Brett J. Vanderford

TL;DR: Atenolol, atrazine, DEET, estrone, meprobamate, and trimethoprim can serve as indicator compounds representing potential contamination from other pharmaceuticals and EDCs and can gauge the efficacy of treatment processes.

TL;DR: Conventional drinking water treatment methods were relatively inefficient for contaminant removal, while efficient removal was achieved by granular activated carbon (GAC).In wastewater treatment processes, membrane bioreactors showed limited target compound removal, but were effective at eliminating hormones and some pharmaceuticals.

TL;DR: Sulfuric acid was found to be the preferred sample preservative, and structures of all MS/MS product ions are proposed in both ESI modes and are discussed in the paper.

TL;DR: A method has been developed for the trace analysis of 15 pharmaceuticals, four metabolites of Pharmaceuticals, three potential endocrine disruptors, and one personal care product in various waters, and results indicate that the method is very robust.

TL;DR: Water treatment techniques such as ferric or alum coagulation, granular/micro-/ultra- filtration, aeration, oxidation, disinfection, and disinfection were mostly ineffective in removing PFASs, however, anion exchange and granular activated carbon treatment preferably removed longer-chain PFAss and the PFSAs compared to the PFCAs, and reverse osmosis demonstrated significant removal for all thePFASs.