EU-wide survey of polar organic persistent pollutants in European river waters

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2003, Volume XL

Kolpin, 2002, Pharmaceuticals, hormones, and other organic wastewater contaminants in U.S. streams, 1999–2000: a national reconnaissance, Environ. Sci. Technol, 36, 1202, 10.1021/es011055j

Konstantinou, 2006, The status of pesticide pollution in surface waters (rivers and lakes) of Greece. Part I. Review on occurrence and levels, Environ. Poll, 141, 555, 10.1016/j.envpol.2005.07.024

Loos, 2007, Polar herbicides, pharmaceuticals, perfluorooctansulfonate (PFOS), perfluorooctanoate (PFOA), nonylphenol and its carboxylates and ethoxylates in surface and tap waters around Lake Maggiore in Northern Italy, Anal. Bioanal. Chem., 387, 1469, 10.1007/s00216-006-1036-7

Loos, 2008, Analysis of perfluorooctanoate (PFOA) and other perfluorinated compounds (PFCs) in the River Po watershed in N-Italy, Chemosphere, 71, 306, 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2007.09.022

Loos, 2008, Laboratory intercomparison study for the analysis of nonyl- and octylphenol in river water, Trends Anal. Chem., 27, 89, 10.1016/j.trac.2007.10.011

McLachlan, 2007, Riverine discharge of perfluorinated carboxylates from the European Continent, Environ. Sci. Technol, 41, 7260, 10.1021/es071471p

Moldovan, 2006, Occurrences of pharmaceutical and personal care products as micropollutants in rivers from Romania, Chemosphere, 64, 1808, 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2006.02.003

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Peschka, 2006, Occurrence and fate of barbiturates in the aquatic environment, Environ. Sci. Technol, 40, 7200, 10.1021/es052567r

Planas, 2006, Analysis of pesticides and metabolites in Spanish surface waters by isotope dilution gas chromatography/mass spectrometry with previous automated solid-phase extraction. Estimation of the uncertainty of the analytical results, J. Chromatogr. A, 1131, 242, 10.1016/j.chroma.2006.07.091

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Quintana, 2001, Monitoring of pesticides in drinking and related waters in NE Spain with a multiresidue SPE-GC-MS method including an estimation of the uncertainty of the analytical results, J. Chromatogr. A, 938, 3, 10.1016/S0021-9673(01)01168-2

Reemtsma, 2006, Polar pollutants entry into the water cycle by municipal wastewater: a European perspective, Environ. Sci. Technol, 40, 5451, 10.1021/es060908a

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Roberts, 2006, The occurrence of selected pharmaceuticals in wastewater effluent and surface waters of the lower Tyne catchment, Sci. Total Environ, 356, 143, 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2005.04.031

Schwarzenbach, 2006, The challenge of micropollutants in aquatic systems, Science, 313, 1072, 10.1126/science.1127291

Stachel, 2003, Xenoestrogens in the River Elbe and its tributaries, Environ. Poll, 124, 497, 10.1016/S0269-7491(02)00483-9

Tamtam, 2008, Occurrence and fate of antibiotics in the Seine River in various hydrological conditions, Sci. Total Environ, 393, 84, 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2007.12.009

Tixier, 2003, Occurrence and fate of carbamazepine, clofibric acid, diclofenac, ibuprofen, ketoprofen, and naproxen in surface waters, Environ. Sci. Technol, 37, 1061, 10.1021/es025834r

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Vethaak, 2005, An integrated assessment of estrogenic contamination and biological effects in the aquatic environment of The Netherlands, Chemosphere, 59, 511, 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2004.12.053

Weiss, 2006, Discharge of three benzotriazole corrosion inhibitors with municipal wastewater and improvements by membrane bioreactor treatment and ozonation, Environ. Sci. Technol, 40, 7193, 10.1021/es061434i

Wiegel, 2004, Pharmaceuticals in the River Elbe and its tributaries, Chemosphere, 57, 107, 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2004.05.017

Yamashita, 2004, Analysis of perfluorinated acids at parts-per-quadrillion levels in seawater using liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry, Environ. Sci. Technol, 38, 5522, 10.1021/es0492541

Yamashita, 2008, Perfluorinated acids as novel chemical tracers of global circulation of ocean waters, Chemosphere, 70, 1247, 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2007.07.079