Pharmaceuticals and illicit drugs – A new threat to the application of sewage sludge in agriculture

Ivanová, Lucia; Martı́n, Tomás; Grabic, Roman; Golovko, Oksana; Koba, Olga; Staňová, Andrea Vojs; Szabová, Petra; Grenčíková, Anna; Bodı́k, Igor

doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2018.04.001

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“…Reclaimed wastewater is also increasingly utilized for irrigation in countries that have not previously suffered from a water shortage but face a change in a rainfall distribution throughout a year and a scarcity of water during vegetation seasons due to climate change (e.g., Helmecke et al, 2020). Another product of wastewater management is sewage sludge, which is frequently used as amendment to increase organic matter and nutrient content in soils (e.g., Ivanová et al, 2018;Verlicchi and Zambello, 2015). It has been documented that some pollutants of emerging concern, such as human pharmaceuticals, are not entirely removed from treated wastewater (e.g., Peña-Guzmán et al, 2019;Khan et al, 2020;Loos et al, 2013).…”

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“…It has been documented that some pollutants of emerging concern, such as human pharmaceuticals, are not entirely removed from treated wastewater (e.g., Peña-Guzmán et al, 2019;Khan et al, 2020;Loos et al, 2013). Similarly, sewage sludge can contain a large number of pharmaceuticals, and some of them can occur in high concentrations (e.g., Ivanová et al, 2018;Kodešová et al, 2019b;Verlicchi and Zambello, 2015). The environment can also be polluted by veterinary pharmaceuticals from animal urine or farm waste (e.g., Charuaud et al, 2019).…”

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How microbial community composition, sorption and simultaneous application of six pharmaceuticals affect their dissipation in soils

Kodešová

Chroňáková

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Science of The Total Environment

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Soils groups according to basic soils properties and sorption of compounds matched. • Soils groups according to microbial community structure and half-lives corresponded. • Half-lives could be predicted using one microbial criterion and sorption coefficient. • Simultaneous application of all compounds mostly reduced their dissipation in soils. • The average increase in multiple-solute half-lives varied between 7 and 39%.

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How microbial community composition, sorption and simultaneous application of six pharmaceuticals affect their dissipation in soils

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et al. 2020

Science of The Total Environment

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“…Numerous studies have shown that sewage sludges can also be a source of priority substances and priority hazardous substances in the field of water policy, i.e. substances that are listed in Annex X of the Water Framework Directive [2][3][4][5]. Due to the fact that the fertilizer is used in the cultivation of food plants, it is important to analyse its potential impact on human health.…”

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Environmental Safety Assessment of Fertilizer Products

Zawadzki¹,

Głodniok²

2020

Pol. J. Environ. Stud.

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The danger posed by sewage sludges, although subjected to various treatment processes, contributes to the fact that fertilizers introduced into the soil pose a sanitary and ecological threat. Minimizing the risk of using fertilizers produced from sewage sludges is possible due to legal regulations, the most important of which are the Act of 26 July 2000 on fertilizers and fertilization and numerous regulations of the Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development. Due to the fact that some parameters such as pharmaceutical substances have not been included in legal regulations, comprehensive researches on the impact of fertilizers produced from sewage sludges are justified, in particular with regard to soil, ground and water environment and also on the quality of crops. Taking into account the current legal regulations and the diverse composition of sewage sludges, full safety analysis including both biological analyses and risk assessment is necessary to perform. As part of this work, the possibilities of environmental safety assessment of fertilizer products based on stabilized municipal sewage sludges are presented. This article presents the most popular methods of sewage sludge safety analysis in the following environment: leachate, ground and surface waters, soil and plants.

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“…In general, SHS-based procedures are simple, fast paced (allowing an increased sample throughput), and compatible with a variety of instrumental techniques for a wide range of analytes [29]. The demand of new chemicals for pharmaceutical [30], cosmetic [31], or industrial [32] purposes has a major global impact on water quality in the developed societies. These compounds are considered as contaminants of emerging concern (CECs) and require a strong legislation by agencies [33] to control and prevent its presence in the environment [34].…”

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Application of Switchable Hydrophobicity Solvents for Extraction of Emerging Contaminants in Wastewater Samples

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In the present work, the effectiveness of switchable hydrophobicity solvents (SHSs) as extraction solvent (N,N-Dimethylcyclohexylamine (DMCA), N,N-Diethylethanamine (TEA), and N,N-Benzyldimethylamine (DMBA)) for a variety of emerging pollutants was evaluated. Different pharmaceutical products (nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs), hormones, and triclosan) were selected as target analytes, covering a range of hydrophobicity (LogP) of 3.1 to 5.2. The optimized procedure was used for the determination of the target pharmaceutical analytes in wastewater samples as model analytical problem. Absolute extraction recoveries were in the range of 51% to 103%. The presented method permits the determination of the target analytes at the low ng mL−1 level, ranging from 0.8 to 5.9 (except for Triclosan, 106 ng mL−1) with good precision (relative standard deviation lower than 6%) using high-pressure liquid chromatography (HPLC) combined with ultraviolet (DAD) and fluorescence (FLR) detection. The microextraction alternative resulted in a fast, simple, and green method for a wide variety of analytes in environmental water sample. The results suggest that this type of solvent turns out to be a great alternative for the determination of different analytes in relatively complex water samples.

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Pharmaceuticals and illicit drugs – A new threat to the application of sewage sludge in agriculture

Cited by 106 publications

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How microbial community composition, sorption and simultaneous application of six pharmaceuticals affect their dissipation in soils

How microbial community composition, sorption and simultaneous application of six pharmaceuticals affect their dissipation in soils

Environmental Safety Assessment of Fertilizer Products

Application of Switchable Hydrophobicity Solvents for Extraction of Emerging Contaminants in Wastewater Samples

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