Pharmaceuticals and Care Products in the Environment. Scientific and Regulatory Issues

Content: Pharmaceuticals and personal care products in the environment : overarching issues and overview / Christian G. Daughton -- Pharmaceuticals and metabolites as contaminants of the aquatic environment / Thomas Ternes -- Occurrence and fate of fluoroquinolone, macrolide, and sulfonamide antibiotics during wastewater treatment and in ambient waters in Switzerland / Alfredo C. Alder ... [et al.] -- Occurrence of pharmaceutical residues in sewage, river, ground, and drinking water in Greece and Berlin (Germany) / Th. Heberer ... [et al.] -- Pharmaceuticals in groundwater : clofibric acid beneath sewage farms south of Berlin, Germany / Traugott Scheytt ... [et al.] -- Phenazone analgesics in soil and groundwater below a municipal solid waste landfill / Marijan Ahel and Ivana Jeličić -- Pharmaceuticals and personal care products in the waters of Lake Mead, Nevada / [Shane A. Snyder ... et al.] -- Occurrence and fate of synthetic musks in the aquatic system of urban areas : polycyclic and nitro musks as environmental pollutants in surface waters, sediments, and aquatic biota / Th. Heberer, A. These, and U.A. Grosch -- Ecotoxicology of musks / D.R. Dietrich and Y.-J. Chou -- Environmental risks of musk fragrance ingredients / Froukje Balk, Han Blok, and Daniel Salvito -- Drugs in municipal sewage effluents : screening and biodegradation studies / Edda Möhle and Jörg W. Metzger -- Concerns about pharmaceuticals in water reuse, groundwater recharge, and animal waste / Jörg E. Drewes and Laurence S. Shore -- Iodinated X-ray contrast media in the aquatic environment : fate and effects / T. Steger-Hartmann, R. Länge, and H. Schweinfurth -- Multidrug-multixenobiotic transporters and their significance with respect to environmental levels of pharmaceuticals and personal care products / D. Epel and T. Smital -- Antidepressants in aquatic organisms : a wide range of effects / Peter P. Fong -- Veterinary medicines and soil quality : the Danish situation as an example / John Jensen -- Environmental risk assessment of pharmaceuticals : a proposal with special emphasis on European aspects / Jörg Römbke, Thomas Knacker and Hanka Teichmann -- Regulatory oversight for the environmental assessment of human and animal health drugs : environmental assessment regulations for drugs / Ranga Velagaleti and Michael Gill -- Degradation and depletion of pharmaceuticals in the environment / Ranga Velagaleti and Michael Gill -- Illicit drugs in municipal sewage : proposed new nonintrusive tool to heighten public awareness of societal use of illicit-abused drugs and their potential for ecological consequences / Christian G. Daughton.