Pharmaceuticals as emerging organic contaminants in Umgeni River water system, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

Volumn 186, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 7273-7291

  Agunbiade, Foluso O ^a,b   Moodley, Brenda ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

^b REDEEMER S UNIVERSITY   (Nigeria)

Author keywords

HPLC DAD; Pharmaceuticals; Solid phase extraction; Umgeni River; Wastewater treatment

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTICS; CAFFEINE; DRUG PRODUCTS; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; PHASE SEPARATION; RIVER POLLUTION; RIVERS; WASTE TREATMENT; WASTEWATER TREATMENT;

EMERGING ORGANIC CONTAMINANTS; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY-DIODE ARRAY DETECTORS; HPLC-DAD; HYDROPHILIC-LIPOPHILIC BALANCE; PHARMACEUTICALS AND PERSONAL CARE PRODUCTS; SOLID-PHASE EXTRACTION; STANDARD ADDITION METHOD; WASTE TREATMENT PROCESS;

EXTRACTION;

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; AMPICILLIN; ATENOLOL; BEZAFIBRATE; CAFFEINE; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CIPROFLOXACIN; DICLOFENAC; ERYTHROMYCIN; IBUPROFEN; KETOPROFEN; NALIDIXIC ACID; ORGANIC COMPOUND; PARACETAMOL; STREPTOMYCIN; SULFAMETHOXAZOLE; SURFACE WATER; TETRACYCLINE; TYLOSIN; DRUG; WASTE WATER; WATER POLLUTANT;

ARRAY; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DRUG; ENVIRONMENTAL FATE; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; ORGANIC POLLUTANT; POLLUTANT REMOVAL; RIVER DISCHARGE; RIVER WATER; WASTEWATER; WATER QUALITY;

ARTICLE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; DIODE; ESTUARY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; HYDROPHILICITY; LAGOON; LIMIT OF DETECTION; LIMIT OF QUANTITATION; LIPOPHILICITY; PHASE SEPARATION; SOLID PHASE EXTRACTION; SOUTH AFRICA; WASTE WATER; WASTE WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER SAMPLING; WATER SUPPLY; ANALYSIS; CHEMISTRY; ENVIRONMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; RIVER; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; WATER POLLUTANT;

KWAZULU-NATAL; MGENI RIVER; SOUTH AFRICA;

CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; ENVIRONMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; PHARMACEUTICAL PREPARATIONS; RIVERS; SOLID PHASE EXTRACTION; SOUTH AFRICA; WASTE WATER; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

EID: 84910018333     PISSN: 01676369     EISSN: 15732959     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10661-014-3926-z     Document Type: Article

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