Triclosan: Occurrence and fate of a widely used biocide in the aquatic environment: Field measurements in wastewater treatment plants, surface waters, and lake sediments
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...Triclosan is an antimicrobial agent used in a multitude of household products; in WWTPs around 90% of the incoming triclosan is removed from the water, by degradation and adsorption to sludge (Bester, 2003; Heidler and Halden, 2008; Singer et al., 2002), which is a high but not complete removal....
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...Field measurements from a Swiss WWTP have detailed the elimination process of TCS: 79% was biologically degraded, 15% was sorbed to sludge and 6% left the plant in the final effluent at a concentration of 42 ng l−1 (Singer et al., 2002; Table 1)....
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...On the global front, the production of TCS has now exceeded 1500 tons per year, with Europe being responsible for 350 tons of total production (Singer et al., 2002)....
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...The antimicrobial has been measured in 30‐year‐old sediment from lake Greifensee in Switzerland (Singer et al., 2002)....
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...Buser et al. (2006) analyzed levels of MTCS in juvenile (1–2 year old) brown trout (Salmo trutta fario) from rivers in Northern Switzerland receiving effluent from WWTPs. Concentrations of MTCS in fish were reported between 130 and 2100 ng g−1 of lipid weight....
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...Antimicrobial agents TCS and TCC have received increasing research attention internationally (Singer et al., 2002; Ying and Kookana, 2007) and are capable of ecological toxicity (Yang et al....
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...Antimicrobial agents TCS and TCC have received increasing research attention internationally (Singer et al., 2002; Ying and Kookana, 2007) and are capable of ecological toxicity (Yang et al., 2008) and bioaccumulation in environmental biota (Kinney et al., 2008)....
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...Singer et al. (2002) reported the reduction of triclosan as high as 90%, of which 79% was biologically degraded....
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