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Personal Care Compounds in the Environment

Pathways, Fate and Methods for Determination

Bester, Kai

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1. Edition December 2006
XVIII, 245 Pages, Hardcover
103 Pictures
58 tables
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The first comprehensive treatment of the problem covers the most important classes of toxic chemicals from personal care compounds, including data on toxicity and bioaccumulation in various ecosystems. Rounded off by discussing strategies to control and remove these substances.

ISBN: 978-3-527-31567-3
Wiley-VCH, Weinheim

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Here, the most important classes of toxic chemicals from personal care compounds are systematically covered, from cosmetics to plastics additives to pharmaceuticals. For each substance, data on toxicity and bioaccumulation in various ecosystems are given.
This first comprehensive treatment of personal care environmental toxins is rounded off by a discussion of strategies in wastewater treatment to control and remove these substances.

INTRODUCTION
General Considerations
An Introduction into Sewage Treatment Plants Functions
ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES (SOURCES AND PATHWAYS)
Synthetic Fragrance Compounds in the Environment
The Bactericide Triclosan and its Transformation Product Methyl-Triclosan in the Aquatic Environment
UV-Filters
Organophosphate Flame Retardants and Plasticisers
Endocrine Disrupting Agents
Diverse Comounds
ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY METHODS
Wastewater
Seawater
Sewage Sludges
DISCUSSION
Sewage Treatment Plants
Limnic Samples
Marine Samples
Concluding Discussions
SUMMARY
Kai Bester is Professor for Analytical and Environmental Chemistry at the University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany. He studied chemistry at the University of Hamburg, obtaining his PhD in 1995. Before joining the University of Duisburg-Essen, he worked as a post-doc at the Technical University of Aachen and at the University of Dortmund. Professor Bester's primary research interests focus on the environmental contamination by antibiotics, fragrances and flame retardants as well as pharmaceuticals, and their analysis by mass spectrometric methods.

K. Bester, University Duisburg-Essen, Germany