Occurrence and removal of antibiotics, hormones and several other pharmaceuticals in wastewater treatment plants of the largest industrial city of Korea

Occurrence of organic microcontaminants in the wastewater treatment process. A mini review

“…The most common belong to the categories of antibiotics, analgesic and anti-inflammatory. However, other groups include diuretics, antibiotics, antidiabetics, anticoagulants, psychiatric drugs, lipid regulators, histamine H2 antagonists [14,15], anti-epileptic drugs [15,16], antifongics, antineoplasics, disinfectants, antidepressants, antiseptics, hormones, vascodilators [15], antifungics, vascodilators, barbiturates, anticancers, anticonvulsants [17], antihypersensitives and antilipidemics [18]. Recently, a review by Miege et al [15] presented the concentrations of PPCPs in WWTP influents and effluents, their removal efficiency and their loads to the aquatic environment.…”

Distribution, behavior and fate of azole antifungals during mechanical, biological, and chemical treatments in sewage treatment plants in China

“…Briefly, wastewater samples were filtered with prebaked 0.7-μm glass fiber filters (GF/F, Whatman, Maidstone, England) (Behera et al, 2011;Huang et al, 2010). The filtrate and suspended particulate matter retained on GF/F were analyzed separately.…”

“…Fate (e.g., adsorption, bio-and chemical transformation) and transport of several groups of antibacterials and other pharmaceuticals during wastewater treatment have been well studied through bench-scale laboratory tests as well as in full-scale STPs (Behera et al, 2011;Gobel et al, 2005;Junker et al, 2006;Lindberg et al, 2006;McArdell et al, 2003;Plosz et al, 2010;Radjenovic et al, 2009;Zorita et al, 2009). In contrast, in-depth studies about behavior of the azole antifungals during various treatments in STPs, such as mechanical, biological, and chemical processes, are still lacking in spite of some works about distribution of these compounds in liquid phase Contents lists available at SciVerse ScienceDirect Science of the Total Environment j o u r n a l h o m e p a g e : w w w .…”

Contribution of hospital effluents to the load of pharmaceuticals in urban wastewaters: Identification of ecologically relevant pharmaceuticals

“…Wastewaters have been pointed out as the main route of entry of pharmaceuticals into the environment (Daughton and Ruhoy, 2009), since they gather the residues excreted after ingestion, which are excreted in urine and feces, either as unchanged compounds or metabolites. Several studies pointed out that Wastewater Treatment Plants (WWTPs) are not able to completely remove pharmaceuticals (Behera et al, 2011;Gracia-Lor et al, 2012;Jelic et al, 2011;Kosma et al, 2010;Zorita et al, 2009). Besides urban wastewaters, hospital wastewaters have also stood up as an important environmental exposure pathway of pharmaceuticals (Verlicchi et al, 2010b).…”