Pharmaceuticals and personal care products (PPCPs) in the freshwater aquatic environment

Occurrence and fate of pharmaceuticals and personal care products (PPCPs) in biosolids.

Each year, large quantities of pharmaceuticals and personal care products (PPCPs) are used worldwide. Once conveyed to wastewater treatment plants, PPCPs can remain unchanged or undergo partial or complete transformation during wastewater treatment processes before discharge into the environment via effluent and biosolids for land application. Biosolids can be a major sink for some PPCPs. Previ...

Chapter 7. Pharmaceuticals and personal care products (PPCPs) in the environment and their removal from wastewater through constructed wetlands

Pharmaceuticals and personal care products (PPCPs): a review on environmental contamination in China.

Pharmaceuticals and personal care products (PPCPs) which contain diverse organic groups, such as antibiotics, hormones, antimicrobial agents, synthetic musks, etc., have raised significant concerns in recently years for their persistent input and potential threat to ecological environment and human health. China is a large country with high production and consumption of PPCPs for its economic d...

Pharmaceuticals and personal care products (PPCPs) in treated wastewater discharges into Charleston Harbor, South Carolina.

This study assessed seasonal and regional trends of pharmaceuticals and personal care products (PPCPs) detected in monthly samples from two local wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) in Charleston, South Carolina, USA, over the period of one year. Surface water of Charleston Harbor was also analyzed to examine environmental distribution in an estuarine ecosystem. Of the 19 compounds examined, 11...

ENVIRONMENTAL RISK ASSESSMENT (ERA) OF PHARMACEUTICALS AND PERSONAL CARE PRODUCTS (PPCPs) USING ECOTOXICITY TESTS

A wide range of Pharmaceuticals and Personal Care Products (PPCPs) are present in the environment, and many of their adverse effects are unknown. The environmental risk assessment (ERA) of twenty six PPCPs of high consumption and occurrence in Spain was done in this work. Based on ecotoxicity values obtained by bioluminescence and respirometry assays, the compounds were classified as establishe...