eng URI http://hdl.handle.net/10795/3163 water treatment water pollution analytical chemistry Emerging pollutants are thought to be responsible for the most significant share of environmental, human health and economic risk. Although the universe of chemical pollutants is enormous, we only monitor and have studied a minor fraction. The study of the fate of the emerging pollutants and their transformation products in wastewater-treatment plants (WWTP) is of paramount importance, since it can provide valuable information on the human consumption of various drugs. Sewage epidiomiology is the new field that was develloped for the estimation of illicit drug use based on measurements of urinary excreted illicit drugs and their metabolites in untreated wastewater. Within this approach, human metabolic excretion products resulting from drug consumption are rapidly collected and pooled by the sewage systems, providing valuable evidence of the amount and type of drug consumed by a population. The main objective of this research is the contribution to the current knowledge on the actual burden of micropollutants on the environment and on the effect they have on the human health. 32 pp. LOMv1.0 creator LOMv1.0subject matter expert LOMv1.0 publisher LOMv1.0 Project Final Beneficiary LOMv1.0 Project Executing Organisation 2015 Digital Library of the Operational Programme "Education and Lifelong Learning" abstract types Text Wastewater Liquid chromatography Sewage sludge Transformation products Biotransformation Chlorination Emerging pollutants Pharmaceuticals 2174479 application/pdf http://repository.edulll.gr/edulll/bitstream/10795/3163/2/3163_5.3%20Report%20Ministry%20of%20Health.pdf URI http://hdl.handle.net/10795/3163 LOMv1.0creator 2016-05-17T08:00:06Z LOMv1.0validator 2016-05-17T08:00:06Z LOMv1.0 gre no no Copyright EYD-EPEDBM (Operational Programme "Education and Lifelong Learning")