Stability of cocaine and its metabolites in municipal wastewater - the case for using metabolite consolidation to monitor cocaine utilization

Environmental Science and Pollution Research

Volumn 21, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 4453-4460

  Bisceglia, Kevin J ^a,b,c   Lippa, Katrice A ^b  

^a Johns Hopkins University   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c HOFSTRA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Benzoylecgonine illicit drugs; Cocaine; Ecgonine; Sewage epidemiology; Sewer information mining; Stability; Wastewater

Indexed keywords

ALKALOID; BACTERIUM; BIOTRANSFORMATION; EPIDEMIOLOGY; ESTER; ESTIMATION METHOD; EXCRETION; HYDROLYSIS; METABOLITE; MINING; PH; SEWAGE; STABILIZATION; WASTEWATER;

BENZOYLECGONINE; COCAINE; DRUG DERIVATIVE; ECGONINE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; DRUG UTILIZATION; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; HYDROLYSIS; PH; SEWAGE; STATISTICS; WASTE WATER; WATER POLLUTANT;

COCAINE; DRUG UTILIZATION; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; HYDROLYSIS; SEWAGE; WASTE WATER; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

EID: 84895861091     PISSN: 09441344     EISSN: 16147499     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11356-013-2403-5     Document Type: Article

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