- Effects of the summer holiday season on UV filter and illicit drug concentrations in the Korean wastewater system and aquatic environment.
Effects of the summer holiday season on UV filter and illicit drug concentrations in the Korean wastewater system and aquatic environment.
Environmental pollution (Barking, Essex : 1987) (2017-05-21)
Ki Yong Kim, Kalu Ibe Ekpeghere, Hee-Jin Jeong, Jeong-Eun Oh
PMID28527425
ABSTRACT
Seasonal variations in the concentrations of eight ultraviolet (UV) filters and 22 illicit drugs including their metabolites in the Korean aquatic environment were investigated. Seawater samples from three beaches, water samples from two rivers, and influents and effluents from three wastewater treatment plants were analyzed. The UV filter concentrations in the seawater, river water, and effluent samples were 39.4-296, 35.4-117, and 6.84-51.1 ng L