Occurrence and spatial distribution of pharmaceuticals and personal care products (PPCPs) in the aquatic environment, their characteristics, and adopted legislations

HB Hawash, AA Moneer, AA Galhoum… - Journal of Water …, 2023 - Elsevier
Pharmaceuticals and personal care products (PPCPs) residues are known to occur widely in
the aquatic environments of industrialized and developing countries. Considerable progress …

[HTML][HTML] Pharmaceuticals in the aquatic environment: A review on eco-toxicology and the remediation potential of algae

M Hejna, D Kapuścińska, A Aksmann - International journal of …, 2022 - mdpi.com
The pollution of the aquatic environment has become a worldwide problem. The widespread
use of pesticides, heavy metals and pharmaceuticals through anthropogenic activities has …

Occurrence and removal of pharmaceuticals in wastewater treatment plants

OFS Khasawneh, P Palaniandy - Process Safety and Environmental …, 2021 - Elsevier
Pharmaceutical compounds, such as antibiotics, nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs
(NSAIDs), anticonvulsants, β-blocker, etc. have emerged as new classes of water pollutants …

Occurrence of antibiotics and risk of antibiotic resistance evolution in selected Kenyan wastewaters, surface waters and sediments

P Kairigo, E Ngumba, LR Sundberg, A Gachanja… - Science of the Total …, 2020 - Elsevier
Active pharmaceutical ingredients, especially antibiotics, are micropollutants whose
continuous flow into hydrological cycles has the potential to mediate antibiotic resistance in …

Organic micropollutants in a large wastewater treatment plant: what are the benefits of an advanced treatment by activated carbon adsorption in comparison to …

R Guillossou, J Le Roux, R Mailler, E Vulliet, C Morlay… - Chemosphere, 2019 - Elsevier
Several advanced treatments, such as ozonation or activated carbon adsorption, are
currently considered for the removal of organic micropollutants (OMPs) in wastewater …

[HTML][HTML] Biochar-mediated removal of pharmaceutical compounds from aqueous matrices via adsorption

S Chauhan, T Shafi, BK Dubey… - Waste Disposal & …, 2023 - Springer
Pharmaceutical is one of the noteworthy classes of emerging contaminants. These
biologically active compounds pose a range of deleterious impacts on human health and the …

Presence of pharmaceuticals and their metabolites in wild-living aquatic organisms–current state of knowledge

K Świacka, J Maculewicz, D Kowalska, M Caban… - Journal of Hazardous …, 2022 - Elsevier
In the last decades an increasing number of studies has been published concerning
contamination of aquatic ecosystems with pharmaceuticals. Yet, the distribution of these …

Pharmaceutical pollution of hospital effluents and municipal wastewaters of Eastern Canada

MA Vaudreuil, SV Duy, G Munoz, S Sauvé - Science of the Total …, 2022 - Elsevier
Quantification of drugs residues in wastewaters of different sources could help better
understand contamination pathways, eventually leading to effluent regulation. However …

Comprehensive investigation of a wide range of pharmaceuticals and personal care products in urban and hospital wastewaters in Greece

M Papageorgiou, I Zioris, T Danis, D Bikiaris… - Science of the Total …, 2019 - Elsevier
Detection and quantification of Pharmaceutical and Personal care products (PPCPs) in
wastewaters and aqueous samples is crucial in terms of environmental monitoring and risk …

Adsorbents and removal strategies of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs from contaminated water bodies

NY Mlunguza, S Ncube, PN Mahlambi… - Journal of …, 2019 - Elsevier
In the past few decades, there has been a rapid growth in the number of published articles
that have focused on the environmental monitoring of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs …