Occurrence and fate of emerging contaminants in water environment: A review

A Gogoi, P Mazumder, VK Tyagi… - Groundwater for …, 2018 - Elsevier
Emerging contaminants (ECs), such as personal care products (PCPs), endocrine disrupting
compounds (EDCs), pharmaceuticals (PhACs) and their transformation products, whose …

Chiral pharmaceuticals: A review on their environmental occurrence and fate processes

E Sanganyado, Z Lu, Q Fu, D Schlenk, J Gan - Water Research, 2017 - Elsevier
More than 50% of pharmaceuticals in current use are chiral compounds. Enantiomers of the
same pharmaceutical have identical physicochemical properties, but may exhibit differences …

From molecular descriptors to the developmental toxicity prediction of pesticides/veterinary drugs/bio-pesticides against zebrafish embryo: Dual computational …

Y Wang, P Wang, T Fan, T Ren, N Zhang… - Journal of Hazardous …, 2024 - Elsevier
The escalating introduction of pesticides/veterinary drugs into the environment has
necessitated a rapid evaluation of their potential risks to ecosystems and human health. The …

Nutrients utilization and contaminants removal. A review of two approaches of algae and cyanobacteria in wastewater

SP Cuellar-Bermudez, GS Aleman-Nava, R Chandra… - Algal Research, 2017 - Elsevier
The detection of new pollutants, stricter environmental regulations, and advancements in
treatment technologies are driving improvements in bioprocesses for treating wastewater …

Veterinary drugs in the environment and their toxicity to plants

H Bártíková, R Podlipná, L Skálová - Chemosphere, 2016 - Elsevier
Veterinary drugs used for treatment and prevention of diseases in animals represent
important source of environmental pollution due to intensive agri-and aquaculture …

Medicating the environment: assessing risks of pharmaceuticals to wildlife and ecosystems

KE Arnold, AR Brown, GT Ankley… - … Transactions of the …, 2014 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Global pharmaceutical consumption is rising with the growing and ageing human population
and more intensive food production. Recent studies have revealed pharmaceutical residues …

Performance of a microalgal photobioreactor treating toilet wastewater: pharmaceutically active compound removal and biomass harvesting

A Hom-Diaz, A Jaén-Gil, I Bello-Laserna… - Science of the Total …, 2017 - Elsevier
In this study, a 1200 L outdoor pilot scale microalgal photobioreactor (PBR) was used for
toilet wastewater (WW) treatment and evaluate its ability to remove pharmaceutically active …

Status of hormones and painkillers in wastewater effluents across several European states—considerations for the EU watch list concerning estradiols and diclofenac

P Schröder, B Helmreich, B Škrbić, M Carballa… - … Science and Pollution …, 2016 - Springer
Present technologies for wastewater treatment do not sufficiently address the increasing
pollution situation of receiving water bodies, especially with the growing use of personal …

Potential ecological footprints of active pharmaceutical ingredients: an examination of risk factors in low-, middle-and high-income countries

RS Kookana, M Williams… - … of the Royal …, 2014 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) can enter the natural environment during
manufacture, use and/or disposal, and consequently public concern about their potential …

Removal of contaminants of emerging concern from a wastewater effluent by solar-driven heterogeneous photocatalysis: a case study of pharmaceuticals

G Pérez-Lucas, AE Aatik, M Aliste, G Navarro… - Water, Air, & Soil …, 2023 - Springer
The occurrence of emerging micropollutants (pharmaceuticals, pesticides, personal care
products, industrial compounds, etc.) in the environment is considered a major threat to …