Editorial by Alistair B.A. Boxall, Central Science Laboratory, York and University of York - UK
A review of recent publications on:
- Fate of pharmaceutical and personal care products during anaerobic digestion of sewage sludge
- Dechlorane Plus: Another flame retardant contaminating the European environment?
- Effects of the UV filter benzophenone-2 on reproduction in fish
- Determination of pKa values of active pharmaceutical ingredients
- Adapting an ambient monitoring programme to the challenge of managing emerging pollutants in the San Francisco Estuary
- Mass spectrometry for identifying pharmaceutical biotransformation products in the environment
- Using semi-permeable membrane devices as passive samplers
- Analytical techniques in studies of the environmental fate of pharmaceuticals and personal-care products
Research projects:
- COST Action 636: Xenobiotics in the Urban Water Cycle
- NANOSH: Inflammatory and genotoxic effects of engineered nanomaterials
- ESTROM: Swiss-Romanian Co-operative Research Programme
- PHARMSOMES: Environmental Exposure of Pharmaceuticals in the Somes Valley Watershed, Romania
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Editorial by Igor LISKA, Secretariat of the International Commission for the Protection of the Danube River
A review of recent publications on:
- Triclosan in plasma and milk from Swedish nursing mothers and their exposure via personal care products
- DMS: A new fungicide metabolite
- Occurrence of polycyclic musks in sewage sludge and their behaviour in soils and plants
- PFOS and PFOA in plasma of German population
- Quantitative structure-retention relationships of pesticides in reversed-phase HPLC
- Unidentified inert ingredients in pesticides: Implications for human and environmental health
- How to assess the risks of nanotechnology: Learning from past experience
- Expression of heat shock protein and hemoglobin genes in Chironomus tentans (Diptera, chironomidae) larvae exposed to various environmental pollutants: A potential biomarker of freshwater monitoring
- Ecotoxicological Risk of Pharmaceuticals from Wastewater Treatment Plants
- Determination of pharmaceuticals from different therapeutic classes in wastewaters
- Total fluorine in water and in human blood
Research projects:
- Joint Danube Surveys - ICPDR tool for searching the emerging substances
- NanoInteract
- Pesticides Atlas: Pesticides monitoring in the Netherlands
- NEPTUNE
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Editorial by Dolf van Wijk, Eurochlor
A review of recent publications on:
- Partitioning behaviour of five pharmaceuticals to activated sludge and river sediment
- PCBs and PBDEs in indoor environment
- Geosorbent properties of organic pollutants and bioavailability prediction
- Perfluorinated compounds in German rivers and drinking water
- Ecotoxicological effects of pharmaceuticals in aquatic organisms
- Determination of pharmaceuticals in hospital wastewaters
- Review of semi-automated determination of pesticides in water using SPE and GC-MS
- Extraction and clean-up strategies for the analysis of PFCs in environmental matrices
Research projects:
- FOOTPRINT - pesticides
- HIWATE – disinfection by-products
- KNAPPE - pharmaceuticals
- RISKBASE
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Editorial by Christian Daughton, US EPA
A review of recent publications on:
- Pharmaceuticals in sewage treatment plants
- Sources, fate and transport of perfluorocarboxylates
- Ecotoxicogenomics
- Lessons from endocrine disruption
- Environmental exposure pathways for DecaBDE
- Detection of progesterone with fully automated immunosensor techniques
- Identification Point approach for confirmation of emerging contaminants
- Analysis of polar pesticides in water by LC-MS
Research projects:
- The Environmental Nanosciences Initiative in the UK
- MODELKEY
- NoMIRACLE
- PERFORCE
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