1. Edition - July 2006
175.- Euro
2006. XX, 348 Pages, Hardcover
88 Fig., 65 Tab. 
- Handbook/Reference Book -
ISBN-10: 3-527-31297-8
ISBN-13: 978-3-527-31297-9 - Wiley-VCH, Weinheim






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Short description
Here, the authors provide the first in-depth and comprehensive reference. All chapters are uniformly structured covering properties, pollution sources, occurrence in waste water, surface water, groundwater as well as water treatment aspects.

From the contents
Analytical Methods for Polar Pollutants (Thorsten Reemtsma and José Benito Quintana)
Residues of Pharmaceuticals from Human Use (Thomas Heberer and Thomas Ternes)
Antibiotics for Human Use (Radka Alexy and Klaus Kümmerer)
Iodinated X-ray Contrast Media (Anke Putschew and Martin Jekel)
Veterinary Pharmaceuticals (Gerd Hamscher)
Polar Herbicides and Metabolites (Rita Fobbe, Birgit Kuhlmann, Jürgen Nolte, Gudrun Preuß, Christian Skark, and Ninette Zullei-Seibert)
Aminopolycarboxylate Complexing Agents (Carsten K. Schmidt and Heinz-Jürgen Brauch)
Amines (Hilmar Börnick and Torsten Schmidt)
Surfactant Metabolites (Thomas P. Knepper and Peter Eichhorn)
Trihalomethanes (THMs), Haloacetic Acids (HAAs), and Emerging Disinfection By-products in Drinking Water (Christian Zwiener)
Toxicology and Risk Assessment of Pharmaceuticals (Daniel R. Dietrich, Bettina C. Hitzfeld, and Evelyn O'Brien)
Assessment and Management of Chemicals - How Should Persistent Polar Pollutants be Regulated? (Klaus Günter Steinhäuser and Steffi Richter )