Non-polar contaminants in estuarine watersnew extraction methods and passive sampling choices

Résumé

The huge amounts of anthropogenic organic micro-pollutants released to environmental waters due to human daily activities have bequeathed many countries the legacy of organic pollution in water. Their persistence in the aquatic environments disrupsts the natural processes and thus, the need of a continous monitoring of these contaminants is endlessly revealed in several international environmental legislations. Therefore, the principal aim of this work is the development of analytical methods to determine priority and emerging organic pollutants in environmental water samples, mainly in estuarine and effluent water from WWTPs.