Water quality and concentration of alkylphenols in rivers used as source of drinking water and flowing through urban areas

Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 17-24

  Watanabe, Masafumi ^a   Takano, Takehito ^a   Nakamura, Keiko ^a   Watanabe, Sumiko ^a   Seino, Kaoruko ^a  

^a TOKYO MEDICAL AND DENTAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Nonylphenol; Octylphenol; River; Sewerage system; Urban area

Indexed keywords

4 TERT OCTYLPHENOL; ALKYLPHENOL; DRINKING WATER; NONYLPHENOL; RIVER WATER;

ARTICLE; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; JAPAN; MASS SPECTROMETRY; URBAN AREA; WATER ANALYSIS; WATER QUALITY;

EID: 33847370874     PISSN: 1342078X     EISSN: 13474715     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1265/ehpm.12.17     Document Type: Article

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