Analyses of Drugs and Pharmaceuticals in the Environment

Biophysico-Chemical Processes of Anthropogenic Organic Compounds in Environmental Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 439-462

  Ali, Imran ^a   Aboul Enein, Hassan Y ^b   Kummerer, Klaus ^c  

^a JAMIA MILLIA ISLAMIA CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b NATIONAL RESEARCH CENTRE   (Egypt)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Drugs and pharmaceutical analyses in environment; Extraction procedures for pharmaceuticals in sediments and sludge; Toxicities, drug and pharmaceutical residues in environment not acceptable

Indexed keywords

EID: 84872595438     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470944479.ch17     Document Type: Chapter

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