Occurrence of pharmaceuticals in urban wastewater of north Indian cities and risk assessment

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

Volumn 186, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 6663-6682

  Singh, Kunwar P ^a,b   Rai, Premanjali ^a,b   Singh, Arun K ^a,b   Verma, Priyanka ^b   Gupta, Shikha ^a,b  

^a ACADEMY OF SCIENTIFIC AND INNOVATIVE RESEARCH ACSIR   (India)

^b CSIR INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TOXICOLOGY RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

Anti epileptic; Anti microbial; Environmental risk assessment; Nonsteroidal anti inflammatory drugs; Solid phase extraction; Wastewater

Indexed keywords

DRUG PRODUCTS; EXTRACTION; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; PHASE SEPARATION; POPULATION STATISTICS; WASTEWATER;

ANTI-EPILEPTIC; ANTI-MICROBIAL; ENVIRONMENTAL RISK ASSESSMENT; NON-STEROIDAL ANTI-INFLAMMATORY DRUGS; SOLID-PHASE EXTRACTION;

RISK ASSESSMENT;

CARBAMAZEPINE; DICLOFENAC; IBUPROFEN; KETOPROFEN; NAPROXEN; TRIMETHOPRIM; DRUG; WASTE WATER; WATER POLLUTANT;

DRUG; ENVIRONMENTAL RISK; EXTRACTION METHOD; RISK ASSESSMENT; SPATIAL VARIATION; URBAN AREA; WASTEWATER;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; INDIA; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; QUALITY CONTROL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEWAGE; SOLID PHASE EXTRACTION; URBAN AREA; VALIDATION PROCESS; WASTE WATER; ANALYSIS; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; CITY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; WATER POLLUTANT;

GHAZIABAD; INDIA; LUCKNOW CITY; UTTAR PRADESH;

ALGAE; DAPHNIA; LEMNA; ROTIFERA;

ANIMALS; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; CITIES; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; INDIA; PHARMACEUTICAL PREPARATIONS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOLID PHASE EXTRACTION; WASTE WATER; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

EID: 84921689580     PISSN: 01676369     EISSN: 15732959     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10661-014-3881-8     Document Type: Article

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