[HTML][HTML] Pharmaceutical pollution in aquatic environments: a concise review of environmental impacts and bioremediation systems

M Ortúzar, M Esterhuizen… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
The presence of emerging contaminants in the environment, such as pharmaceuticals, is a
growing global concern. The excessive use of medication globally, together with the …

[HTML][HTML] Critical review of technologies for the on-site treatment of hospital wastewater: From conventional to combined advanced processes

MI Pariente, Y Segura, S Álvarez-Torrellas… - Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
This review aims to assess different technologies for the on-site treatment of hospital
wastewater (HWW) to remove pharmaceutical compounds (PhCs) as sustances of emerging …

Anticancer drugs in wastewater and natural environments: A review on their occurrence, environmental persistence, treatment, and ecological risks

A Castellano-Hinojosa, MJ Gallardo-Altamirano… - Journal of Hazardous …, 2023 - Elsevier
The consumption of anticancer drugs (also known as chemotherapy drugs or antineoplastic
drugs) has augmented over the last decades due to increased cancer incidence. Although …

Water analysis: emerging contaminants and current issues

SD Richardson, SY Kimura - Analytical chemistry, 2016 - ACS Publications
■ BACKGROUND This biennial review covers developments in water analysis for emerging
environmental contaminants over the period of October 2013-October 2015. Analytical …

0D/3D CNQDs/CuFe2O4/Cu0 heterostructures as broad spectrum photocatalyst for efficient 5-fluorouracil degradation: Structural evolution and relay oxidation …

A Wang, S Guo, M Xu, C Meng, H Zhu, T Zheng… - Applied Catalysis B …, 2023 - Elsevier
Undesirable solar energy absorption, poor charge transfer efficiency, and sluggish metallic
ions redox cycle are three pressing problems, restricting the application of photocatalysis …

[HTML][HTML] Anticancer drugs in the aquatic ecosystem: Environmental occurrence, ecotoxicological effect and risk assessment

D Li, H Chen, H Liu, D Schlenk, J Mu, S Lacorte… - Environment …, 2021 - Elsevier
Anticancer drugs are a group of therapeutic agents used to enhance cell death in targeted
cell types of neoplasia. Because of frequent use and eventual discharge, they have been …

Pharmaceuticals and iodinated contrast media in a hospital wastewater: a case study to analyse their presence and characterise their environmental risk and hazard

A Mendoza, J Aceña, S Pérez, ML De Alda… - Environmental …, 2015 - Elsevier
This work analyses the presence of twenty-five pharmaceutical compounds belonging to
seven different therapeutic groups and one iodinated contrast media (ICM) in a Spanish …

[HTML][HTML] Fate of selected pharmaceuticals in hospital and municipal wastewater effluent: occurrence, removal, and environmental risk assessment

A Ulvi, S Aydın, ME Aydın - Environmental Science and Pollution …, 2022 - Springer
The concentrations and distribution of β-blockers, lipid regulators, and psychiatric and
cancer drugs in the influent and effluent of the municipal wastewater treatment plant (WWTP) …

Chemical and toxicological characterisation of anticancer drugs in hospital and municipal wastewaters from Slovenia and Spain

M Isidori, M Lavorgna, C Russo, M Kundi… - Environmental …, 2016 - Elsevier
Anticancer drugs are continuously released into hospital and urban wastewaters, where
they, most commonly, undergo conventional treatment in wastewater treatment plants …

Identification, quantification, and prioritization of new emerging pollutants in domestic and industrial effluents, Korea: Application of LC-HRMS based suspect and non …

Y Choi, JH Lee, K Kim, H Mun, N Park, J Jeon - Journal of hazardous …, 2021 - Elsevier
The present study was designed to identify recently (or rarely) recognized or unreported
substances (RRS or URS) contained in the effluents from water treatment plants in two …