Fluoroquinolone antibiotics: an emerging class of environmental micropollutants

X Van Doorslaer, J Dewulf, H Van Langenhove… - Science of the Total …, 2014 - Elsevier
The aim of this review paper is to provide a comprehensive overview of different chemical
and environmental aspects concerning fluoroquinolone antibiotics as emerging …

Microwave-assisted extraction of pharmaceuticals, personal care products and industrial contaminants in the environment

M Llompart, M Celeiro, T Dagnac - TrAC Trends in Analytical Chemistry, 2019 - Elsevier
Microwave-assisted extraction (MAE) is a well-established automated green extraction
technique, offering many advantages such as the combined reduction of the extraction time …

Applications of nonconventional green extraction technologies in process industries: Challenges, limitations and perspectives

G Fomo, TN Madzimbamuto, TV Ojumu - Sustainability, 2020 - mdpi.com
This study reviewed five different nonconventional technologies which are aligned with
green concepts of product recovery from raw materials on industrial scale, with minimal …

Recent advances in microwave-assisted extraction of trace organic pollutants from food and environmental samples

H Wang, J Ding, N Ren - TrAC Trends in Analytical Chemistry, 2016 - Elsevier
In recent years, microwave-assisted extraction (MAE) has attracted growing interest, as it is
an effective method for the rapid extraction of a number of trace organic pollutants from food …

Generation and characterization of quinolone-specific DNA aptamers suitable for water monitoring

C Reinemann, UF Von Fritsch, S Rudolph… - Biosensors and …, 2016 - Elsevier
Quinolones are antibiotics that are accredited in human and veterinary medicine but are
regularly used in high quantities also in industrial livestock farming. Since these compounds …

Occurrence, sources and risk assessment of fluoroquinolones in dumpsite soil and sewage sludge from Chennai, India

S Arun, RM Kumar, J Ruppa, M Mukhopadhyay… - Environmental …, 2020 - Elsevier
Soil and sludge are major reservoirs of organic compounds such as fluoroquinolones (FQs)
which are broad-spectrum antibacterial agents. Hence, we monitored three major FQs …

Determination of antibiotics and other veterinary drugs in the solid phase of pig manure

M Argüeso-Mata, S Bolado, JJ Jiménez… - Chemosphere, 2021 - Elsevier
The presence of residues of veterinary pharmaceuticals in farm wastewaters such as pig
slurry represents a problem that needs to be tackled to avoid further contamination of …

Advances in the analysis of legal and illegal drugs in the aquatic environment

P Vazquez-Roig, C Blasco, Y Picó - TrAC Trends in Analytical Chemistry, 2013 - Elsevier
We review the current methods developed for the analysis of legal and illegal drugs (LIDs)
and their metabolites in environmental samples. We discuss the advantages and the pitfalls …

Determination of steroid hormones in fish tissues by microwave-assisted extraction coupled to ultra-high performance liquid chromatography tandem mass …

R Guedes-Alonso, Z Sosa-Ferrera… - Food chemistry, 2017 - Elsevier
Steroid hormones produce adverse effects on biota as well as bioaccumulation in fish and
seafood, making it necessary to develop methodologies to evaluate these compounds in …

Simultaneous determination of 32 antibiotics and 12 pesticides in sediment using ultrasonic-assisted extraction and high performance liquid chromatography-tandem …

M Chen, Q Yi, J Hong, L Zhang, K Lin, D Yuan - Analytical methods, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
A reliable method was developed for the simultaneous extraction and determination of
sixteen sulfonamides (SAs), nine quinolones (QLs), three macrolides (MLs), four …