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Neuropsychiatric pharmaceuticals and illicit drugs in wastewater treatment plants: a review

Alexandros G. Asimakopoulos A and Kurunthachalam Kannan A B
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A Wadsworth Center, New York State Department of Health, and Department of Environmental Health Sciences, School of Public Health, State University of New York at Albany, Empire State Plaza, PO Box 509, Albany, NY 12201-0509, USA.

B Corresponding author. Email: kurunthachalam.kannan@health.ny.gov




Dr Kurunthachalam Kannan was born in Mettupalayam, India. He received his Ph.D. in Environmental Chemistry and Ecotoxicology from Ehime University, Japan, in 1994. He is currently the Chief of the Organic Analytical Laboratory at Wadsworth Center, New York State Department of Health, Albany, New York, USA. He holds a joint appointment as a Professor at the Department of Environmental Health Sciences, School of Public Health, State University of New York at Albany. Dr Kannan’s research interests are in understanding sources, pathways and distribution of persistent organic pollutants in the environment.



Dr Alexandros G. Asimakopoulos was born in Athens, Greece in 1986. He received his Ph.D. in Chemistry in 2014 from the Department of Chemistry of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece. Currently, he is a research affiliate at Wadsworth Center, New York State Department of Health, Albany, New York, USA. His current studies include environmental, pharmaceutical and biomonitoring trace level analysis. His research is focussed on understanding environmental sources, pathways, distribution, dynamics and fate of chemical pollutants in biological and environmental media.

Environmental Chemistry 13(4) 541-576 https://doi.org/10.1071/EN15202
Submitted: 26 September 2015  Accepted: 20 February 2016   Published: 12 April 2016



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