Occurrence of estrogenic endocrine disrupting chemicals concern in sewage plant effluent

Frontiers of Environmental Science and Engineering

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 18-26

  Sun, Yan ^a   Huang, Huang ^a   Sun, Ying ^b   Wang, Chao ^c   Shi, Xiaolei ^a   Hu, Hongying ^a   Kameya, Takashi ^d   Fujie, Koichi ^d  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b BEIJING 302 HOSPITAL   (China)

^c Hong Kong Institute of Higher Education   (China)

^d YOKOHAMA NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

concentration distribution; estrogenic endocrine disrupting chemicals; sewage plant

Indexed keywords

EID: 84883875790     PISSN: 20952201     EISSN: 2095221X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11783-013-0573-5     Document Type: Review

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