The presence of pharmaceuticals in the environment due to human use--present knowledge and future challenges.

By K. Kümmerer. Journal of Environmental Management, 2009

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Subfields: Analytical Chemistry, Biomedical Engineering, Pollution

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Pharmaceuticals as emerging contaminants and their removal from water. A review. (2013, background): “Over the last fifteen years, pharmaceuticals have been receiving increasing attention as potential bioactive chemicals in the environment (Kümmerer, 2009).”
Removal of diclofenac sodium from aqueous solution by Isabel grape bagasse (2012, background): “The focus on pharmaceuticals has been reflected by the exponential increase in the number of studies of this class of compounds, especially since the 1990s [1-3].”
Reusability of photocatalytic TiO2 and ZnO nanoparticles immobilized in poly(vinylidene difluoride)-co-trifluoroethylene (2016, background): “rapid and efficient removal from water, transforming them into by-products with lower toxicity [3,10,11].”
Emerging organic contaminants in groundwater: A review of sources, fate and occurrence. (2012, background): “In the last few decades there has been a growing interest in the occurrence of these, so called, ‘micro-organic contaminants’ in the terrestrial and aquatic environment, their environmental fate and their potential toxicity (Stan and Linkerhagner, 1992; Stan et al., 1994; Halling-Sørensen et al., 19”
Occurrence of pharmaceutical compounds in urban wastewater: removal, mass load and environmental risk after a secondary treatment--a review. (2012, background): “…if found on the same molecule (e.g. ciprofloxacin), can cause it to be neutral, cationic, anionic or zwitterionic under different environmental conditions, (Kümmerer, 2009a; Ternes and Joss, 2006) resulting in (very) different behaviours during treatment processes as it will be discussed later.”
Tetracycline antibiotics in the environment: a review (2013, background): “A significant number of these compounds have been frequently detected in different type of waters (wastewater, surface water, drinking water, ground water) and solids (sludge, soil, and sediments) (Christian et al. 2003; Gobel et al. 2005; Kim and Carlson 2007; Kummerer 2009a, b).”