The pharmaceutical use of permethrin: Sources and behavior during municipal sewage treatment

Archives of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology

Volumn 61, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 193-201

  Turner, T ^a   Cartmell, E ^b   Lester, J N ^b   Casse, F ^c   Comber, S D W ^c   Scrimshaw, M D ^a  

^a BRUNEL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b CRANFIELD UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c ATKINS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PERMETHRIN;

AGRICULTURAL PRACTICE; AQUATIC ENVIRONMENT; BIODEGRADATION; DRUG; ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY; FORESTRY; HORTICULTURE; MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE; PERMETHRIN; POLLUTANT REMOVAL; SEWAGE TREATMENT; TWENTY FIRST CENTURY; WASTEWATER;

ARTICLE; DEGRADATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEWAGE; SEWAGE TREATMENT; WATER STANDARD;

ACARICIDES; BIODEGRADATION, ENVIRONMENTAL; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FILTRATION; PERMETHRIN; SEWAGE; WASTE DISPOSAL, FLUID; WATER PURIFICATION;

LEPIDOPTERA;

EID: 79960445108     PISSN: 00904341     EISSN: 14320703     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00244-010-9615-1     Document Type: Article

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