Development of advanced analytical methodologies for the detection and identification of emerging contaminants and their biodegradation products from environmental factors (water, soil, sewage sludge) and biota

Abstract

The EMERGMET Project is focused on a major interest topic for human health and also for environmental protection, namely the increasing degree of contamination of water, soil, sewage sludge and biota with emergent xenobiotic compounds. The main project objective is development of new and complex analytical methodologies comprising extraction, purification and concentration methods together with sensitive and specific instrumental methods, all of them employed to determine different representative groups of emergent contaminants and metabolites from relevant and complex matrices: surface and waste water, soil, sewage sludge and biota.