Emerging contaminants: A scientific challenge without borders

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 487, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 747-

  Bellenger, Jean Philippe ^a   Cabana, Hubert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE SHERBROOKE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; DYE; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTOR; ILLICIT DRUG; INDUSTRIAL CHEMICAL; PESTICIDE;

BIOTRANSFORMATION; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CHEMICAL INTERACTION; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; ECOTOXICOLOGY; EDITORIAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLICATION; SEWAGE EFFLUENT; SYMPOSIUM; WASTE WATER TREATMENT PLANT; WATER CONTAMINATION;

CONSENSUS DEVELOPMENT CONFERENCES AS TOPIC; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION;

EID: 84900561481     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2014.05.031     Document Type: Editorial

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