Human pharmaceuticals in the environment : current and future perspectives / Bryan W. Brooks, Duane B. Huggett, editors.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Perspectives on Human Pharmaceuticals in the Environment / Bryan W. Brooks, Jason P. Berninger, Alejandro J. Ramirez and Duane B. Huggett -- Environmental Risk Assessment for Human Pharmaceuticals: The Current State of International Regulations / J✹g Oliver Straub and Thomas H. Hutchinson -- Regulation of Pharmaceuticals in the Environment: The USA / Emily A. McVey -- Environmental Fate of Human Pharmaceuticals / Alistair B. A. Boxall and Jon F. Ericson -- Environmental Comparative Pharmacology: Theory and Application / Lina Gunnarsson, Erik Kristiansson and D. G. Joakim Larsson -- A Look Backwards at Environmental Risk Assessment: An Approach to Reconstructing Ecological Exposures / David Lattier, James M. Lazorchak, Florence Fulk and Mitchell Kostich -- Considerations and Criteria for the Incorporation of Mechanistic Sublethal Endpoints into Environmental Risk Assessment for Biologically Active Compounds / Richard A. Brain and Bryan W. Brooks -- Human Health Risk Assessment for Pharmaceuticals in the Environment: Existing Practice, Uncertainty, and Future Directions / E. Spencer Williams and Bryan W. Brooks -- Wastewater and Drinking Water Treatment Technologies / Daniel Gerrity and Shane Snyder -- Pharmaceutical Take Back Programs / Kati I. Stoddard and Duane B. Huggett.