Occurrence and spatial distribution of pharmaceuticals and personal care products (PPCPs) in the aquatic environment, their characteristics, and adopted legislations

HB Hawash, AA Moneer, AA Galhoum… - Journal of Water …, 2023 - Elsevier
Pharmaceuticals and personal care products (PPCPs) residues are known to occur widely in
the aquatic environments of industrialized and developing countries. Considerable progress …

Occurrences and removal of pharmaceuticals and personal care products (PPCPs) in drinking water and water/sewage treatment plants: A review

Y Yang, YS Ok, KH Kim, EE Kwon, YF Tsang - Science of the Total …, 2017 - Elsevier
In recent years, many of micropollutants have been widely detected because of continuous
input of pharmaceuticals and personal care products (PPCPs) into the environment and …

Endocrine-disrupting compounds: An overview on their occurrence in the aquatic environment and human exposure

C Pironti, M Ricciardi, A Proto, PM Bianco, L Montano… - Water, 2021 - mdpi.com
Endocrine-disrupting compounds (EDCs) as emerging contaminants have accumulated in
the aquatic environment at concentration levels that have been determined to be significant …

Wastewater-based epidemiology biomarkers: past, present and future

PM Choi, BJ Tscharke, E Donner, JW O'Brien… - TrAC Trends in …, 2018 - Elsevier
Wastewater is a complex matrix containing a wide range of chemical and biological markers
of human activity. Relating concentrations of these “waste” materials in wastewater influent …

Seasonal occurrence, removal, mass loading and environmental risk assessment of 55 pharmaceuticals and personal care products in a municipal wastewater …

M Papageorgiou, C Kosma, D Lambropoulou - Science of the total …, 2016 - Elsevier
A comprehensive study, which contains the seasonal occurrence, removal, mass loading
and environmental risk assessment of 55 multi-class pharmaceuticals and personal care …

Antidepressant drugs as emerging contaminants: Occurrence in urban and non-urban waters and analytical methods for their detection

C Castillo-Zacarías, ME Barocio… - Science of the Total …, 2021 - Elsevier
Antidepressants are drugs with a direct action on the brain's biochemistry through their
interaction with the neurotransmitters, such as dopamine, norepinephrine, and serotonin …

Assessment of a wide array of organic micropollutants of emerging concern in wastewater treatment plants in Greece: Occurrence, removals, mass loading and …

A Ofrydopoulou, C Nannou, E Evgenidou… - Science of the Total …, 2022 - Elsevier
Exploring the contamination profile of multi-class emerging contaminants (ECs) in
wastewater is highly desirable. To this end, the occurrence, removal, mass loading and risks …

Occurrence and spatial distribution of 158 pharmaceuticals, drugs of abuse and related metabolites in offshore seawater

NA Alygizakis, P Gago-Ferrero, VL Borova… - Science of the Total …, 2016 - Elsevier
The occurrence and spatial distribution of 158 pharmaceuticals and drugs of abuse were
studied in seawater of the Eastern Mediterranean Sea (Saronikos Gulf and Elefsis Bay in …

Catalytic degradation of ranitidine using novel magnetic Ti3C2-based MXene nanosheets modified with nanoscale zero-valent iron particles

Y Ma, X Lv, D Xiong, X Zhao, Z Zhang - Applied Catalysis B: Environmental, 2021 - Elsevier
Magnetic nanoscale zero-valent iron (nZVI)@ Ti 3 C 2-based MXene nanosheets were
synthesized via an in-situ reductive deposition method, and were characterized as a novel …

Measuring biomarkers in wastewater as a new source of epidemiological information: Current state and future perspectives

E Gracia-Lor, S Castiglioni, R Bade, F Been… - Environment …, 2017 - Elsevier
The information obtained from the chemical analysis of specific human excretion products
(biomarkers) in urban wastewater can be used to estimate the exposure or consumption of …