Occurrence and ecological risk of pharmaceuticals and personal care products (PPCPs) and pesticides in typical surface watersheds, China

Xu, Mingzhi; Huang, Huiting; Li, Na; Li, Fang; Wang, Donghong; Luo, Qian

doi:10.1016/j.ecoenv.2019.01.131

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“…Water outflow from cities contains evidence of illicit drug use (Zuccato et al ). Water in taps contains pharmaceuticals that are incompletely absorbed by the body, excreted into the water system and then are incompletely treated by the water supply system (Letsinger et al ; Xu et al ). However, the most egregious cases of contamination concern heavy metals, particularly lead.…”

Section: Water Toxicants and Human Biology: Backgroundmentioning

confidence: 99%

Modern water: A biocultural approach to water pollution at the Akwesasne Mohawk Nation

Schell

2019

American J Hum Biol

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Objectives: The goal of this article is to review a body of research around water contamination conducted in the Akwesasne Mohawk Nation between 1995 and 2016, place these findings in a biocultural context, and consider implications for a human biology of water. Methods: This review draws on research projects conducted in partnership with the Akwesasne Mohawk Nation living along the St. Lawrence River as well as published research by others on water contamination at Akwesasne. Quantitative and qualitative methods including toxicological and epidemiological methods, surveys, and ethnographic studies are included. Results: Pollution of a river with polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) contaminated local fish, a major, traditional, food source. Following health advisories to avoid consuming local fish, consumption and PCB levels decreased. PCB levels were negatively associated with health outcomes. In adolescents, higher PCB levels were associated with advanced sexual maturation in females, reduced testosterone in males and reduced thyroxine levels in young adults. Avoiding fish consumption

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Section: Water Toxicants and Human Biology: Backgroundmentioning

confidence: 99%

Modern water: A biocultural approach to water pollution at the Akwesasne Mohawk Nation

Schell

2019

American J Hum Biol

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“…For example, they are ubiquitously in every household: in food, energy drinks, medicines, household and cleaning products, personal care products, and cosmetics, paints, electronics and computers, furniture and even our clothes (Puzyn and Mostrag-Szlichtyng 2012;Mortimer 2013;Schrenk and Chopra 2013;Duedahl-Olesen 2013;Juliano and Magrini 2017). The vast majority of chemicals, called contaminants or pollutants depending on their toxicity and impact (Chapman 2007), end up in our discharges of wastewater treatment plants and ultimately in the aquatic compartments of the environment such as rivers, lakes, coastal and marine ecosystems, seawater and ice caps Badot 2007, 2010; Kosma et al 2014;Gee et al 2015;Archer et al 2017;Ebele et al 2017;Peña-Guzmán et al 2019;Xu et al 2019). As a result, chemicals can be found not only in surface water and freshwater, but also in groundwater, which is the main source of drinking water in many countries (Dévier et al 2013;Gee et al 2015).…”

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“…In recent decades, thanks to significant advances in the analysis and detection of trace contaminants, emerging contaminants have also been detected in plants (due to soil and water pollution), food products, living organisms and protected species (e.g., birds, polar bears), even in areas where there is no human activity (Datta et al 2018;Routti et al 2019). This demonstrates their uncontrolled Gwenzi et al 2018;Matich et al 2019;Mezzelani et al 2018;Pedrazzani et al 2019;Xu et al 2019 Endocrine disrupting compounds Różalska et al 2015;Ma et al 2016;Murdoch and Sanin 2016;Tuan Omar et al 2016;Archer et al 2017;Acir and Guenther 2018;Dong et al 2018;Gogoi et al 2018;Liu et al 2019;Ng et al 2019;Olaniyan et al 2020;Patel et al 2020 Environmental fate Cavalheiro et al 2017;Monneret 2017;Priac et al 2017;Archundia et al 2018;Koumaki et al 2018;Reichert et al 2019;Yu et al 2019 Exposure pathways Chokwe et al 2017;Koba et al 2018;Mearns et al 2018;Li et al 2019b;Routti et al 2019;Wu et al 2020b;Xiao et al 2020 Fate Eggen andVogelsang 2015;Katsigiannis et al 2015;Noutsopoulos et al 2015;Carr et al 2016;…”

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Emerging Contaminants: Analysis, Aquatic Compartments and Water Pollution

Morin‐Crini¹,

Lichtfouse²,

Liu³

et al. 2021

Emerging Contaminants Vol. 1

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Over the past two decades, the presence of so-called emerging contaminants in various environmental compartments around the world, such as water, sediments, soils and atmosphere, and in a wide variety of consumer products has become a major concern for society, public health authorities, industry (namely food industry and water sector) and the agricultural sector. Some of these substances are endocrine disruptors and others are proven carcinogens and mutagens. In particular,

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“…Among such pharmaceuticals, nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs), beta-blockers, and antibiotics are widely used groups, and thus these groups are most often found in wastewater, which may co-exist in water bodies and soil environment [1,6,7]. They may induce adverse effects on aquatic systems [6,[8][9][10][11].…”

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Comparing the Effects of Types of Electrode on the Removal of Multiple Pharmaceuticals from Water by Electrochemical Methods

Liu

Huang

et al. 2020

Water

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Considering the lack of information on simultaneously removing multiple pharmaceuticals from water or wastewater by electrochemical methods, this study aimed to investigate the removal of multiple pharmaceuticals by electro-coagulation and electro-oxidation based on two types of electrodes (aluminum and graphite). The synthetic wastewater contained a nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (diclofenac), a sulfonamide antibiotic (sulfamethoxazole) and a β-blocker (atenolol). The pharmaceutical removal with electro-oxidation was much higher than those with the electro-coagulation process, which was obtained from a five-cell graphite electrode system, while the removal of pharmaceuticals with aluminum electrodes was about 20% (20 µM). In the electro-coagulation system, pharmaceutical removal was mainly influenced by the solubility or hydrophilicity of the compound. In the electro-oxidation system, the removal mechanism was influenced by the dissociation status of the compounds, which are attracted to the anode due to electrostatic forces and have a higher mass transformation rate with the electro-oxidation process. Therefore, atenolol, which was undissociated, cannot adequately be eliminated by electro-oxidation, unless the electrode’s surface is large enough to increase the mass diffusion rate.

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Occurrence and ecological risk of pharmaceuticals and personal care products (PPCPs) and pesticides in typical surface watersheds, China

Cited by 187 publications

References 64 publications

Modern water: A biocultural approach to water pollution at the Akwesasne Mohawk Nation

Modern water: A biocultural approach to water pollution at the Akwesasne Mohawk Nation

Emerging Contaminants: Analysis, Aquatic Compartments and Water Pollution

Comparing the Effects of Types of Electrode on the Removal of Multiple Pharmaceuticals from Water by Electrochemical Methods

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