFENAC; DRUG METABOLITE; IBUPROFEN; PENTAFLUOROBENZYL BROMIDE; PHENAZONE; PROPYPHENAZONE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

SEWAGE;

ARTICLE; DRUG DETERMINATION; DRUG STRUCTURE; EFFLUENT; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; GREECE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; SEWAGE; SOLID PHASE EXTRACTION; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 0242432390     PISSN: 00456535     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0045-6535(02)00819-6     Document Type: Article

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