A field study on 8 pharmaceuticals and 1 pesticide in Belgium: Removal rates in waste water treatment plants and occurrence in surface water

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 408, Issue 16, 2010, Pages 3448-3453

  Van De Steene, Jet C ^a   Stove, Christophe P ^a   Lambert, Willy E ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Environmental analysis; Environmental risk assessment; LC MS MS; Pharmaceuticals; Surface water; Waste water

Indexed keywords

AQUATIC ENVIRONMENTS; BELGIUM; CINNARIZINE; DOMPERIDONE; ENVIRONMENTAL ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL RISK ASSESSMENT; FIELD STUDIES; INDUSTRIAL COMPANIES; ITRACONAZOLE; LC-MS/MS; LOW CONCENTRATIONS; PHARMACEUTICALS; PROPICONAZOLE; RABEPRAZOLE; RECEIVING WATERS; REMOVAL RATE; WASTE WATER TREATMENT PLANTS;

CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); DEWATERING; DRUG PRODUCTS; GROUNDWATER; PESTICIDES; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK MANAGEMENT; SEWAGE; SURFACE WATERS; WASTEWATER; WASTEWATER TREATMENT; WATER RECYCLING; WATER TREATMENT PLANTS;

EFFLUENTS;

CINNARIZINE; DOMPERIDONE; FLUBENDAZOLE; ITRACONAZOLE; KETOCONAZOLE; MICONAZOLE; PESTICIDE; PIPAMPERONE; PROPICONAZOLE; RABEPRAZOLE; SURFACE WATER; DRUG; WATER POLLUTANT;

CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DRUG; EFFLUENT; ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL RISK; FIELD METHOD; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; PESTICIDE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SURFACE WATER; WASTEWATER;

AQUATIC ENVIRONMENT; ARTICLE; BELGIUM; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG INDUSTRY; EFFLUENT; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FIELD STUDY; INDUSTRIAL WASTE; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; POLLUTION MONITORING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS DEVELOPMENT; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RURAL AREA; TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY; WASTE COMPONENT REMOVAL; WASTE WATER TREATMENT PLANT; WATER ANALYSIS; WATER POLLUTION; ANALYSIS; CHEMISTRY; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; WATER POLLUTANT;

BELGIUM; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; PESTICIDES; PHARMACEUTICAL PREPARATIONS; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

BELGIUM;

EID: 77953729078     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2010.04.037     Document Type: Article

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