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EU Wide Monitoring Survey on Waste Water Treatment Plant Effluents
Robert Loos,Raquel N. Carvalho,Sara Comero,Diana C. António,Michela Ghiani,Teresa Lettieri,Giovanni Locoro,Bruno Paracchini,Simona Tavazzi,Bernd Manfred Gawlik,Luděk Bláha,Barbora Jarošová,Stefan Voorspoels,David Schwesig,Peter Haglund,Jerker Fick,Oliver Gans +16 more
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The main objective of this research project (Fate Sees) was to verify on a European-wide scale the occurrence of as many as possible organic and inorganic chemical contaminants in WWTP effluents, in order to get a European overview as discussed by the authors.Abstract:
The main objective of this research project (“Fate Sees”) was to verify on a European-wide scale the occurrence of as many as possible organic and inorganic chemical contaminants in WWTP effluents, in order to get a European overview. In the year 2010, effluents from 90 European waste water treatment plants (WWTPs) were collected and analysed in total for 160 organic chemicals and 20 inorganic trace elements. The analyses were complemented by applying also effect-based monitoring approaches aiming at estrogenicity and dioxin-like toxicity analysed by in vitro reporter gene bioassays, and yeast and diatom culture acute toxicity optical bioassays.read more
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Measuring biomarkers in wastewater as a new source of epidemiological information: Current state and future perspectives
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