Europe-wide survey of estrogenicity in wastewater treatment plant effluents: the need for the effect-based monitoring

Environmental Science and Pollution Research

Volumn 21, Issue 18, 2014, Pages 10970-10982

  Jarošová, Barbora ^a   Erseková, Anita ^a   Hilscherová, Klára ^a   Loos, Robert ^b   Gawlik, Bernd M ^b   Giesy, John P ^c   Bláha, Ludek ^a  

^a MASARYK UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^b JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

Author keywords

EDCs; Endocrine disruptors; Hormones; In vitro bioassay; Monitoring; Rivers; Sewage

Indexed keywords

BIOASSAY; EFFLUENT; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTOR; ESTROGENIC COMPOUND; HORMONE; INDUSTRIAL WASTE; MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE; SAMPLING; WASTE TREATMENT; WASTEWATER;

EUROPE;

ESTROGEN; WASTE WATER; WATER POLLUTANT;

ANALYSIS; BIOASSAY; CHEMISTRY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; EUROPE; PROCEDURES; SEWAGE; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; WASTE WATER; WATER POLLUTANT;

BIOLOGICAL ASSAY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ESTROGENS; EUROPE; WASTE DISPOSAL, FLUID; WASTE WATER; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

EID: 84907861015     PISSN: 09441344     EISSN: 16147499     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11356-014-3056-8     Document Type: Article

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