Antibiotics are frequently used in animals to treat sickness and prevent infection especially
in industrial meat production. Some of the antibiotics cannot be completely metabolized and,
as an unavoidable result, are excreted and thus end up in manure which is then spread in
the environment. Currently increasing amounts of manure is used in biogas production
before spreading the residuals on agricultural fields. In this study, the removal patterns of
sulfonamides (sulfadiazine, sulfamethizole, sulfamethoxazole) and macrolides …