Emerging contaminants in Brazilian aquatic environment: identifying targets of potential concern based on occurrence and ecological risk

First report on the occurrence of pharmaceuticals and cocaine in the coastal waters of Santa Catarina, Brazil, and its related ecological risk assessment

“…The screening of the pre-selected twenty-seven PPCPs was based on the annual consumption, reported toxicity and environmental persistence (Cmed, 2021;Roveri et al 2021b). These PPCPs, were recently identi ed as having the greatest relevance for studies of environmental monitoring in Brazil(Chaves et al, 2021). The occurrence of these chemical compounds was somewhat expected in the hereby study area as result of the wastewater discharges from industrial and domestic e uents(Krogh et al, 2017; Asfa et al, 2020;Shahriar et al, 2021).…”