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Investigation of the presence and endocrine activities of pesticides found in wastewater effluent using yeast-based bioassays

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Spatial and Temporal Variability in Attenuation of Polar Organic Micropollutants in an Urban Lowland Stream

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Adsorbents derived from hydrotalcites for the removal of diclofenac in wastewater

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Unravelling the mechanisms of PFOS toxicity by combining morphological and transcriptomic analyses in zebrafish embryos

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Influence of parameters and radical scavengers on the visible-light-induced degradation of ciprofloxacin in ZnO/SnS2 nanocomposite suspension: Identification of transformation products

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Integrating organic micropollutant removal into tertiary filtration: Combining PAC adsorption with advanced phosphorus removal

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Screening of Benzodiazepines in Thirty European Rivers

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Micropollutants removal from secondary-treated municipal wastewater using weak polyelectrolyte multilayer based nanofiltration membranes

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Molecularly imprinted polymer modified glassy carbon electrodes for the electrochemical analysis of isoproturon in water

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Emerging organic contaminants in groundwater under a rapidly developing city (Patna) in northern India dominated by high concentrations of lifestyle chemicals

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Artificial sweetener enhances the spread of antibiotic resistance genes during anaerobic digestion

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An assessment of endocrine activity in Australian rivers using chemical and in vitro analyses

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Occurrence, seasonal variations and removal of Organic Micropollutants in 76 Wastewater Treatment Plants

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Selection of substances for the 3rd Watch List under the Water Framework Directive

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Mapping chemical footprints of organic micropollutants in European streams

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Effect of particle size on adsorption of norfloxacin and tetracycline onto suspended particulate matter in lake

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Metabolomics approach reveals disruption of metabolic pathways in the marine bivalve Mytilus galloprovincialis exposed to a WWTP effluent extract

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A Review of the Environmental Fate and Effects of Acesulfame-Potassium

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Occurrence and Spatiotemporal Dynamics of Pharmaceuticals in a Temperate-Region Wastewater Effluent-Dominated Stream: Variable Inputs and Differential Attenuation Yield Evolving Complex Exposure Mixtures

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Characterization of advanced wastewater treatment with ozone and activated carbon using LC-HRMS based non-target screening with automated trend assignment

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Evaluation of a full-scale wastewater treatment plant with ozonation and different post-treatments using a broad range of in vitro and in vivo bioassays

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Photocatalytic transformation of acesulfame: Transformation products identification and embryotoxicity study

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Spatial and seasonal trends of organic micropollutants in Sweden’s most important drinking water reservoir

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Targeted eco-pharmacovigilance for ketoprofen in the environment: Need, strategy and challenge

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Aging of biodegradable blended plastic generates microplastics and attached bacterial communities in air and aqueous environments

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LC-HRMS Data Processing Strategy for Reliable Sample Comparison Exemplified by the Assessment of Water Treatment Processes

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Highly sensitive luminescent detection toward polytypic antibiotics by a water-stable and white-light-emitting MOF-76 derivative

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Presence of endocrine disruptors in freshwater in the northern Antarctic Peninsula region

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Wastewater reuse and pharmaceutical pollution in agriculture: Uptake, transport, accumulation and metabolism of pharmaceutical pollutants within plants

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Europe-wide survey of estrogenicity in wastewater treatment plant effluents: the need for the effect-based monitoring

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Adsorption and catalytic electro-peroxone degradation of fluconazole by magnetic copper ferrite/carbon nanotubes

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Putting benign by design into practice-novel concepts for green and sustainable pharmacy: Designing green drug derivatives by non-targeted synthesis and screening for biodegradability

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Transformation of acesulfame in chlorination: Kinetics study, identification of byproducts, and toxicity assessment

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Pharmaceuticals in farms and surrounding surface water bodies: Hazard and ecotoxicity in a swine production area in Costa Rica

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Climate change impact on EU rivers' dilution capacity and ecological status

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Electron beam irradiation induced degradation of antidepressant drug fluoxetine in water matrices

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Removal of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs from water by zeolite-rich composites: The interference of inorganic anions on the ibuprofen and naproxen adsorption

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Fate and removal of typical pharmaceutical and personal care products in a wastewater treatment plant from Beijing: a mass balance study

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Removal of micropollutants through a biological wastewater treatment plant in a subtropical climate, Queensland-Australia

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Multi-residue method for the determination of antibiotics and some of their metabolites in seafood

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Enhancement of antibiotic resistance dissemination by artificial sweetener acesulfame potassium: Insights from cell membrane, enzyme, energy supply and transcriptomics

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A survey on trace organic chemicals in a German water protection area and the proposal of relevant indicators for anthropogenic influences

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Detailed mass flows and removal efficiencies for biocides and antibiotics in Swedish sewage treatment plants

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Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances Presence, Pathways, and Cycling through Drinking Water and Wastewater Treatment

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Remediation of pharmaceutical pollutants using graphene-based materials - A review on operating conditions, mechanism and toxicology

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Degradation of Caffeine by Advanced Oxidative Processes: O3and O3/UV

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Removal of pharmaceuticals from nitrified urine by adsorption on granular activated carbon

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Multitracer experiment to evaluate the attenuation of selected organic micropollutants in a karst aquifer

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Critical evaluation of monitoring strategy for the multi-residue determination of 90 chiral and achiral micropollutants in effluent wastewater

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Ecotoxicological risk assessment of micropollutants from treated urban wastewater effluents for watercourses at a territorial scale: Application and comparison of two approaches

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Contaminants of emerging concerns (CECs) in a municipal wastewater treatment plant in Indonesia

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Neuroactive pharmaceuticals in estuaries: Occurrence and tissue-specific bioaccumulation in multiple fish species

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Human Health Relevance of Pharmaceutically Active Compounds in Drinking Water

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Transformation of the artificial sweetener acesulfame by UV light

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Seasonal and spatial variations in the occurrence, mass loadings and removal of compounds of emerging concern in the Slovene aqueous environment and environmental risk assessment

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Prediction of effluent quality in ICEAS-sequential batch reactor using feedforward artificial neural network

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Pharmaceuticals in water and sediment of small streams under the pressure of urbanization: Concentrations, interactions, and risks

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Multi-residue enantiomeric analysis of human and veterinary pharmaceuticals and their metabolites in environmental samples by chiral liquid chromatography coupled with tandem mass spectrometry detection

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