The aim of this work is to demonstrate a robust analytical method for the analysis of a broad range of pharmaceutical and personal care products that can be used for analysis of wastewater and impacted waterways from leaking sewers. Due to the high diversity of compounds displaying a wide variance of chemical structures, many previous studies have elected to perform a combination of analytical methods targeting specific families of compounds. While this strategy can be advantageous for the analysis of each target group, the time-consuming and labour-intensive nature of the analytical procedures makes numerous methodologies undesirable when the goal is to make an overall assessment of pharmaceutical and personal care products present in environmental samples and wastewater treatment plants. This work proposes a simplified methodology adapted from previously published analytical methods that can be applied to wastewater and water samples for the detection of greater than 50 compounds in all major chemical classes.

New analytical method for analysis of a broad range of chemicals found in Australian waters and wastewaters

253rd National Meeting (2017)

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