Pharmaceutical contamination in residential, industrial, and agricultural waste streams: Risk to aqueous environments in Taiwan

Chemosphere

Volumn 74, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 131-141

  Lin, Angela Yu Chen ^a   Yu, Tsung Hsien ^a   Lin, Cheng Fang ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Antibiotics; Aquacultures; Ecotoxicity; Hospitals; Pharmaceuticals; Wastewaters

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL WASTES; AGRICULTURE; ANTIBIOTICS; AQUACULTURE; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); CONTAMINATION; HOSPITALS; INDUSTRIAL PLANTS; INDUSTRIAL WASTE TREATMENT; NITROGEN COMPOUNDS; PLANNING; SEWAGE; SEWAGE TREATMENT; SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANTS; STRATEGIC PLANNING; WASTE TREATMENT; WASTEWATER; WATER POLLUTION;

ANIMAL HUSBANDRIES; AQUEOUS ENVIRONMENTS; CEPHALEXIN; COMPREHENSIVE STUDIES; CONTAMINATION SOURCES; DICLOFENAC; ECOTOXICITY; EFFECT CONCENTRATIONS; ENVIRONMENTAL CONTAMINATIONS; IBUPROFENS; OFLOXACIN; PHARMACEUTICAL PRODUCTIONS; PHARMACEUTICALS; RECEIVING WATERS; SULFAMETHOXAZOLE; USAGE DATUMS; WASTE STREAMS;

DRUG PRODUCTS;

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTILIPEMIC AGENT; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; CAFFEINE; CEFALEXIN; CEPHALOSPORIN DERIVATIVE; CHLORAMPHENICOL DERIVATIVE; DICLOFENAC; ESTROGEN; HORMONE; IBUPROFEN; IMIDAZOLE DERIVATIVE; LINCOMYCIN; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; OFLOXACIN; PARACETAMOL; PENICILLIN DERIVATIVE; PSYCHOSTIMULANT AGENT; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; SULFADIAZINE; SULFAFURAZOLE; SULFAMERAZINE; SULFAMETHIZOLE; SULFAMETHOXAZOLE; SULFANILAMIDE; SULFASOMIDINE; SULFATHIAZOLE; UNINDEXED DRUG; VASODILATOR AGENT;

AGRICULTURAL RUNOFF; ANTIBIOTICS; AQUACULTURE EFFLUENT; ECOTOXICOLOGY; HEALTH RISK; HOSPITAL SECTOR; INDUSTRIAL WASTE; REGULATORY APPROACH; REMEDIATION; RISK ASSESSMENT; STRATEGIC APPROACH; STREAM; WASTEWATER; WATER POLLUTION;

AGRICULTURAL WASTE; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; AQUACULTURE; AQUATIC ENVIRONMENT; ARTICLE; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DRUG INDUSTRY; ECOSYSTEM; ECOTOXICITY; HOSPITAL WASTE; INDUSTRIAL WASTE; MEASUREMENT; POLLUTANT; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEWAGE DISPOSAL; SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT; TAIWAN; WASTE DISPOSAL;

AGRICULTURE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; INDUSTRIAL WASTE; PHARMACEUTICAL PREPARATIONS; RISK ASSESSMENT; TAIWAN; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; WATER POLLUTION;

ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; TAIWAN;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 55849096213     PISSN: 00456535     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2008.08.027     Document Type: Article

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