Research Catalog

Title

Pharmaceuticals in the environment : sources, fate, effects, and risks / Klaus Kümmerer (ed.).

Publication

Berlin : Springer, ©2008.

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Details

Additional Authors

Kümmerer, Klaus, 1959-

Description

xxxi, 521 pages : illustrations (some color); 25 cm

Summary

"The study of pharmaceuticals in the environment as an area of research has only just taken off in recent years. Since the first edition was printed, many research articles on this subject have been published. It is exceedingly difficult for the individual, in particular those not acquainted with the field to establish trends and developments. Even specialists will appreciate this book, as it provides the reader with a well-founded up dated and enlarged overview that addresses the latest findings on the new topics in research. Following the resounding success of the first two editions, this new edition has been brought up to date and greatly extended. It includes the status of research, paying particular attention to sources and contamination of the environment, substance flows, effects, risk assessment, and risk management. In line with the newest developments worldwide there are now again contributions from well known and new international authors. This volume also caters for the new requirements confronting researchers, regulators students and other people all over the world interested in the topic since publication of the second edition."--Jacket.

Subject

• Drugs > Environmental aspects
• Drugs > Side effects
• Environmental monitoring
• Risk assessment
• Drug-Related Side Effects and Adverse Reactions
• Environmental Pollution > adverse effects
• Biodegradation, Environmental > drug effects
• Environmental Monitoring
• Risk Assessment
• risk assessment
• Environmental risk assessment
• Environmental toxicology
• Läkemedel > miljöaspekter
• Miljökemi

Note

• Earlier edition published 2004

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Pharmaceuticals in the environment -- a brief summary -- Special characteristics of pharmaceuticals related to environmental fate -- Drug production facilities -- an overlooked discharge source for pharmaceuticals to the environment -- Substance flows associated with medical care -- significance of different sources -- Pharmaceutical residues in Northern European environments : consequences and perspectives -- Antibiotics in the environment -- Veterinary antibiotics in dust : sources, environmental concentrarions, and possible health hazards -- Fate of veterinary medicines applied to soils -- Pharmaceuticals as environmental contaminants : modeling distribution and fate -- Environmental exposure modeling : applications of PhATE and GREAT-ER to human pharmaceuticals in the environmental -- Exposure assessment methods for veterinary and human-use medicines in the environment : PEC vs. MEC comparisons -- Effects of pharmaceuticals on aquatic organisms -- Another example of effects of pharmaceuticals on aquatic invertebrates : fluoxetine and ciprofloxacin -- Effects of antibiotics and virustatistics in the environment -- Realizing the potential benefits of small animal models for the aquatic hazard assessment of human pharmaceuticals : a conceptual approach -- Deterministic and probabilistic environmental risk assessment for Diazepam -- Comparison of prospective and retrospective environmental risk assessment of human pharmaceuticals -- Methodological aspects concerning the environmental risk assessment for medicinal products; research challenges -- Strategies for reducing the input of pharmaceuticals into the environment -- COST ACTION 636 Xenobiotics in the urban water cycle -- a network for collaboration within Europe -- Removal of pharmaceutical residues from contaminated raw water sources by membrane filtrarion -- Photooxidation as advanced oxidation treatment of hospital effluents -- Pharmaceuticals and environment : role of community pharmacies -- Mitigation of the pharmaceutical outlet into the environment -- experiences from Sweden -- Pharmaceutical waste.

ISBN

• 9783540746638
• 3540746633
• 3540746641 (canceled/invalid)
• 9783540746645 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

• 2008926949
• 99931829273

OCLC

• ocn232366227
• 232366227
• SCSB-9219936

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library