Jerker Fick

TL;DR: The obtained results show the presence of 125 substances (80% of the target compounds) in European wastewater effluents, in concentrations ranging from low nanograms to milligrams per liter, which allow for an estimation to be made of a European median level for the chemicals investigated in WWTP effluent waters.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the environmental fate of active pharmaceutical ingredients in a major production area for the global bulk drug market, where water samples were taken from a common effluent treatment plant near Hyderabad, India, which receives process water from approximately 90 bulk drug manufacturers.

TL;DR: This work shows that a benzodiazepine anxiolytic drug (oxazepam) alters behavior and feeding rate of wild European perch at concentrations encountered in effluent-influenced surface waters, and alters animal behaviors that are known to have ecological and evolutionary consequences.

TL;DR: The analysis of microbial communities in river sediments exposed to waste water from the production of antibiotics in India identified very high levels of several classes of resistance genes as well as elements for horizontal gene transfer, including integrons, transposons and plasmids.

TL;DR: It is demonstrated that prey consumption can be an important exposure route as on average 46% of the pharmaceutical in ingested prey accumulated in the predator, suggesting that investigations of exposure through bioconcentration, where trophic interactions and subsequent bioaccumulation of exposed individuals are ignored, underestimate exposure.