Anastasia D. Nikolaou

TL;DR: An overview of recent scientific research on the sources, occurrence, and fate of pharmaceuticals in water and wastewater is provided.

TL;DR: This review tries to present part of the knowledge that is currently available with regard to the occurrence of pharmaceutical residues in aquatic matrices, the progress made during the last several years on identification of such compounds down to trace levels, and of new, previously unidentified, pharmaceuticals such as illicit drugs, metabolites, and photo-products.

TL;DR: In this article, an updated review on EDCs and their removal by photocatalysis (PC) and ultrasound oxidation (US) from aqueous spiked solutions and wastewater is presented.

TL;DR: The focus of environmental analysis and determination of chemicals in the environment has recently been extended from the more classical pollutants to new contaminant categories including pharmaceuticals as mentioned in this paper, which is attributed mainly to the development of new analytical techniques including liquid chromatography with tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS 2 ) and gas chromatography (GC-MS) which enable the determination of such compounds down to the ng/l level.

TL;DR: A survey undertaken in Northern Greece has shown that organochlorine pesticides are present in the surface waters, including the isomers of hexachlorocyclohexane, aldrin, dieldrin and endosulfan sulfate.