Large amounts of antibiotics are produced and consumed worldwide, while wastewater
treatment is still rather inefficient, leading to considerable water contamination …

As long ago as the sixteenth century, Paracelsus recognized that 'the dose makes the
poison'. Indeed, environmental concentrations of pharmaceuticals excreted by humans are …

Effluents from pharmaceutical industries are recognized as significant contributors to aquatic
pollution with antibiotics. Although such pollution has been mostly reported in Asia …

The spread of bacterial antibiotic resistance (due to over and non-judicious use of
antibiotics) is an apprehensive subjects matter and the role of wastewater treatment plants …

Low levels of pharmaceuticals are detected in surface, ground, and drinking water
worldwide. Usage and incorrect disposal have been considered the major environmental …

Although antibiotics have been used in large quantities for some decades, until recently the
existence of these substances in the environment has received little notice. It is only in …

Abstract Two USEPA Regional Laboratories developed direct-injection LC/MS/MS methods
to measure Pharmaceuticals and Personal Care Products (PPCPs) in water matrices …

A pilot-scale hospital wastewater treatment plant consisting of a primary clarifier, membrane
bioreactor, and five post-treatment technologies including ozone (O3), O3/H2O2, powdered …

The fate of antibiotics in the environment, and especially antibiotics used in animal
husbandry, is subject to recent studies and the issue of this review. The assumed quantity of …

Antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs), in association with antibiotic resistant bacteria (ARB),
have been identified as widespread contaminants of treated drinking waters and …