GC-MS determination of bisphenol A and alkylphenol ethoxylates in river water from India and their ecotoxicological risk assessment

Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety

Volumn 99, Issue , 2014, Pages 13-20

  Selvaraj, Krishna Kumar ^a   Shanmugam, Govindaraj ^a   Sampath, Srimurali ^a   Joakim Larsson, D G ^b   Ramaswamy, Babu Rajendran ^a  

^a BHARATHIDASAN UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Aquatic risk assessment; Bisphenol A; EDCs; Nonylphenol; Octylphenol

Indexed keywords

4,4' ISOPROPYLIDENEDIPHENOL; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTOR; NONYLPHENOL; OCTYLPHENOL; PHENOL DERIVATIVE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

BIVALVE; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DRINKING WATER; ECOTOXICOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL RISK; FISH; PHENOLIC COMPOUND; RISK ASSESSMENT; RIVER WATER; TOXICITY; WATER QUALITY;

ARTICLE; BARNACLE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CRUSTACEA; DRINKING; ECOTOXICOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ESTUARY; FISH; HUMAN; INDIA; INSECT; MASS FRAGMENTOGRAPHY; MOLLUSC; NONHUMAN; OYSTER; RISK ASSESSMENT; RIVER; WATER ANALYSIS; WATER POLLUTION; WATER QUALITY;

AQUATIC RISK ASSESSMENT; BISPHENOL A; EDCS; NONYLPHENOL; OCTYLPHENOL;

ANIMALS; AQUATIC ORGANISMS; BENZHYDRYL COMPOUNDS; ECOTOXICOLOGY; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTORS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FISHES; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY-MASS SPECTROMETRY; HUMANS; INDIA; PHENOLS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RIVERS; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

CAUVERY RIVER; INDIA;

CRUSTACEA; HEXAPODA; MOLLUSCA; OSTREIDAE; THORACICA;

EID: 84887815434     PISSN: 01476513     EISSN: 10902414     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoenv.2013.09.006     Document Type: Article

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