“…Ibuprofen is one of the NSAIDs most frequently detected in the environment. Its presence was reported in wastewaters Lindholm-Lehto et al, 2015), surface waters (Paíga et al, 2013;Carmona et al, 2014), drinking water (Luque-Espinar et al, 2015) and also in sediments (Carmona et al, 2014) and soils (Aznar et al, 2014). In fact, ibuprofen was pointed out as a good pollution indicator due to exposure to anthropogenic activities (de Sousa et al, 2014).…”