Occurrence, fate and environmental risk assessment of endocrine disrupting compounds at the wastewater treatment works in Pietermaritzburg (South Africa)

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 468-469, Issue , 2014, Pages 584-597

  Manickum, T ^a   John, W ^a  

^a Scientific Services Division   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Activated sludge; ELISA; Endocrine disrupting compound (EDC); Risk assessment; Sewage effluent; Steroid hormones

Indexed keywords

BIOASSAY; BIODEGRADATION; EFFLUENTS; ENDOCRINOLOGY; HEALTH RISKS; MICROBIOLOGY; ORGANIC POLLUTANTS; REMOVAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEWAGE; STEROID HORMONES; SURFACE WATERS; WASTEWATER TREATMENT;

ACTIVATED SLUDGE; ELISA; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTING COMPOUND; ENVIRONMENTAL RISK ASSESSMENT; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; RISK ASSESSMENT METHODS; SEWAGE EFFLUENTS; WASTEWATER TREATMENT WORKS;

ENDOCRINE DISRUPTERS;

ENDOCRINE DISRUPTOR; ENVIRONMENTAL CHEMICAL; ESTRADIOL; ESTRIOL; ESTRONE; ETHINYLESTRADIOL; PROGESTERONE; SURFACE WATER; TESTOSTERONE;

ACTIVATED SLUDGE; BIODEGRADATION; EFFLUENT; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTOR; ENVIRONMENTAL FATE; ENVIRONMENTAL INDICATOR; ENVIRONMENTAL RISK; IMMUNOASSAY; POLLUTANT REMOVAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SURFACE WATER; WASTE TREATMENT; WASTEWATER; WATER POLLUTION;

ACTIVATED SLUDGE; ARTICLE; BIOASSAY; BIOREMEDIATION; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; EFFLUENT; ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH; ESTROGEN ACTIVITY; HEALTH HAZARD; HIGH RISK POPULATION; INFLUENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOUTH AFRICA; SPRING; WASTE COMPONENT REMOVAL; WASTE WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER POLLUTANT; WATER POLLUTION INDICATOR; WINTER;

KWAZULU-NATAL; PIETERMARITZBURG; SOUTH AFRICA;

17-Α-ETHINYLESTRADIOL; 17-Β-ESTRADIOL; 17-Β-ESTRADIOL EQUIVALENT; ACCEPTABLE DAILY INTAKE; ACTIVATED SLUDGE; ADI; ATV; AUT; AUTUMN; AVERAGE TRIGGER VALUE; BIO; BIOLOGICAL; BIOLOGICAL NUTRIENT REMOVAL; BNR; CHEM; CHEMICAL; CHEMICAL CONCENTRATION OF HORMONE I; CI; CIR; COMPUTED INTERNATIONAL RANGE; D/S (D/S); DARVILL WASTEWATER WORKS; DOWN-STREAM; DWWW; E1; E2; E3; EDC; EE2; EEF; EEQ; ELISA; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTING COMPOUND; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTING COMPOUND (EDC); ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; EQS; EQUIVALENTS; ESTRADIOL EQUIVALENCY FACTOR; ESTRIOL; ESTRONE; HDD; HED; HUMAN DAILY DOSE; HUMAN EQUIVALENT DOSE; MBR; MEMBRANE BIO-REACTOR; PRO/PRO; PROGESTERONE/PROGESTERONE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEWAGE EFFLUENT; SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT; SOLIDS RETENTION TIME; SPR; SPRING; SRT; STEROID HORMONES; STP; SUM; SUMMER; TES/TES; TESTOSTERONE/TESTOSTERONE; U/S (U/S); UP-STREAM; UPPER TRIGGER VALUE; UTV; WASTEWATER WORKS; WATER RESEARCH COMMISSION; WIN; WINTER; WRC; WWW;

CHROMATOGRAPHY, LIQUID; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTORS; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; GONADAL STEROID HORMONES; HUMANS; MASS SPECTROMETRY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOUTH AFRICA; WASTE DISPOSAL, FLUID; WASTE WATER; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

EID: 84884407678     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2013.08.041     Document Type: Article

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