The role of disinfectants and sanitizers during COVID-19 pandemic: advantages and deleterious effects on humans and the environment

K Dhama, SK Patel, R Kumar, R Masand… - … Science and Pollution …, 2021 - Springer
Disinfectants and sanitizers are essential preventive agents against the coronavirus disease
2019 (COVID-19) pandemic; however, the pandemic crisis was marred by undue hype …

Occurrence, transformation, bioaccumulation, risk and analysis of pharmaceutical and personal care products from wastewater: a review

U Anand, B Adelodun, C Cabreros, P Kumar… - Environmental …, 2022 - Springer
Almost all aspects of society from food security to disease control and prevention have
benefited from pharmaceutical and personal care products, yet these products are a major …

Dry surface biofilms in the food processing industry: An overview on surface characteristics, adhesion and biofilm formation, detection of biofilms, and dry sanitization …

VPP Alonso, MPMBB Gonçalves… - … Reviews in Food …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Bacterial biofilm formation in low moisture food processing (LMF) plants is related to matters
of food safety, production efficiency, economic loss, and reduced consumer trust. Dry …

[HTML][HTML] A review of plants formaldehyde metabolism: Implications for hazardous emissions and phytoremediation

WX Peng, X Yue, H Chen, NL Ma, Z Quan, Q Yu… - Journal of Hazardous …, 2022 - Elsevier
The wide use of hazardous formaldehyde (CH 2 O) in disinfections, adhesives and wood-
based furniture leads to undesirable emissions to indoor environments. This is highly …

Disinfectants against SARS-CoV-2: a review

S Xiao, Z Yuan, Y Huang - Viruses, 2022 - mdpi.com
The pandemic due to Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)
has emerged as a serious global public health issue. Besides the high transmission rate …

Pseudoscience and fraudulent products for COVID-19 management

VP Chavda, SS Sonak, NK Munshi… - … Science and Pollution …, 2022 - Springer
As of now, the COVID-19 pandemic has become uncontrolled and is spreading widely
throughout the world. Additionally, new variants of the mutated viral variants have been …

Residual chlorine persistently changes antibiotic resistance gene composition and increases the risk of antibiotic resistance in sewer systems

J Zhang, Z Xu, W Chu, F Ju, W Jin, P Li, R Xiao - Water Research, 2023 - Elsevier
During the COVID-19 pandemic, excessive amounts of disinfectants and their transformation
products entered sewer systems worldwide, which was an extremely rare occurrence before …

Shaping the subway microbiome through probiotic-based sanitation during the COVID-19 emergency: A pre–post case–control study

M D'Accolti, I Soffritti, F Bini, E Mazziga, C Cason… - Microbiome, 2023 - Springer
Background The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the extent to which the public
transportation environment, such as in subways, may be important for the transmission of …

Disinfectant-induced hormesis: An unknown environmental threat of the application of disinfectants to prevent SARS-CoV-2 infection during the COVID-19 pandemic?

E Agathokleous, D Barceló, I Iavicoli, A Tsatsakis… - Environmental …, 2022 - Elsevier
Massive additional quantities of disinfectants have been applied during the COVID-19
pandemic as infection preventive and control measures. While the application of …

Pollution free UV-C radiation to mitigate COVID-19 transmission

A Kumar, A Raj, A Gupta, S Gautam, M Kumar… - Gondwana …, 2023 - Elsevier
The high rate of transmission of the COVID-19 virus has brought various types of disinfection
techniques, for instance, hydrogen peroxide vaporization, microwave generating steam, UV …