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Detection of Transformation Products of Emerging Contaminants

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Environmental research nowadays is focusing more and more on different categories of emerging contaminants, because of their increasing release into the environment, the lack of information regarding the occurrence and health effects of the parent compounds, and, even more, of their transformation products, and the need for the development and optimisation of analytical methods for their determination in environmental samples. Emerging contaminants and transformation products are detected by advanced analytical methods such as liquid chromatography (LC) or gas chromatography (GC) combined with tandem mass spectrometric (MS/MS) detection. The rapid development and improvement of these methods during the last few years provides the opportunity not only to determine trace levels of emerging pollutants in environmental samples, but also to identify and detect their transformation products. This is a particularly important step towards safeguarding environmental quality and human health.

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Nikolaou, A., Lofrano, G. (2012). Detection of Transformation Products of Emerging Contaminants. In: Lofrano, G. (eds) Green Technologies for Wastewater Treatment. SpringerBriefs in Molecular Science(). Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-1430-4_2

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