Environmental pollution with contaminants of emerging concern (CECs) is a worldwide problem that receiving increasing attention. Although these substances have been released in the aquatic environment for long time, wastewater treatment plants are still incapable removing completely. Consequently, trace metals, metalloids and pharmaceuticals, as well surfactant leftovers, often found environmen...

A quarter of the world's population uses groundwater from karst aquifers. range emerging organic contaminants (EOCs) are considered a potential threat to water resources and dependant ecosystems, aquifers most vulnerable systems anthropogenic pollution. This paper provides first global compilation (based on 50 studies) EOCs in explores EOC occurrence use understand systems. Of 144 compounds det...

Water contamination by emerging contaminants is increasing in the context of rising urbanization, industrialization, and agriculture production. Emerging refers to for which there currently no regulation requiring monitoring or public reporting their presence our water supply wastewaters. There are many such as pesticides, pharmaceuticals, drugs, cosmetics, personal care products, surfactants, ...

Some chemical substances have the potential to enter coastal and marine environment cause adverse effects on ecosystems, biodiversity human health. For a large majority of them, their fate are poorly understood as well use still unregulated. Finding effective sustainable strategies for identification these emerging and/or anthropogenic contaminants that might polluting in environments mitigate ...

During the last decade, the expansion of urbanization and industrial activities caused serious environmental problems such as soil pollution. Novel technologies are required to remediate soil contamination with toxic contaminants, including heavy metals and organic pollutants. In recent years, there have been increasing attempts to improve soil remediation efficiency. Electrokinetic (EK) is an ...

Emerging contaminants at the air/aqueous and model biological interfaces.

The concept or notion of virulence factor-activity relationships (VFAR) is an approach for identifying an analogous process to the use of qualitative structure-activity relationships (QSAR) for identifying new microbial contaminants. In QSAR, it is hypothesized that, for new chemical contaminants, their potential acute or chronic toxicity may be reasonably estimated on the basis of structural r...