“…Bearing all this information in mind, it is not surprising that numerous methods have been developed for the determination of these compounds in environmental water samples. In regard to sample treatment, solid-phase extraction (SPE) using polymeric balanced polar/non-polar sorbents is the most common technique for extracting BTRs and BTs from tap water [10,11], river water [10][11][12], influent and effluent wastewater [10,[12][13][14] and seawater [15,16]. More significantly, Herrero et al [17] optimised a SPE method for the extraction of five BTRs, four BTs and five BSAs from river, influent and effluent wastewaters, obtaining recovery values between 75 and 106% with a matrix effect of less than 20%.…”