Caffeine, an anthropogenic marker for wastewater comtamination of surface waters.

By Ignaz I Buerge, T. Poiger, M. D. Müller, H. Buser. Environmental Science and Technology, 2003

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Subfields: Analytical Chemistry, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Pollution

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Citations in the corpus

• Occurrence and removal of antibiotics, hormones and several other pharmaceuticals in wastewater treatment plants of the largest industrial city of Korea. (2011, background): “, 2005; Spongberg and Witter, 2008), which might be due to universal use of caffeine, such as coffee, tea, coke and chocolate, regardless of pharmaceutical preferences in each country (Buerge et al., 2003).”
• Emerging organic contaminants in groundwater: A review of sources, fate and occurrence. (2012, background): “EOC tracers that have been used in surface and groundwater systems include Gd (NMR source) caffeine, gemfibrozil, carbamazepine and nicotine derivatives (Seiler et al., 1999; Buerge et al., 2003, 2008; Clara et al., 2004).”
• Fecal source tracking, the indicator paradigm, and managing water quality. (2007, background): “Wastewater treatment efficiently removes some chemical markers such as caffeine (Buerge et al., 2003, 2006) but not others.”