Tracking complex mixtures of chemicals in our changing environment

BI Escher, HM Stapleton, EL Schymanski - Science, 2020 - science.org
Chemicals have improved our quality of life, but the resulting environmental pollution has
the potential to cause detrimental effects on humans and the environment. People and biota …

[HTML][HTML] Advanced oxidation and biological integrated processes for pharmaceutical wastewater treatment: a review

JB Adeoye, YH Tan, SY Lau, YY Tan, T Chiong… - Journal of …, 2024 - Elsevier
The stress of pharmaceutical and personal care products (PPCPs) discharging to water
bodies and the environment due to increased industrialization has reduced the availability of …

[HTML][HTML] Ecological risk assessment of fifty pharmaceuticals and personal care products (PPCPs) in Chinese surface waters: a proposed multiple-level system

N Liu, X **, C Feng, Z Wang, F Wu, AC Johnson… - Environment …, 2020 - Elsevier
Interest in the risks posed by trace concentrations of pharmaceuticals and personal care
products (PPCPs) in surface waters is increasing, particularly with regard to potential effects …

A review on environmental monitoring of water organic pollutants identified by EU guidelines

JCG Sousa, AR Ribeiro, MO Barbosa… - Journal of hazardous …, 2018 - Elsevier
The contamination of fresh water is a global concern. The huge impact of natural and
anthropogenic organic substances that are constantly released into the environment …

Occurrence and risk assessment of pharmaceuticals and personal care products (PPCPs) against COVID-19 in lakes and WWTP-river-estuary system in Wuhan …

X Chen, L Lei, S Liu, J Han, R Li, J Men, L Li… - Science of the Total …, 2021 - Elsevier
The consumption of pharmaceuticals and personal care products (PPCPs) for controlling
and preventing the COVID-19 would have sharply increased during the pandemic. To …

WO3–based photocatalysts: A review on synthesis, performance enhancement and photocatalytic memory for environmental applications

O Samuel, MHD Othman, R Kamaludin… - Ceramics …, 2022 - Elsevier
A significant drawback of the traditional photocatalysts such as titanium dioxide (TiO 2) is
their inability to absorb visible light from the solar spectrum due to their wide band gap …

[HTML][HTML] Optimization of screening-level risk assessment and priority selection of emerging pollutants–The case of pharmaceuticals in European surface waters

S Zhou, C Di Paolo, X Wu, Y Shao, TB Seiler… - Environment …, 2019 - Elsevier
Pharmaceuticals in surface waters have raised significant concern in recent years for their
potential environmental effects. This study identified that at present a total of 477 substances …

[HTML][HTML] Pharmaceuticals in water as emerging pollutants for river health: A critical review under Indian conditions

N Ranjan, PK Singh, NS Maurya - Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety, 2022 - Elsevier
The wastewaters from pharmaceutical manufacturing units, hospitals, and domestic sewage
contaminated with excretal matters of medicine users are the prime sources of …

[HTML][HTML] Functionalized carbon nanotubes (CNTs) for water and wastewater treatment: preparation to application

MMA Aslam, HW Kuo, W Den, M Usman, M Sultan… - Sustainability, 2021 - mdpi.com
As the world human population and industrialization keep growing, the water availability
issue has forced scientists, engineers, and legislators of water supply industries to better …

Future water quality monitoring: improving the balance between exposure and toxicity assessments of real-world pollutant mixtures

R Altenburger, W Brack, RM Burgess, W Busch… - Environmental Sciences …, 2019 - Springer
Environmental water quality monitoring aims to provide the data required for safeguarding
the environment against adverse biological effects from multiple chemical contamination …