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Occurrence of pharmaceutical compounds in urban wastewater: Removal, mass load and environmental risk after a secondary treatment—A review
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This analysis shows that the highest amounts discharged through secondary effluent pertain to one antihypertensive, and several beta-blockers and analgesics/anti-inflammatories, while the highest risk is posed by antibiotics and several psychiatric drugs and analgesic/ anti- inflammatories.About:
This article is published in Science of The Total Environment.The article was published on 2012-07-01. It has received 1721 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Secondary treatment & Effluent.read more
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A review on the occurrence of micropollutants in the aquatic environment and their fate and removal during wastewater treatment
Yunlong Luo,Wenshan Guo,Huu Hao Ngo,Long D. Nghiem,Faisal I. Hai,Jian Zhang,Shuang Liang,Xiaochang C. Wang +7 more
TL;DR: This review provides a summary of the recent occurrence of micropollutants in the aquatic environment including sewage, surface water, groundwater and drinking water.
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Pharmaceuticals of Emerging Concern in Aquatic Systems: Chemistry, Occurrence, Effects, and Removal Methods.
TL;DR: Adsorption technologies are a low-cost alternative, easily used in developing countries where there is a dearth of advanced technologies, skilled personnel, and available capital, and adsorption appears to be the most broadly feasible pharmaceutical removal method.
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Removal of pharmaceuticals and personal care products (PPCPs) from wastewater: A review.
Jianlong Wang,Shizong Wang +1 more
TL;DR: The classes, functions and the representatives of the frequently detected PPCPs in aquatic environments were summarized and suggestions are made for future study of P PCPs.
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Occurrence and fate of emerging contaminants in municipal wastewater treatment plants from different geographical regions-a review.
TL;DR: Many antibiotics were detected in the influents and effluents of WWTPs at concentrations close to or exceeding the predicted no-effect concentrations (PNECs) for resistance selection.
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EU-wide monitoring survey on emerging polar organic contaminants in wastewater treatment plant effluents.
Robert Loos,Raquel N. Carvalho,Diana C. António,Sara Comero,Giovanni Locoro,Simona Tavazzi,Bruno Paracchini,Michela Ghiani,Teresa Lettieri,Ludek Blaha,Barbora Jarošová,Stefan Voorspoels,Kelly Servaes,Peter Haglund,Jerker Fick,Richard H. Lindberg,David Schwesig,Bernd Manfred Gawlik +17 more
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.
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Antibiotics in the aquatic environment - A review - Part II
TL;DR: This review brings up important questions that are still open, and addresses some significant issues which must be tackled in the future for a better understanding of the behavior of antibiotics in the environment, as well as the risks associated with their occurrence.
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Occurrence, fate and effects of pharmaceutical substances in the environment- A review
Bent Halling-Sørensen,S. Nors Nielsen,P.F. Lanzky,Flemming Ingerslev,Hans-Christian Holten Lützhøft,S.E. Jørgensen +5 more
TL;DR: Present knowledge does not reveal if regular therapeutic use may be the source of a substance carried by sewage effluent into the aquatic system, even though clofibrate, a lipid lowering agent, has been identified in ground and tap water samples from Berlin.
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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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Water Analysis: Emerging Contaminants and Current Issues
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Behavior of pharmaceuticals, cosmetics and hormones in a sewage treatment plant
Marta Carballa,Francisco Omil,Juan M. Lema,Maria Llompart,Carmen Garcia-Jares,Isaac Rodríguez,Mariano Gómez,Thomas A. Ternes +7 more
TL;DR: The concentration of estrone increased along the treatment due to the partial oxidation of 17beta-estradiol in the aeration tank, and the overall removal efficiencies within the STP ranged between 70-90% for the fragrances, 40-65% forThe anti-inflammatories, around 65% for 17 beta-ESTradiol and 60% for sulfamethoxazole.