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1. Pharmaceuticals and personal care products (PPCPs) in the freshwater aquatic environment
March 2017
Anekwe Jennifer Ebele | Mohamed Abou-Elwafa Abdallah | Stuart Harrad
Pharmaceuticals and personal care products (PPCPs) are a unique group of emerging environmental contaminants, due to their inherent ability to induce physiological effects in human at low doses. An...
2. An insight of environmental contamination of arsenic on animal health
March 2017
Paramita Mandal
The main threats to human health from heavy metals are associated with exposure to lead, cadmium, mercury and arsenic. Exposure to arsenic is mainly via intake of food and drinking water, food being...
3. Occurrence, sources and fate of pharmaceuticals and personal care products in the groundwater: A review
November 2015
Qian Sui | Xuqi Cao | Shuguang Lu | Wentao Zhao | Zhaofu Qiu | Gang Yu
The presence of pharmaceuticals and personal care products (PPCPs) in the aquatic environment may pose potential threat to the ecosystem and human health, hence PPCPs have aroused much concern over...
4. Emerging contaminants as global environmental hazards. A bibliometric analysis
2020
Howard Ramírez-Malule | Diego H. Quiñones-Murillo | Diego Manotas-Duque
This paper presents a bibliometric analysis of peer-reviewed scientific literature on emerging contaminants published from 2000 through 2019. A total of 4968 documents (among research articles and review...
5. Plastic litter in the European Arctic: What do we know?
2019
Claudia Halsband | Dorte Herzke
Despite an exponential increase in available data on marine plastic debris globally, information on levels and trends of plastic pollution and especially microplastics in the Arctic remains scarce....
6. Levels and trends of poly- and perfluoroalkyl substances in the Arctic environment – An update
2019
Derek Muir | Rossana Bossi | Pernilla Carlsson | Marlene Evans | Amila De Silva | Crispin Halsall | Cassandra Rauert | Dorte Herzke | Hayley Hung | Robert Letcher | Frank Rigét | Anna Roos
Poly- and perfluoroalkyl substances (PFASs) are important environmental contaminants globally and in the early 2000s they were shown to be ubiquitous contaminants in Arctic wildlife. Previous reviews...
7. Sources and environmental fate of pyrogenic polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in the Arctic
2019
Jennifer E. Balmer | Hayley Hung | Yong Yu | Robert J. Letcher | Derek C.G. Muir
Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) are large class of hydrophobic, semi-volatile organic contaminants that may enter the environment from both natural sources and anthropogenic activities. Pyrogenic...
8. Early life exposure to per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFASs): A critical review
June 2017
Kerstin Winkens | Robin Vestergren | Urs Berger | Ian T. Cousins
Due to the dynamic developmental processes during pregnancy, infancy, childhood and adolescence, exposure to PFASs is hypothesized to have the most pronounced negative effects during this period. In...
9. Occurrence, seasonal variation and human exposure to pharmaceuticals and personal care products in surface water, groundwater and drinking water in Lagos State, Nigeria
2020
Anekwe Jennifer Ebele | Temilola Oluseyi | Daniel S. Drage | Stuart Harrad | Mohamed Abou-Elwafa Abdallah
The occurrence of 28 pharmaceuticals and personal care products (PPCPs) was investigated in 17 surface water samples (rivers, canals, and lagoons), 12 groundwater samples (wells and boreholes, which...
10. Flammability standards for furniture, building insulation and electronics: Benefit and risk
Available online 16 June 2020
Joseph A. Charbonnet | Roland Weber | Arlene Blum
Flammability standards for furniture, building insulation and electronics were established in an attempt to mitigate fire risk. However, research suggests that some of these flammability standards should...
11. Temporal trends of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in the influent of two of the largest wastewater treatment plants in Australia
2019
Hue T. Nguyen | Sarit L. Kaserzon | Phong K. Thai | Soumini Vijayasarathy | Jennifer Bräunig | Nicholas D. Crosbie | Anders Bignert | Jochen F. Mueller
Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) are found ubiquitously in wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) due to their multiple sources in industry and consumer products. In Australia, limited spatial...
12. Contaminants of emerging concern in landfill leachate in China: A review
2018
Chengdu Qi | Jun Huang | Bin Wang | Shubo Deng | Yujue Wang | Gang Yu
This review paper summarizes the occurrence, removal and ecological risk of contaminants of emerging concern (CEC) reported in landfill leachate in China since 1996 (43 studies in 10 regions). Results...
13. Chlorinated paraffins in the technosphere: A review of available information and data gaps demonstrating the need to support the Stockholm Convention implementation
2020
Yago Guida | Raquel Capella | Roland Weber
Chlorinated paraffins (CPs) have been produced for a wide range of applications, mostly in open uses, such as metalworking fluids, lubricants, coolants or additives in consumer goods. The production...
14. Disposal of waste-based fuels and raw materials in cement plants in Germany and Switzerland – What can be learned for global co-incineration practice and policy?
2020
Josef Waltisberg | Roland Weber
The limit value for emissions of total organic carbon (TOC) for incinerators in the European Union (EU) is 10 mg/m3. However, clinker burning is a material conversion process during which TOC emissions...
15. Assessing the persistence of pharmaceuticals in the aquatic environment: Challenges and needs
September 2016
Qingwei Bu | Xiao Shi | Gang Yu | Jun Huang | Bin Wang
Chemical’s persistence is known to be an important parameter applied for decades to identify persistent organic pollutants in hazard and/or risk assessments. Nevertheless it is greatly challenged in...
16. Intensification of the degradation of Acid RED-18 using hydrodynamic cavitation
2020
Prashant B. Dhanke | Sameer M. Wagh
In this work degradation of Acid Red-18 (AR-18) was examined in the hydrodynamic cavitation reactor. Orifice plates with different holes geometry are used to determine the optimum plate to carry out...
17. Translocation of pharmaceuticals and personal care products (PPCPs) into plant tissues: A review
15 December 2017
Raya Salim Al-Farsi | Mushtaque Ahmed | Ahmed Al-Busaidi | B.S. Choudri
Occurrence and fate of pharmaceuticals and personal care products (PPCPs) in the environment and the potential consequences for human health is of serious concern. In the current review, we have tried...
18. Toxicological effects of TiO2 nanoparticles on plant growth promoting soil bacteria
2020
Sangeeta Chavan | Vishwas Sarangdhar | Vigneshwaran Nadanathangam
Emerging contaminants like metal nanoparticles get introduced into soil through different routes. Toxic effects of these contaminants on plant growth-promoting bacteria (PGPB), which influence plant...
19. A review of chlorinated paraffin contamination in Arctic ecosystems
2019
Katrin Vorkamp | Jennifer Balmer | Hayley Hung | Robert J. Letcher | Frank F. Rigét
Chlorinated paraffins (CPs) present a complex mixture of congeners which are often analysed and assessed as short-, medium- and long-chain CPs, i.e. ΣSCCP (C10–C13), ΣMCCP (C14–C17) and ΣLCCP (≥C18)....
20. Antibiotics in two municipal sewage treatment plants in Sri Lanka: Occurrence, consumption and removal efficiency
2019
Dilanka N.D. Samaraweera | Xin Liu | Guangcai Zhong | Tilak Priyadarshana | Riffat Naseem Malik | Gan Zhang | Mahdi Safaei Khorram | Zewen Zhu | Xianzhi Peng
Most of the monitoring data on the occurrence of antibiotics in sewage treatment plants (STPs) have been reported from Europe, North America and some countries in Northeast Asia, while very limited...
21. Use of simulated sunlight radiation and hydrogen peroxide in azithromycin removal from aqueous solutions: Optimization & mineralization analysis
2020
Pablo Andrés Cano | Marcela Jaramillo-Baquero | Henry Zúñiga-Benítez | Yudy A. Londoño | Gustavo A. Peñuela
Azithromycin (AZT) is a broad-spectrum antibiotic from the group of macrolides that acts against several Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacteria, which has promoted its use in the treatment of different...
22. A review of halogenated natural products in Arctic, Subarctic and Nordic ecosystems
2019
Terry F. Bidleman | Agneta Andersson | Liisa M. Jantunen | John R. Kucklick | Henrik Kylin | Robert J. Letcher | Mats Tysklind | Fiona Wong
Halogenated natural products (HNPs) are organic compounds containing bromine, chlorine, iodine, and rarely fluorine. HNPs comprise many classes of compounds, ranging in complexity from halocarbons to...
23. Levels and trends of current-use pesticides (CUPs) in the arctic: An updated review, 2010–2018
2019
Jennifer E. Balmer | Adam D. Morris | Hayley Hung | Liisa Jantunen | Katrin Vorkamp | Frank Rigét | Marlene Evans | Magali Houde | Derek C.G. Muir
Global regulations and many regional and national controls restrict the use of substances that exhibit the potential for environmental persistence and long-range transport. Nevertheless, many current-use...
24. Wastewater treatment plants and release: The vase of Odin for emerging bacterial contaminants, resistance and determinant of environmental wellness
2020
Bright E. Igere | Anthony I. Okoh | Uchechukwu U. Nwodo
Municipal wastewater consists of a downstream collection of flushed sewage (without solid waste), other household runoffs, industrial runoffs, hospital runoffs and agricultural runoffs through an underground...
25. Pay special attention to the transformation products of PPCPs in environment
June 2017
Lina Yin | Bin Wang | Honglin Yuan | Shubo Deng | Jun Huang | Yujue Wang | Gang Yu
Pharmaceuticals and personal care products (PPCPs) have received increasing attention. However, their transformation products (TPs) and metabolites, sometimes even with environmental concentration and/or...
