Do cemeteries emit drugs? A case study from southern Germany

Autor: Torsten Dame, Matthias Graw, Sabine Fiedler
Rok vydání: 2017
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Zdroj: Environmental science and pollution research international. 25(6)
ISSN: 1614-7499
Popis: The risk of earth burials for the environment and public health is a matter of controversial debate. The aim of the present study is to characterise the drainage of cemeteries with regard to the concentration of a number of pharmaceuticals and to the soil’s hydrochemical properties, and to discuss these data in comparison with data obtained for surface waters located upstream of the cemeteries. Of the 12 drainage samples analysed using LC-ESI-MS/MS, seven contained carbamazepine (
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