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Emerging Contaminants
Summary
This book provides a comprehensive overview of emerging contaminants including their classification, detection methods, environmental fate, and adverse effects on ecosystems and human health, with dedicated coverage of pesticides, antibiotics, and other synthetic compounds. It addresses analytical techniques for quantifying contaminants and assesses risks posed by these substances as they accumulate in water, soil, and biological systems.
Emerging Contaminants presents the reader with information on classification, recent studies, and adverse effects on the environment and human health of the main classes of contaminants. Emerging contaminants are synthetic or natural compounds and microorganisms produced and used by humans that cause adverse ecological and human health effects when they reach the environment. This book is organized into four sections that cover the classification of contaminants and the instrumental techniques used to quantify them, recent studies on pesticides, antibiotics as an important group of emerging contaminants, and studies of different classes of emerging contaminants such as polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs), microplastics, and others.