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Determination of pharmaceuticals of various therapeutic classes by solid-phase extraction and liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry analysis in hospital effluent wastewaters.
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A multi-residue analytical method has been developed and validated for determining a selection of 16 pharmaceuticals: the anti-epileptic carbamazepine, seven analgesic/anti-inflammatory drugs, the analgesic opiate codeine, two antidepressants, beta-blockers, and antibiotic in hospital effluent wastewater samples.About:
This article is published in Journal of Chromatography A.The article was published on 2006-05-12. It has received 484 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Solid phase extraction & Detection limit.read more
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Ecotoxicological aspects related to the presence of pharmaceuticals in the aquatic environment
Lúcia Santos,Alberto N. Araújo,Adriano Fachini,A. Pena,Cristina Delerue-Matos,Maria C. B. S. M. Montenegro +5 more
TL;DR: An extensive review of existing data in the form of tables, encompassing many therapeutic classes is presented and the different contamination sources as well as fate and both acute and chronic effects on non-target organisms are reviewed.
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The presence of pharmaceuticals in the environment due to human use--present knowledge and future challenges.
TL;DR: This review gives an overview of the present state of knowledge of pharmaceuticals in the environment presenting typical results and lines of discussion and addresses important and typical topics to stimulate discussion.
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Impacts of emerging organic contaminants on freshwater resources: Review of recent occurrences, sources, fate and effects
TL;DR: This paper reviews recent studies on the occurrence and fate of frequently detected pharmaceuticals and hormones and identifies areas that merit further research.
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Antibiotics in the aquatic environments: A review of the European scenario.
Isabel Carvalho,Lúcia Santos +1 more
TL;DR: This literature review summarizes the state of knowledge on the occurrence of antibiotics in the different aqueous environmental systems across the Europe, as reported since 2000 and provides an improved understanding on aquatic pollution by antibiotics to outline the European scenario.
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Hospital effluents as a source of emerging pollutants: An overview of micropollutants and sustainable treatment options
TL;DR: In this paper, hospital effluents and urban wastewaters are compared in terms of quali-quantitative characteristics, and an overview of the removal capacity of different treatments is reported.
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Pharmaceuticals and personal care products in the environment: agents of subtle change?
TL;DR: This review attempts to synthesize the literature on environmental origin, distribution/occurrence, and effects and to catalyze a more focused discussion in the environmental science community.
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Occurrence of drugs in German sewage treatment plants and rivers
TL;DR: In this article, the occurrence of 32 drug residues belonging to different medicinal classes like antiphlogistics, lipid regulators, psychiatric drugs, antiepileptic drugs, betablockers and β 2 -sympathomimetics as well as five metabolites has been investigated in German municipal sewage treatment plant (STP) discharges, river and stream waters.
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Occurrence, fate, and removal of pharmaceutical residues in the aquatic environment: a review of recent research data
TL;DR: Several PhACs from various prescription classes have been found at concentrations up to the microg/l-level in sewage influent and effluent samples and also in several surface waters located downstream from municipal sewage treatment plants (STPs).
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Environmental risk assessment of pharmaceutical residues in wastewater effluents, surface waters and sediments.
TL;DR: RQ was applied as a novel approach to estimate the environmental risk of pharmaceuticals that are most frequently detected in wastewater effluents, surface waters and sediments and its continuous introduction in the environment may make them "pseudopersistents".
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Pharmaceuticals in groundwaters analytical methods and results of a monitoring program in Baden-Württemberg, Germany.
TL;DR: Analytical methods for the trace-level determination of 60 pharmaceuticals in aqueous samples are presented and it was found that several of the compounds under investigation could be detected in groundwaters and their occurrence could be traced back to an impact of municipal or industrial waste water.