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

Prosser, Ryan S.; Sibley, Paul K.

doi:10.1016/j.envint.2014.11.020

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“…Antibiotics are not only widely used in medicine to save human lives or to control disease in factory farming (Durso and Cook 2014;Gothwal and Shashidhar 2015), resulting in lots of antibiotics in wastewater treatment plant (Michael et al 2013;Zhou et al 2013) and livestock manure (Ho et al 2014(Ho et al , 2015Prosser and Sibley 2015). However, conventional sewage treatment facilities were never designed to deal with pharmaceutical compounds, so the removal efficiency of antibiotics was not stable and lots of antibiotics were discharged into the environment (Michael et al 2013).…”

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“…Antibiotics in soils has showed toxic effect on soil microorganism (Liu et al 2015;Reichel et al 2015) and plant (Du and Liu 2012;Jin et al 2009). So, it is critical to assess the levels of antibiotics in soils to avoid potential health risk via plant Prosser and Sibley 2015). Degradation and adsorption were the two main environmental behaviors of antibiotics in soil.…”

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Occurrence, composition and risk assessment of antibiotics in soils from Kenya, Africa

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Antibiotics can accumulate in soils via different ways, which may pose serious threat to ecological environment of soil and quality of agricultural products. In this study, the occurrence of 12 antibiotics including four sulfonamides (SAs), four tetracyclines (TETs) and four fluoroquinolones (FQs) was investigated in soils from four sampling sites of Kenya (Mai Mahiu, Narok, Mount Suswa Conservancy, and Juja), Africa. The soils in suburban area of Narok had the highest average concentrations of total 12 antibiotics with an average value of 43.64 μg kg(-1) dw (dry weight), followed by Mai Mahiu (26.70 μg kg(-1) dw), Juja (24.41 μg kg(-1) dw) and Mount Suswa Conservancy (12.21 μg kg(-1) dw). Sulfamethoxazole, sulfamethazine, oxytetracycline, and enrofloxacin were identified as the main antibiotics polluted in soils. Total organic carbon may influence the distribution of SAs in Narok and FQs in Juja. Ecological risk analysis based on the risk quotient showed that SAs detected in soils have higher risk compared to TETs and FQs.

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Occurrence, composition and risk assessment of antibiotics in soils from Kenya, Africa

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“…As a consequence, PPCPs are frequently detected in many aquatic and terrestrial environments (Luo et al 2014;Monteiro and Boxall 2010;Verlicchi and Zambello 2015). Increasing evidences suggest that environmental residues of PPCPs could adversely affect non-target organisms, ecosystem functions, and even human health (Prosser and Sibley 2015;Rosi-Marshall and Royer 2012;Wilkinson et al 2016). Due to their widespread use and bioactive nature, PPCPs are considered as a group of contaminants of emerging concern, and have drawn growing attention over the past decades from the scientific community and the public (Daughton and Ternes 1999;Evgenidou et al 2015).…”

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Removal of pharmaceuticals and personal care products from wastewater using algae-based technologies: a review

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Pharmaceuticals and personal care products (PPCPs) consist of a variety of compounds extensively used for the treatment of human and animal diseases and for health or cosmetic reasons. PPCPs are considered as emerging environmental contaminants due to their ubiquitous presence in the environment and high environmental risks. In wastewater treatment plants using conventional activated sludge processes, many PPCPs cannot be efficiently removed. Therefore, there is an increasing need for more effective and cost-efficiency ways of removing PPCPs while treating wastewater. Algae-based technologies have recently attracted growing attentions for their potential application in wastewater treatment and hazardous contaminant removal, which are advantages in reducing operation cost while generating valuable products and sequestrating greenhouse gases at the same time. This work reviews the up-to date researches to reveal potential toxic effects of PPCPs on algae and algae-bacteria consortia, identify mechanisms involved in PPCP removal, and assess the fate of PPCPs in algae-based treatment systems. Current researches suggest that algae and algae-bacteria consortia have great potentials in PPCP removal but more works are required before algae-based technologies can be implemented in large scales. Knowledge gaps are identified and further research focuses are proposed in this review.

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“…The relevance for human and animal health of the potential uptake and accumulation in edible plant tissues after irrigation with wastewater of relevant contaminants, including the so-called compounds of emerging concern (CEC), e.g. pharmaceutical compounds (Malchi et al, 2014;Prosser and Sibley, 2015), should be discussed critically.…”

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Request for scientific and technical assistance on proposed EU minimum quality requirements for water reuse in agricultural irrigation and aquifer recharge

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At the request of the European Union Joint Research Centre, a Joint Research Centre draft report on European Union minimum quality requirements for water reuse in agricultural irrigation was reviewed, to determine whether: the methodology used was appropriate, the defined food crop categories were appropriate, the proposed minimum quality requirements were sufficient, and any risks had been overlooked. The European Food Safety Authority recommends that: (1) a full description of the methodology used in reviewing and assessing the literature, regulations and guidelines is provided; (2) there is a separate category for feed crops and pasture; (3) there is explicit mention of the fact that the tolerable level of risk used in the World Health Organization guidelines is formally accepted by European risk managers, and that information is provided on the data supporting the impact of the minimum quality requirements on public and animal health; (4) relevant publications on concentrations, dose-response relationships and disease burden for all the waterborne pathogens in treated wastewater in Europe consulted for the elaboration of this document are explicitly referenced in the document; (5) the quantitative microbial risk assessment outputs used in the document are revised on the basis of more recent information and European data; (6) risk assessment studies should inform whether the applied treatment ensures a sufficient decrease/removal of the hazard(s); (7) full clarity is provided on why specific indicator organisms are recommended for assessing the probability of the presence of pathogens; (8) an inventory of hazards to animal health in urban wastewater, and an explanation of why the proposed minimum quality requirements are considered appropriate to protect animal health, are provided; (9) reasoning on the lack of minimum quality requirements for chemical contaminants is provided; and (10) critical discussion on the importance of the uptake and accumulation of chemical contaminants, including compounds of emerging concern and disinfectant by-products, and the possible consequences for human and animal health, is included.

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

Cited by 280 publications

References 65 publications

Occurrence, composition and risk assessment of antibiotics in soils from Kenya, Africa

Occurrence, composition and risk assessment of antibiotics in soils from Kenya, Africa

Removal of pharmaceuticals and personal care products from wastewater using algae-based technologies: a review

Request for scientific and technical assistance on proposed EU minimum quality requirements for water reuse in agricultural irrigation and aquifer recharge

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