Using Py-GC/MS to fingerprint additives associated with paper mill effluent toxicity episodes.

@article{Sithole2012UsingPT,
  title={Using Py-GC/MS to fingerprint additives associated with paper mill effluent toxicity episodes.},
  author={Bruce B. Sithole and Jorge Roberto Pimentel and Sharon J. Gibbons and Chuichi Watanabe},
  journal={Journal of environmental monitoring : JEM},
  year={2012},
  volume={14 10},
  pages={
          2729-38
        }
}
Understanding the cause of effluent toxicity is an important requirement for its prevention, remediation and return to compliance. One component of the strategy entails identification and fingerprinting of additives or components in additives that may be the cause of the toxicity episodes. A number of additives used in pulp and papermaking are polymeric compounds that are suspect in effluent toxicity. Their analysis and detection is difficult as they are not amenable to analysis by normal… 
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