The Management of Human Pharmaceuticals in the Environment

Abstract: Pharmaceuticals and their metabolites, collectively known as pharmaceutically active compounds (PhACs), have been detected in surface water, groundwater, and drinking water, in a number of countries, since the mid-1990s. Pharmaceuticals can be used in human or veterinary medicine; human...

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Main Author: Doerr-MacEwen, Nora Ann
Format: Others
Language:en
Published: 2007
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10012/2751