In the last few decades, pharmaceuticals, credited with saving millions of lives, have
emerged as a new class of environmental contaminant. These compounds can have both …

Swine wastewater (SW) is an important source of antibiotics and hormones (A&H) in the
environment due to their large-scale application in swine industry. A&H in SW can be …

The valorization of biochar as a green and low-cost adsorbent provides a sustainable
alternative to commercial wastewater treatment technologies that are usually chemical …

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

Emerging organic contaminants (EOCs) detected in groundwater may have adverse effects
on human health and aquatic ecosystems. This paper reviews the existing occurrence data …

Steroid hormones are micropollutants that contaminate the water worldwide and exhibit a
significant threat to human health and the environment even at low concentrations. Steroid …

This paper provides a review of the types of emerging organic groundwater contaminants
(EGCs) which are beginning to be found in the UK. EGCs are compounds being found in …

A broad spectrum of organic chemicals is essential to modern society. Once discharged from
industrial, domestic and urban sources into the urban wastewater collection system they …

Endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs) have been identified as emerging contaminants,
which poses a great threat to human health and ecosystem. Pesticides, polycyclic aromatic …

This study consists of a review based on 104 papers published between 1980 and 2019,
which dealt with the occurrence of pharmaceuticals, hormones and a selection of …