Description:Content: Introduction to contaminants of emerging concern in the environment: ecological and human health considerations / R. U. Halden -- Pharmaceutical ingredients in drinking water: overview of occurrence and significance of human exposure / C. G. Daughton -- Occurrence of pharmaceuticals in U.S. drinking water / Shane A. Snyder -- Trace organics in Arizona surface and wastewaters / C. Chiu and P. K. Westerhoff -- Illicit drugs as emerging contaminants / Sara Castiglioni and Ettore Zuccato -- Persistent organic pollutants in sewage sludge: levels, sources, and trends / Bradley O. Clarke and Nichola A. Porter -- U.S. EPA's 2006-2007 targeted national sewage sludge survey / Rick Stevens -- Pharmaceuticals and personal care products in U.S. biosolids / Kristin McClellan and Rolf U. Halden -- Removing steroids from contaminated waters using radical reactions / Stephen P. Mezyk ... [et al.] -- Transport of PPCPs and veterinary medicines from agricultural fields following application of biosolids or manure / Edward Topp ... [et al.] -- Environmental fate and hazards of the pharmaceutical diclofenac in aquatic environments / Jesper Svanfelt ... [et al.] -- Fate of caffeine in the environment and ecotoxicological considerations / Thomas Bruton ... [et al.] -- Perfluorinated chemicals in drinking and environmental waters / Paul C. Rumsby ... [et al.] -- Earthworms: diagnostic indicators of wastewater derived anthropogenic organic contaminants in terrestrial environments / Chad A. Kinney ... [et al.] -- Potential implications of amending agricultural soils with biosolids / Evelyn Walters and Rolf U. Halden -- Manifestation of ecotoxicity in parts per trillion contaminant levels in natural and simulated environmental settings / Hans Sanderson and Martin Rudbeck Jepsen -- Presence of pharmaceuticals and personal care products in the environment -- a concern for human health? / Sara Bachman Ducey and Amir Sapkota -- Pharmaceutical and personal care products in the environment and potential risks of emerging antibiotic resistence / Rebecca M. Coulborn, Erin Rees Clayton, and Allison E. Aiello -- Empirical models for predicting the occurrence and concentration of organic chemicals in biosolids / Randhir P. Deo and Rolf U. Halden -- Comparing the phenomenological and hydrodynamic modeling approaches for describing the rejection of emerging nonionic organic contaminants by a nanofiltration membrane / Christopher L. Bellona and Jörg E. Drewes -- Concentrations of hydrophobic organic pollutants in U.S. wastewater treatment plants and in receiving surface waters modeled from EPA biosolids monitoring data / Alex Weir ... [et al.] -- Assessment of the aquatic release and relevance of selected endogenous chemicals: androgens, thyroids and their in vivo metabolites / Usman Khan and Jim Nicell -- Assessment of the contribution of triclosan to dioxin emissions from sludge incineration in the U.S. using a mathematical model / K. D. Doudrick ... [et al.] -- Literature review of meta-analyses and pooled analyses of disinfection by-products in drinking water and cancer and reproductive health outcomes / Mark J. Nieuwenhuijsen ... [et al.] -- Impact of point-of-use water softening on sustainable water reclamation: case study of the greater Phoenix area / E. N. Daugherty ... [et al.] -- Bioassay guided fractionation (toxicity identification and evaluation) for the determination of estrogenic agents in environmental samples / Daryl Bulloch, Ramon Lavado, and Daniel Schlenk -- Fluorinated chemicals and the impacts of anthropogenic use / D. E. C. Adams and R. U. Halden.