Transfer of wastewater associated pharmaceuticals and personal care products to crop plants from biosolids treated soil

Comparison of accelerated solvent extraction and quick, easy, cheap, effective, rugged and safe method for extraction and determination of pharmaceuticals in vegetables

“…Pharmaceuticals could be taken up by crop/vegetable produce from agricultural lands, and enter humans and animals through food chains [1][2][3][4][5]. The human health impacts of chronic exposure to trace levels of bioactive pharmaceutical chemicals are largely unknown.…”

Effect of Biosolid Amendments on the Metal and Nutrient Uptake and Spectral Characteristics of Five Vegetable Plants

“…Soil organic matter content (measured as loss on ignition at 360°C for 2 h) was 3.0±0.2 %, and cation exchange capacity was 30.4 ±1.1 meq/100 g (determined by Brookside Laboratories, Inc., New Knoxville, OH). Further details of the soil characteristics and the pot study are reported elsewhere (Wu et al 2012). The pot experiment for each vegetable species consisting of three sludge treatments were arranged in a completely randomized design, with three replicates in each treatment group.…”

“…The soil and plant analyses were conducted by Brookside Laboratories, Inc. (New Knoxville, OH). The samples were also analyzed for several organic contaminants, and the details of the study are reported elsewhere (Wu et al 2012). …”

Comments on “Human health risk assessment of pharmaceuticals and personal care products in plant tissue due to biosolids and manure amendments, and wastewater irrigation”

“…The issue of metabolism has been addressed in several PPCP plant uptake studies (Huber et al, 2009;Macherius et al, 2014;Goldstein et al, 2014;Malchi et al, 2014;Bartha et al, 2014) as well as in the health risk study of pharmaceuticals in drinking water (Houeto et al, 2012). Wu et al (2010Wu et al ( , 2012 reported that the anticonvulsant drug carbamazepine was detected in leaves of soybean and tomato but not in the bean of the soybean or in the tomato fruit. Results from Goldstein et al (2014) provide sufficient evidence that although the parent compound was not detected accumulation of metabolites in the fruit may occur.…”