Occurrence and reductions of pharmaceuticals and personal care products and estrogens by municipal wastewater treatment plants in Ontario, Canada

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 367, Issue 2-3, 2006, Pages 544-558

  Lishman, Lori ^a   Smyth, Shirley Anne ^a   Sarafin, Kurtis ^a   Kleywegt, Sonya ^b   Toito, John ^a   Peart, Thomas ^a   Lee, Bill ^a   Servos, Mark ^c   Beland, Michel ^a   Seto, Peter ^a  

^a ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

^b Ontario Ministry of Education   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Estrogens; Municipal wastewater; Musks; Pharmaceuticals

Indexed keywords

ESTROGENS; MUNICIPAL WASTEWATER; MUSKS;

DATABASE SYSTEMS; POLYMERS; THERMAL EFFECTS; WATER TREATMENT PLANTS;

DRUG PRODUCTS;

ACID; CLOFIBRIC ACID; DICLOFENAC; ESTRADIOL; ESTROGEN; ESTRONE; FENOFIBRATE; FENOPROFEN; GEMFIBROZIL; IBUPROFEN; INDOMETACIN; KETOPROFEN; MUSK; NAPROXEN; SALICYLIC ACID; TRICLOSAN;

ANTHROPOGENIC SOURCE; CHEMICAL POLLUTANT; DATABASE; DRUG; TOXICITY; WASTEWATER;

ACIDITY; ACTIVATED SLUDGE; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; CANADA; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; DATA BASE; EFFLUENT; EUROPE; EXTRACTION; FILTRATION; LAGOON; MEASUREMENT; METABOLITE; PH MEASUREMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIVER; TEMPERATURE; TOXICITY; WASTE WATER MANAGEMENT;

COSMETICS; DRUG RESIDUES; ESTROGENS; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY-MASS SPECTROMETRY; ONTARIO; WASTE DISPOSAL, FLUID; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; WATER PURIFICATION;

CANADA; NORTH AMERICA; ONTARIO; THAMES RIVER [ONTARIO];

EID: 33746346155     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2006.03.021     Document Type: Article

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