Pharmaceuticals and Personal Care Products in the Environment - Scientific and Regulatory Issues

Klappentext This volume breaks new ground in applying the current body of knowledge in the study of pharmaceuticals, personal care products and their environmental impact to the assessment of the magnitude and extent of the use of illicit drugs at the local community level. It offers new insights on the use of environmental monitoring and includes discussion on waste treatment, ecotoxicological issues, and risk assessment. Zusammenfassung This volume breaks new ground in applying the current body of knowledge in the study of pharmaceauticals, personal care products and their environmental impact to the assessment of the magnitude and extent of the use of illicit drugs at the local community level. It offers new insights on the use of environmental monitoring and includes discussion on waste treatment, ecotoxicological issues, and risk assessment.

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• Authors: Christian G. Daughton, Christian G. Jones-Lepp Daughton
• Assisted by: Christian G. Daughton (Editor), Christian G. (Chief Daughton (Editor), Daughton Christian G. (Editor), Tammy L. Jones-Lepp (Editor), Tammy L. (Research Chemist Jones-Lepp (Editor), Jones-Lepp Tammy L. (Editor)
• Publisher: American chemical society
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.08.2001
• EAN: 9780841237391
• ISBN: 978-0-8412-3739-1
• No. of pages: 416
• Series: ACS Symposium Series; ACS Symposium; ACS Symposium Series; ACS Symposium
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Pharmacy; Nature / Environmental Conservation & Protection, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Disease & Health Issues, MEDICAL / Pharmacology, SCIENCE / Philosophy & Social Aspects, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Social Aspects, Drug & substance abuse: social aspects, Pollution & threats to the environment, Pharmacology, Impact of science & technology on society, Impact of science and technology on society, Pharmaceutical technology, Pollution and threats to the environment, Drugs and alcohol: social aspects, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Technology Studies, Pharmaceutical chemistry and technology, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Pharmaceutical