EU-wide survey of polar organic persistent pollutants in European river waters

Environmental Pollution

Volumn 157, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 561-568

  Loos, Robert ^a   Gawlik, Bernd Manfred ^a   Locoro, Giovanni ^a   Rimaviciute, Erika ^a   Contini, Serafino ^a   Bidoglio, Giovanni ^a  

^a JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

Author keywords

EU wide monitoring; River waters; SPE LC MS2

Indexed keywords

BENZOTRIAZOLE; BENZOTRIAZOLES; CARBAMAZEPINE; CHEMICAL POLLUTIONS; CONCENTRATION LEVELS; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTERS; EU-WIDE MONITORING; EUROPEAN COUNTRIES; EUROPEANS; RIVER WATER SAMPLES; RIVER WATERS; SPE-LC-MS2; TARGET COMPOUNDS; WATER SAMPLES;

AMIDES; NITROGEN COMPOUNDS; ORGANIC POLLUTANTS; RIVERS;

RIVER POLLUTION;

BENZOTRIAZOLE DERIVATIVE; CAFFEINE; CARBAMAZEPINE; PESTICIDE; TRIAZOLE;

ENDOCRINE DISRUPTOR; EUROPEAN UNION; HORMONE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; ORGANIC POLLUTANT; PERSISTENCE; POLLUTION MONITORING; RIVER POLLUTION; RIVER WATER; SURFACE WATER;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MONITORING; EUROPE; ORGANIC POLLUTION; WATER ANALYSIS; WATER POLLUTANT; WATER POLLUTION;

CHROMATOGRAPHY, LIQUID; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; EUROPEAN UNION; FRESH WATER; MASS SPECTROMETRY; ORGANIC CHEMICALS; RIVERS; SOLID PHASE EXTRACTION; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; WATER POLLUTION, CHEMICAL;

EID: 57049164800     PISSN: 02697491     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2008.09.020     Document Type: Article

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