Evaluating the environmental impact of artificial sweeteners: A study of their distributions, photodegradation and toxicities

Water Research

Volumn 52, Issue , 2014, Pages 260-274

  Sang, Ziye ^a   Jiang, Yanan ^a   Tsoi, Yeuk Ki ^a   Leung, Kelvin Sze Yin ^a  

^a HONG KONG BAPTIST UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Artificial sweetener; Emerging environmental contaminant; Photodegradation; Phototoxicity; Wastewater treatment

Indexed keywords

AQUATIC ECOSYSTEMS; DEGRADATION; FOOD ADDITIVES; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IRRADIATION; PHOTODEGRADATION; RECLAMATION; SUGAR SUBSTITUTES; SUGARS; TOXICITY; WASTEWATER TREATMENT; WATER RESOURCES;

ARTIFICIAL SWEETENERS; ENVIRONMENTAL BEHAVIOR; ENVIRONMENTAL CONTAMINANT; ENVIRONMENTAL THREATS; MINERALIZATION PROCESS; PHOTO-TOXICITY; REAL TIME OBSERVATION; WASTEWATER TREATMENT PROCESS;

ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT;

ACESULFAME; CYCLAMATE SODIUM; SACCHARIN; SUCRALOSE; SWEETENING AGENT; TITANIUM DIOXIDE; ACETOSULFAME; SUCROSE; THIAZINE DERIVATIVE; TITANIUM; TRICHLOROSUCROSE; WASTE WATER; WATER POLLUTANT;

AQUATIC ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; MINERALIZATION; PHOTODEGRADATION; POLLUTANT; POLLUTANT REMOVAL; SOLAR RADIATION; TOXICITY; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION; WASTEWATER; WATER RESOURCE; WATER TREATMENT;

ACUTE TOXICITY; AQUATIC ENVIRONMENT; ARTICLE; DRUG RESISTANCE; ECOTOXICOLOGY; ELECTROSPRAY MASS SPECTROMETRY; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; ESTUARY; LONG TERM EXPOSURE; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MINERALIZATION; PHOTODEGRADATION; PHOTOTOXICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEASONAL VARIATION; SOLAR RADIATION; SUMMER; ULTRA PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; ULTRAVIOLET IRRADIATION; WASTE WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER SUPPLY; WINTER; ANALOGS AND DERIVATIVES; ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; HONG KONG; KINETICS; METABOLISM; PHOTOLYSIS; PROCEDURES; SEASON; TOXICITY; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION; WASTE WATER; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER POLLUTANT;

ECOTOXICOLOGY; ENVIRONMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ESTUARIES; HONG KONG; KINETICS; PHOTOLYSIS; SEASONS; SUCROSE; SWEETENING AGENTS; THIAZINES; TITANIUM; ULTRAVIOLET RAYS; WASTE WATER; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; WATER PURIFICATION;

EID: 84897631998     PISSN: 00431354     EISSN: 18792448     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.watres.2013.11.002     Document Type: Article

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