Toxicity evaluation of wastewater from the pharmaceutical industry to aquatic organisms

Water Science and Technology

Volumn 39, Issue 10-11, 1999, Pages 71-76

  Tišler, Tatjana ^a   Zagorc Končan, Jana ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHEMISTRY   (Slovenia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Acute toxicity; Chronic toxicity; Daphnia magna; Luminescence; Pharmaceutical industry; Vibrio fischeri; Wastewater

Indexed keywords

ACUTE TOXICITY; CHRONIC TOXICITY; TOXICITY TESTS;

BACTERIA; DRUG PRODUCTS PLANTS; LUMINESCENCE; SEWAGE ANALYSIS; TOXICITY; ZINC;

WASTEWATER;

INDUSTRIAL EFFLUENT;

ACUTE TOXICITY; CHRONIC TOXICITY; CONFERENCE PAPER; DAPHNIA; DRUG INDUSTRY; LUMINESCENCE; NONHUMAN; TOXICITY TESTING; VIBRIO FISCHERI;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); DAPHNIA; DAPHNIA MAGNA; DAPHNIIDAE; PHOTOBACTERIUM; VIBRIO FISCHERI;

EID: 2342668560     PISSN: 02731223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0273-1223(99)00255-3     Document Type: Conference Paper

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