Pharmaceutical Accumulation in the Environment

Prevention, Control, Health Effects, and Economic Impact
Herausgeber: Goldstein, Walter E

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book describes health impact concerns and technologies in place and in development, and offers steps leading to proposed solutions. It suggests ways to manage risks to meet challenges that include both private enterprise initiatives and public sector involvement. It proposes the type of controls needed to address pharmaceutical contamination, stressing bioreactors of particular types, augmented by the process modifications needed. The book covers the impact and changes needed at sites such as hospitals, pharmaceutical factories, waste treatment plants, water purification sites, farms, and households.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 262
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Juni 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 155mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 499g
• ISBN-13: 9781466517455
• ISBN-10: 146651745X
• Artikelnr.: 39615652

Autorenporträt

Walter E. Goldstein, PhD, PE, founded Goldstein Consulting Company in 1994. He founded and developed a forensic sciences DNA profiling laboratory at the University of Nevada-Las Vegas from 2003 to 2008. It was shortly after this that his first book for Taylor & Francis was published, Sick Building Syndrome and Related Illness: Prevention and Remediation of Mold Contamination. Dr. Goldstein holds a BS in chemical engineering from the Illinois Institute of Technology (1961), and an MS(1971) and PhD in chemical engineering from the University of Notre Dame (1973). He also holds an MBA from Michigan State University (1968).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction. An Insight into the Discovery of the Contamination of the
Environment and Drinking Water by Pharmaceuticals. Presence and Fate of
Pharmaceuticals in the Environment and in Drinking Water. Occurrence,
Effects, and Methods for Antibiotics and Illicit Drugs in the Environment.
Detection of Pharmaceuticals in the Environment: History of Use as a
Forensic Tool. Health Impact of Pharmaceuticals in the Environment and in
Drinking Water: Potential for Human and Environmental Risk. Health Impact
of Pharmaceuticals in the Environment and in Drinking Water: Analysis and
Research Needs. Effect of Antibiotics on Biological Wastewater Treatment
Processes. Wastewater Pharmaceuticals Minimization: Analysis of
Opportunities and Costs. Conclusions and Recommendations, Research
Opportunities, and Implementation of Measures to Control Environmental
Pharmaceuticals.