Pharmaceutically active compounds (PhACs) have pernicious effects on all kinds of life
forms because of their toxicological effects and are found profoundly in various wastewater …

A wide range of unregulated chemicals of synthetic origin or derived from natural sources,
which may be a contender for future regulations are called Emerging Contaminants (ECs) …

Over the past few years, pharmaceuticals are considered as an emerging environmental
problem due to their continuous input and persistence to the aquatic ecosystem even at low …

Pharmaceutical and personal care products (PPCPs) are part of the emerging contaminants
(ECs) in the environment due to their known or suspected adverse effects in aquatic and …

Nowadays, pharmaceuticals are the center of significant environmental research due to their
complex and highly stable bioactivity, increasing concentration in the water streams and …

Emerging contaminants (ECs), such as personal care products (PCPs), endocrine disrupting
compounds (EDCs), pharmaceuticals (PhACs) and their transformation products, whose …

Pollutants of legal pharmaceuticals and illicit drugs are causing many adverse effects on the
environment. Pollutants are arising from waste products and from pharmaceuticals or illegal …

The ubiquitous problem of pesticide in aquatic environment are receiving worldwide
concern as pesticide tends to accumulate in the body of the aquatic organism and sediment …

Pharmaceutically active compounds are newly recognized micropollutants which are
ubiquitous in aquatic environment mainly due to direct discharge of treated and untreated …

This paper reviews the occurrence of Pharmaceutically active compounds (PhACs) in water
and wastewater worldwide as well as their fate, focusing on the removal by conventional …