Q2. What drugs were detected in the effluent 400wastewater?
Benzodiazepines (diazepam and 398oxazepam), anti-depressant venlafaxine, anti-epileptic carbamazepine and veterinary 399pharmaceutical levamisole (also used as an adulterant in cocaine) were detected in effluent 400wastewater.
Q3. What drugs were frequently found in the Mediterranean?
Among pharmaceuticals, the antibiotic ofloxacin, 298the anti-inflammatory/analgesic drug diclofenac, the angiotensin II receptor antagonists 299valsartan and irbesartan, the antidepressant venlafaxine and the anti-epileptic carbamazepine 300were the most frequently found.
Q4. How many fragments were observed in the HE spectrum?
Two fragments (m/z 234.1278 and 186.1277) observed in the HE spectrum had 339been previously reported for this compound by using an LTQ-Orbitrap with a resolving 340power of 30,000 [24].
Q5. What are the common drugs detected in the samples?
Other herbicides such as atrazine, simazine, 373diflufenican, the transformation products atrazine-desisopropyl and terbumeton-desethyl, the 374insecticide chlorpyriphos-ethyl and the fungicides fenarimol and propiconazole were also 375detected in a large number of samples (9-10 out of 12).
Q6. What is the common pesticide in the samples?
348A summary of the positive findings found in the samples analyzed is shown in Figure 4. 349Among the detected compounds in surface water samples, around 70% corresponded to 350pesticides, being herbicides and fungicides the most commonly identified.
Q7. What was the abundant fragment 326ions?
As the 325reference standard was not available, chemical structures for the most abundant fragment 326ions were suggested based on their accurate masses, using the MassFragment software 327(Waters).
Q8. What is the common method used to obtain the fragment ions from a given molecule?
This software applies a bond-disconnecting methodology to obtain possible 328structures for the fragment ions from a given molecule.
Q9. What is the way to detect and identify pollutants?
In a subsequent step, 445those pollutants detected and considered as relevant should be included in monitoring 446programs that would normally apply target quantitative methods, e.g. using MS/MS with 447triple quadrupole analyzer.