Analysis of environmental endocrine disrupting chemicals using the E-screen method and stir bar sorptive extraction in wastewater treatment plant effluents

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 407, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1842-1851

  Bicchi, C ^a   Schiliro T ^a   Pignata, C ^a   Fea, E ^a   Cordero, C ^a   Canale, F ^a   Gilli, G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

Author keywords

E screen; Endocrine disrupting chemicals; Stir bar sorptive extraction; Toxicity; WWTP

Indexed keywords

ACUTE TOXICITY TESTS; ALKYLPHENOLS; CONCENTRATION OF; E-SCREEN; EFFLUENT WATERS; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTING CHEMICALS; ENDOCRINE SYSTEMS; ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE; ESTROGENIC ACTIVITIES; ESTROGENICITY; NATURAL HORMONES; PHTHALATES; PILOT STUDIES; RIVER WATERS; SOLID-PHASE EXTRACTIONS; STIR BAR SORPTIVE EXTRACTION; VIBRIO FISCHERI; WASTE WATER TREATMENT PLANTS; WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT EFFLUENTS; WATER SAMPLES; WWTP; XENOESTROGENS;

CHEMICAL PLANTS; CHEMICALS; EFFLUENTS; ESTERS; RIVERS; SEWAGE PUMPING PLANTS; SURFACE TREATMENT; TOXIC MATERIALS; TOXICITY; WASTEWATER; WASTEWATER RECLAMATION; WASTEWATER TREATMENT; WATER POLLUTION; WATER RECYCLING; WATER TREATMENT; WATER TREATMENT PLANTS;

EXTRACTION;

BIOASSAY; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); ENDOCRINE DISRUPTOR; ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT; ESTROGENIC COMPOUND; EXTRACTION METHOD; INDUSTRIAL WASTE; RIVER POLLUTION; SORPTION; TOXICITY; WASTE TREATMENT; WASTEWATER;

CELL LINE, TUMOR; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTORS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY-MASS SPECTROMETRY; HUMANS; PILOT PROJECTS; RIVERS; SEWAGE; SOLID PHASE EXTRACTION; TOXICITY TESTS; VIBRIO FISCHERI; WASTE DISPOSAL, FLUID; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

VIBRIO FISCHERI;

EID: 60049092476     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2008.11.039     Document Type: Article

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