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Presentation Slides: Pharmaceuticals in Municipal Wastewater

This webinar described the estimates of potential risks of pharmaceuticals in wastewater to people as well as aquatic life by combining aquatic concentration information with available dose-response data. This analysis includes data from a study of pharmaceutical concentrations in effluent samples from 50 very large municipal wastewater plants located across the United States.

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