Microbial degradation of the pharmaceutical ibuprofen and the herbicide 2,4-D in water and soil - Use and limits of data obtained from aqueous systems for predicting their fate in soil

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 444, Issue , 2013, Pages 32-42

  Girardi, Cristobal ^a   Nowak, Karolina M ^a   Carranza Diaz, Otoniel ^a   Lewkow, Benjamín ^a   Miltner, Anja ^a   Gehre, Matthias ^a   Schäffer, Andreas ^b   Kästner, Matthias ^a  

^a HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH UFZ   (Germany)

^b RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Biodegradation rates; Labelled compounds; Mineralisation; Non extractable residues; OECD tests 301, 307; Risk assessment of chemicals

Indexed keywords

BIODEGRADATION RATE; LABELLED COMPOUNDS; MINERALISATION; NON-EXTRACTABLE RESIDUES; OECD TESTS 301, 307;

BIODEGRADATION; CARBON; CHEMICALS; DEGRADATION; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENTS; EXTRAPOLATION; HERBICIDES; MICROBIOLOGY; MINERALOGY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOILS;

GEOLOGIC MODELS;

2,4 DICHLOROPHENOXYACETIC ACID; CARBON 13; CARBON 14; IBUPROFEN;

BIODEGRADATION; BIOMASS; DRUG; ENVIRONMENTAL FATE; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL RISK; HERBICIDE; MICROORGANISM; MINERALIZATION; OECD; RISK ASSESSMENT;

AQUEOUS SOLUTION; ARTICLE; BIODEGRADABILITY; BIOMASS PRODUCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG DEGRADATION; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; ISOTOPE LABELING; MICROBIAL BIOMASS; MICROBIAL DEGRADATION; MINERALIZATION; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESIDUE ANALYSIS; SOIL POLLUTION; WATER CONTAMINATION;

2,4-DICHLOROPHENOXYACETIC ACID; BIODEGRADATION, ENVIRONMENTAL; HERBICIDES; IBUPROFEN; KINETICS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY; SOIL POLLUTANTS; WATER MICROBIOLOGY; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

EID: 84871359237     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2012.11.051     Document Type: Article

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