EU-wide monitoring survey on emerging polar organic contaminants in wastewater treatment plant effluents

Water Research

Volumn 47, Issue 17, 2013, Pages 6475-6487

  Loos, Robert ^a   Carvalho, Raquel ^a   António, Diana C ^a   Comero, Sara ^a   Locoro, Giovanni ^a   Tavazzi, Simona ^a   Paracchini, Bruno ^a   Ghiani, Michela ^a   Lettieri, Teresa ^a   Blaha, Ludek ^b   Jarosova, Barbora ^b   Voorspoels, Stefan ^c   Servaes, Kelly ^c   Haglund, Peter ^d   Fick, Jerker ^d   Lindberg, Richard H ^d   Schwesig, David ^e   Gawlik, Bernd M ^a  

^a EUROPEAN COMMISSION   (Belgium)

^b MASARYK UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^c FLEMISH INSTITUTE FOR TECHNOLOGICAL RESEARCH VITO   (Belgium)

^d UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^e IWW WATER CENTRE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Effluent water; European wide monitoring; Pharmaceuticals and personal care products (PPCPs); Polar organic contaminants; Wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs)

Indexed keywords

AMIDES; ANTIBIOTICS; CORROSION; CORROSION INHIBITORS; EFFLUENT TREATMENT; ESTERS; EXTRACTION; FLAME RETARDANTS; GADOLINIUM; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; INDUSTRIAL CHEMICALS; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; LIQUIDS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MASS SPECTROMETRY; METABOLITES; ORGANIC CHEMICALS; PESTICIDES; PHASE SEPARATION; POLLUTION DETECTION; RECLAMATION; SEWAGE PUMPING PLANTS; SOLVENTS; SUGAR SUBSTITUTES; TOXICITY; WASTEWATER TREATMENT; WATER TREATMENT PLANTS;

EFFLUENT WATERS; FLAME RETARDANTS AND PLASTICIZERS; HIGH RESOLUTION MASS SPECTROMETRY; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY-TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY; PHARMACEUTICALS AND PERSONAL CARE PRODUCTS; POLAR ORGANIC CONTAMINANTS; WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT EFFLUENT; WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANTS;

EFFLUENTS;

ACESULFAME; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; BENZOTRIAZOLE DERIVATIVE; BISOPROLOL; CARBAMAZEPINE; CITALOPRAM; CODEINE; CONTRAST MEDIUM; DICLOFENAC; DIOXIN; EPROSARTAN; ESTER DERIVATIVE; FEXOFENADINE; FLAME RETARDANT; FLUCONAZOLE; GADOLINIUM; INDUSTRIAL CHEMICAL; IRBESARTAN; ORGANIC COMPOUND; ORGANOPHOSPHATE; OXAZEPAM; PESTICIDE; PLASTICIZER; SUCRALOSE; SWEETENING AGENT; TELMISARTAN; TRAMADOL; VENLAFAXINE; VETERINARY DRUG; WATER;

BIOASSAY; DIATOM; DIOXIN; DRUG; EFFLUENT; EUROPEAN UNION; METABOLISM; ORGANIC POLLUTANT; POLLUTION MONITORING; SEWAGE TREATMENT; YEAST;

ACUTE TOXICITY; ARTICLE; BIOASSAY; CONTAMINATION; DIATOM; EFFLUENT; EUROPE; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; LIQUID LIQUID EXTRACTION; MASS SPECTROMETRY; METABOLITE; MONITORING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPORTER GENE; SOLID PHASE EXTRACTION; TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY; WASTE WATER TREATMENT PLANT; YEAST;

EUROPE;

BACILLARIOPHYTA; HEXAPODA;

EFFLUENT WATER; EUROPEAN WIDE MONITORING; PHARMACEUTICALS AND PERSONAL CARE PRODUCTS (PPCPS); POLAR ORGANIC CONTAMINANTS; WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANTS (WWTPS);

DATA COLLECTION; DIATOMS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; EUROPEAN UNION; HOUSEHOLD PRODUCTS; ORGANIC CHEMICALS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; TOXICITY TESTS, ACUTE; WASTE DISPOSAL, FLUID; WASTE WATER; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; WATER PURIFICATION;

EID: 84886281750     PISSN: 00431354     EISSN: 18792448     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.watres.2013.08.024     Document Type: Article

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