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... Chlortetracycline (CTC) pharmaceutical residue with strong acidity and in high CTC concentration is a hazardous solid waste. There is a huge attention but few studies on whether and how the CTC raw residue (CRR) can be degraded in microbiological way. In this study, three self-screened fungi, LJ245, LJ302 and LJ318, were used and thoroughly investigated to remove CTC, strong acidity and biotoxicit ...
... Contaminants of Emerging Concern (CECs) in natural water pose risks to ecosystems. The concentration of CECs varies spatially and temporally, and their estimated ecotoxicities differ widely by toxicological studies. This study extensively reviewed literature on ecological risk assessment and proposed a probabilistic framework for assessing ecological risk and its uncertainties (aleatory and episte ...
activated sludge; ammonium; batch fermentation; biopolymers; bioreactors; bioremediation; chemical oxygen demand; community structure; drug residues; exposure duration; flocculation; humic acids; ibuprofen; image analysis; long term effects; microbial activity; microbial biomass; microbial communities; microbial proteins; microorganisms; polysaccharides; stress response; wastewater treatment
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... A Sequencing Batch Reactor (SBR) with activated sludge was operated with synthetic wastewater containing ibuprofen (IBU) to investigate the biomass stress-responses under long-term IBU exposure. There were 3 different phases: phase I as the control without IBU for 56 days, phase II (40 days), and phase III (60 days) containing IBU at 10 and 5 mg L⁻¹ each. The overall performance of the SBR as well ...
aquatic ecosystems; drug residues; ecotoxicology; environment; fecal bacteria; monsoon season; phosphates; rain; relative risk; risk assessment; rivers; seasonal variation; streams; surface water; temperature; water supply; India
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... The occurrence of pharmaceutical residues in the aquatic ecosystem is an emerging concern of environmentalists. This study primarily investigated the seasonal variation of high-priority pharmaceutical residues in the Yamuna River, accompanied by 22 drains discharge from different parts of Delhi. Five sampling sites were selected for analyzing high-priority pharmaceuticals along with physico-chemic ...
X-ray diffraction; catalytic activity; deamination; dehalogenation; drug residues; field experimentation; magnetic fields; pH; sodium bisulfite; water treatment
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... Construction of Bi₂FeNbO₇/bisulfite system for abatement of pharmaceutical residue was achieved. An attempt to synthesize Bi₂FeNbO₇ through hydrothermal technique was confirmed by X-ray diffraction. The magnetic field experiment revealed that Bi₂FeNbO₇ possessed a saturation magnetization of 6.99 emu/g, indicating magnetic attributes of Bi₂FeNbO₇. Scanning electron microscopy images showed that Bi ...
... In India, the dairy sector is an important component in rural livelihoods. To enhance production of milk, a crossbreeding strategy with exotic breeds was introduced in India in the 1960s. The unintended side effect of this strategy was a high incidence of diseases in cross-bred animals and therefore antibiotics had to be extensively used. This led to high drug-residues in the animal products like ...
chemical species; food chemistry; liquid chromatography; mass spectrometry; meat; methimazole; methylthiouracil; signal-to-noise ratio; thiouracil; thyroid function
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... Thyreostatic drugs (thyreostats) interfere with thyroid function and have been used illegally in animals slaughtered for food. Thyreostat use leads to poorer quality meat, and the drug residues can cause adverse effects in humans. These drugs, with the exception of thiouracil, do not occur naturally and require sensitive methodologies for their detection in animal tissues. Because thyreostats are ...
acetaminophen; acetone; adsorbents; adsorption; aerogels; drug residues; graphene oxide; hydrogen; manganese; nanospheres; pH; sorption isotherms; temperature; thermodynamics; wastewater; water pollution; China
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... Water contamination by non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, such as acetaminophen, is an emerging ecological concern. In this study, a new three-dimensional manganese dioxide-engrafted reduced graphene oxide (3D MnO₂/rGO) hybrid aerogel was developed for acetaminophen sequestration. The synthesis involved firstly the self-assembly of GO aerogel, followed by thermal reduction and in-situ MnO₂ gro ...
bisphenol A; caffeine; dietary exposure; drug residues; electrical conductivity; endocrine-disrupting chemicals; environmental fate; health effects assessments; hormones; pesticide residues; plasticizers; public water supply; residential housing; sulfamethoxazole; tap water; urban areas; water distribution; water pollution; water salinity
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... Contamination of endocrine disrupting compounds (EDCs) in tap water is an emerging global issue, and there are abundant influencing factors that have an ambivalent effect on their transportation and fate. Different housing types vary in terms of water distribution system operation and design, water consumption choices, and other hydraulic factors, which potentially affect the dynamics, loadings, an ...
antiviral agents; aquatic environment; drug residues; ecotoxicology; environmental fate; freshwater ecosystems; metabolites; monitoring; oseltamivir; risk; surface water; surveys; wastewater; wastewater treatment; water quality; France; Germany; Japan; North America; South America; Sub-Saharan Africa; United Kingdom
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... The environmental release of antiviral drugs is of considerable concern due to potential ecosystem alterations and the development of antiviral resistance. As a result, interest on their occurrence and fate in natural and engineered systems has grown substantially in recent years. The main scope of this review is to fill the void of information on the knowledge on the worldwide occurrence of antiv ...
advanced wastewater treatment; community health; drug residues; effluents; hospitals; hydrogen peroxide; ibuprofen; microorganisms; ofloxacin; oxidation; ozonation; ozone; pH; pollution control; sewage treatment; wastewater; water resources
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... Hospital effluents are the sources for complex high percentage of micropollutants and till date no specific treatment have been investigated for the removal of pollutants. These effluents and their complex characteristics pose resistance to unit operation which undergoes in hospital wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs). In other words such complex contaminants are unable to removed completely throu ...
analytical methods; drug residues; ecosystems; enantiomers; humans; optical isomerism; wastewater
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... Chiral pharmaceuticals (CPs) are widely used in different areas of human life, thus they are frequently detected in different ecosystems. However, before CPs reach the environment, wastewater is subjected to different treatment processes in order to remove them. Nevertheless, such processes may affect the chirality of CPs, thus it is very important to monitor CP levels during the wastewater treatm ...
accuracy; acetaminophen; cation exchange; ciprofloxacin; detection limit; drug residues; electrospray ionization mass spectrometry; frequency; hospitals; ketoprofen; lakes; monitoring; ofloxacin; precision; sampling; solid phase extraction; spectrometers; sulfamethoxazole; surface water; tandem mass spectrometry; trimethoprim; ultra-performance liquid chromatography; wastewater; Vietnam
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... In this study, an analytical method for the simultaneous determination of 7 major pharmaceutical residues in Vietnam, namely, carbamazepine, ciprofloxacin, ofloxacin, ketoprofen, paracetamol, sulfamethoxazole, and trimethoprim, in surface water and hospital wastewater has been developed. The method includes enrichment and clean-up steps by solid phase extraction using mix-mode cation exchange, fol ...
... Urban wastewater treatment plants (WWTP) are a major vector of highly ecotoxic contaminants of emerging concern (CECs) for urban and sub-urban streams. Ecotoxicological risk assessments (ERAs) provide essential information to public environmental authorities. Nevertheless, ERAs are mainly performed at very local scale (one or few WWTPs) and on pre-selected list of CECs. To cope with these limits, ...
Bernardo Duarte; Eduardo Feijão; Ricardo Cruz de Carvalho; Irina A. Duarte; Marisa Silva; Ana Rita Matos; Maria Teresa Cabrita; Sara C. Novais; Marco F. L. Lemos; João Carlos Marques; Isabel Caçador; Patrick Reis-Santos; Vanessa F. Fonseca
... Present demographic trends suggest a rise in the contributions of human pharmaceuticals into coastal ecosystems, underpinning an increasing demand to evaluate the ecotoxicological effects and implications of drug residues in marine risk assessments. Propranolol, a non-selective β-adrenoceptor blocker, is used worldwide to treat high blood pressure conditions and other related cardiovascular condit ...
... Rampant use of tetracycline in animal feed is a threat to food security, the environment, and human health because of the risk of drug residues. Therefore, it is necessary to establish a sensitive, efficient, and reliable method for qualitative and quantitative detection of tetracycline. In this paper, we synthesized fluorescent carbon dots (FCDs) by thermal cracking of crab shell waste, and obtai ...
... Ibuprofen, a non-steroidal anti-inflammatory pain reliever, is among pharmaceutical residues of environmental concern ubiquitously detected in wastewater effluents and receiving rivers. Thus, ibuprofen removal potentials and associated bacteria in the hyporheic zone sediments of an impacted river were investigated. Microbially mediated ibuprofen degradation was determined in oxic sediment microcos ...
active ingredients; drug residues; ecological footprint; effluents; electric energy consumption; electric power; energy; environmental impact; life cycle assessment; oxidation; photolysis; sulfates; ultraviolet radiation; wastewater; wastewater treatment; water pollution
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... Advanced oxidation processes (AOPs) have been proposed as tertiary treatments for municipal WWTP effluents. UV-activated peroxydisulfate (PDS) and peroxymonosulfate (PMS) are viable technological alternatives for treating secondary WWTP effluent containing PhACs. This article examines the feasibility of applying UV/PDS and UV/PMS technologies at pilot scale, assessing their energy and cost require ...
Vera Reinstadler; Verena Ausweger; Anna-Lena Grabher; Marco Kreidl; Susanne Huber; Julia Grander; Sandra Haslacher; Klaus Singer; Michael Schlapp-Hackl; Manuel Sorg; Harald Erber; Herbert Oberacher
COVID-19 infection; Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2; acetaminophen; alcohol abuse; alcohol drinking; amphetamine; biomarkers; cocaine; codeine; drug abuse; drug residues; epidemiological studies; health status; lifestyle; methamphetamines; municipal wastewater; pandemic; quarantine; social behavior; trimethoprim; Austria
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... The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has developed into a serious pandemic with millions of cases diagnosed worldwide. To fight COVID-19 pandemic, over 100 countries instituted either a full or partial lockdown, affecting billions of people. In Tyrol, first lockdown measures were taken on 10 March 2020. On 16 March 2020, a curfew went into force which ended on 1 May 2020. On 19 March 2020, Tyro ...
amphetamine; caffeine; cocaine; drug residues; excretion; foresters; humans; liquid chromatography; metabolites; methamphetamines; sewage; sewage treatment; solid phase extraction; stream flow; streams; sucralose; surface water; tandem mass spectrometry; wastewater; weather; California; Europe
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... Levels of amphetamine, methamphetamine, cocaine, and benzoylecgonine (BE), the metabolite of cocaine, were quantitated by solid phase extraction and liquid chromatography with tandem mass spectrometry (LC/MS/MS) in Forester Creek in San Diego County, CA, and in raw wastewater from the region’s sewage treatment plant. Drug residues in these surface waters were detected with 100% frequency. Mean con ...