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TY - JOUR
T1 - Pharmaceuticals and Personal Care Products as Emerging Contaminants
T2 - Need for Combined Treatment Strategy
AU - Osuoha, Justice Obinna
AU - Anyanwu, Brilliance Onyinyechi
AU - Ejileugha, Chisom
PY - 2023/2/28
Y1 - 2023/2/28
N2 - Pharmaceuticals and personal care products (PPCPs) are distinct group of chemicals, specifically referred to as emerging environmental contaminants because of their intrinsic capacity to trigger diverse physiological effects in humans. Numerous research investigations have confirmed the existence of PPCPs in diverse environmental matrices, which provokes worry about prospective severe implications to biodiversity and humans. For this reason, this manuscript reviews the present state-of-the-art information on PPCPs in aquatic environment. The environment risk associated with abundance of PPCPs was established based on occurrence, toxicity, and bioaccumulation. Existing information regarding the sources, migration, and degradation of these contaminants in the environment was provided. Subsequently, a comprehensive information concerning global PPCPs concentration in the aquatic environment was also provided. Carbamazepine appears to be the most persistent PPCPs judging from reports in literature based on different treatment strategies. A combined treatment strategy is recommended for improved removal efficiency of PPCPs in environmental media especially persistent PPCPs. A combination of microbial degradation with other treatment technologies will be the most effective for improved PPCPs eradication.
AB - Pharmaceuticals and personal care products (PPCPs) are distinct group of chemicals, specifically referred to as emerging environmental contaminants because of their intrinsic capacity to trigger diverse physiological effects in humans. Numerous research investigations have confirmed the existence of PPCPs in diverse environmental matrices, which provokes worry about prospective severe implications to biodiversity and humans. For this reason, this manuscript reviews the present state-of-the-art information on PPCPs in aquatic environment. The environment risk associated with abundance of PPCPs was established based on occurrence, toxicity, and bioaccumulation. Existing information regarding the sources, migration, and degradation of these contaminants in the environment was provided. Subsequently, a comprehensive information concerning global PPCPs concentration in the aquatic environment was also provided. Carbamazepine appears to be the most persistent PPCPs judging from reports in literature based on different treatment strategies. A combined treatment strategy is recommended for improved removal efficiency of PPCPs in environmental media especially persistent PPCPs. A combination of microbial degradation with other treatment technologies will be the most effective for improved PPCPs eradication.
KW - Antibiotics
KW - Aquatic environment
KW - Bioaccumulation
KW - Combination strategy
KW - Removal efficiency
U2 - 10.1016/j.hazadv.2022.100206
DO - 10.1016/j.hazadv.2022.100206
M3 - Journal article
VL - 9
JO - Journal of Hazardous Materials Advances
JF - Journal of Hazardous Materials Advances
SN - 2772-4166
M1 - 100206
ER -