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Contaminants of emerging concern

Term · Environment · MLC-T-ENV-006355

Pharmaceuticals, personal care products and other chemicals that are being discovered in water that previously had not been detected or are being detected at levels that may be significantly different than expected. The risk to human health and the environment associated with the presence, frequency of occurrence or source of these contaminants may not be known.

Table 1. Record
IdentifierMLC-T-ENV-006355
FieldEnvironment
SubjectEcosystems
ReferencesChesapeake Bay Glossary
Record as JSON
{
  "id": "MLC-T-ENV-006355",
  "term": "Contaminants of emerging concern",
  "field": "Environment",
  "definition": "Pharmaceuticals, personal care products and other chemicals that are being discovered in water that previously had not been detected or are being detected at levels that may be significantly different than expected. The risk to human health and the environment associated with the presence, frequency of occurrence or source of these contaminants may not be known.",
  "subject": "Ecosystems",
  "references": [
    "Chesapeake Bay Glossary"
  ],
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/environment/contaminants-of-emerging-concern/"
}

Record 6,355 of 30,736 in Environment terminology (MLC-0121). Request the full dataset.