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JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING
Volume 14, Issue 5, Pages 1391-1399Publisher
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/c2em10950f
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- Katholischer Akademischer Auslanderdienst (KAAD)
- Institute of Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences at the Goethe University Frankfurt am Main
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The presence of the anesthetic lidocaine (LDC), the analgesic tramadol (TRA), the antidepressant venlafaxine (VEN) and the metabolites O-desmethyltramadol (ODT) and O-desmethylvenlafaxine (ODV) was investigated in wastewater treatment plant (WWTP) effluents, in surface waters and in groundwater. The analytes were detected in all effluent samples and in only 64% of the surface water samples. The mean concentrations of the analytes in effluent samples from WWTPs with wastewater from only households and hospitals were 107 (LDC), 757 (TRA), 122 (ODT), 160 (VEN) and 637 ng L-1 (ODV), while the mean concentrations in effluents from WWTPs treating additionally wastewater from pharmaceutical industries as indirect dischargers were for some pharmaceuticals clearly higher. WWTP effluents were identified as important sources of the analyzed pharmaceuticals and their metabolites in surface waters. The concentrations of the compounds found in surface waters ranged from
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