Runoff of pharmaceuticals and personal care products following application of biosolids to an agricultural field

Topp, Edward; Monteiro, Sara C.; Beck, Andrew; Coelho, B. Ball; Boxall, Alistair B.A.; Duenk, Peter; Kleywegt, Sonya; Lapen, David R.; Payne, Michael A.; Sabourin, Lyne; Li, Hongxia; Metcalfe, Chris D.

doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2008.02.011

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“…Topp et al (2008) found the concentration of pharmaceuticals and personal care products in surface water runoff to decrease when biosolids were injected, compared to broadcast application methods which left more compounds on the soil surface to interact with runoff. …”

Section: General Detection Frequencies and Distributionsmentioning

confidence: 96%

A Scoping Study of Livestock Antimicrobials in Agricultural Streams of Alberta

Forrest¹,

Lorenz²,

Thompson³

et al. 2011

Canadian Water Resources Journal

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Section: General Detection Frequencies and Distributionsmentioning

confidence: 96%

A Scoping Study of Livestock Antimicrobials in Agricultural Streams of Alberta

Forrest¹,

Lorenz²,

Thompson³

et al. 2011

Canadian Water Resources Journal

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“…Alternatively, they may possibly leak into surrounding water compartments [39,40]. d) Impacts due to anthropogenic activities; as, for instance, Sewage Treatment Plant (STP) sludge, which can carry non-suspected drugs and is frequently used as a fertilizer on agricultural land [41,42]; veterinary medicines, which are also excreted in urine and faeces by animals before being spread onto land via manure application as fertilisers. Apart from the potential for direct soil contamination, there is also the risk of run-off with heavy rain, thus potentially contaminating both the surround-ing surface and groundwater [42][43][44].…”

Section: Sources Of Environmental Contaminationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…d) Impacts due to anthropogenic activities; as, for instance, Sewage Treatment Plant (STP) sludge, which can carry non-suspected drugs and is frequently used as a fertilizer on agricultural land [41,42]; veterinary medicines, which are also excreted in urine and faeces by animals before being spread onto land via manure application as fertilisers. Apart from the potential for direct soil contamination, there is also the risk of run-off with heavy rain, thus potentially contaminating both the surround-ing surface and groundwater [42][43][44]. Other example of an anthropogenic activity is aquaculture, whose pharmaceuticals employed, as well as their metabolites and degradation prod-ucts, are directly discharged into surface waters [45,46].…”

Section: Sources Of Environmental Contaminationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Ecotoxicological aspects related to the presence of pharmaceuticals in the aquatic environment

Santos

Araújo

Fachini

et al. 2010

Journal of Hazardous Materials

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Pharmaceuticals are biologically active and persistent substances which have been recognized as a con-tinuing threat to environmental stability. Chronic ecotoxicity data as well as information on the current distribution levels in different environmental compartments continue to be sparse and are focused on those therapeutic classes that are more frequently prescribed and consumed. Nevertheless, they indicate the negative impact that these chemical contaminants may have on living organisms, ecosystems and ultimately, public health. This article reviews the different contamination sources as well as fate and both acute and chronic effects on nontarget organisms. An extensive review of existing data in the form of tables, encompassing many therapeutic classes is presented.Keywords: Pharmaceuticals, Sources, Environmental fate, Ecotoxicological effects

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“…Aqueous sewage effluent is also being used increasingly for irrigation, particularly in water-stressed regions of the world [26]. Agricultural applications of sewagederived biosolids containing human pharmaceuticals are currently dwarfed by the use of livestock manure (dung and urine) containing veterinary drugs, as fertilizer [27]. Veterinary drugs also may be released into the environment both directly (e.g.…”

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Medicating the environment: assessing risks of pharmaceuticals to wildlife and ecosystems

Arnold

Brown

Ankley

et al. 2014

Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B

362

187

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Global pharmaceutical consumption is rising with the growing and ageing human population and more intensive food production. Recent studies have revealed pharmaceutical residues in a wide range of ecosystems and organisms. Environmental concentrations are often low, but pharmaceuticals typically are designed to have biological effects at low doses, acting on physiological systems that can be evolutionarily conserved across taxa. This Theme Issue introduces the latest research investigating the risks of environmentally relevant concentrations of pharmaceuticals to vertebrate wildlife. We take a holistic, global view of environmental exposure to pharmaceuticals encompassing terrestrial, freshwater and marine ecosystems in high- and low-income countries. Based on both field and laboratory data, the evidence for and relevance of changes to physiology and behaviour, in addition to mortality and reproductive effects, are examined in terms of the population- and community-level consequences of pharmaceutical exposure on wildlife. Studies on uptake, trophic transfer and indirect effects of pharmaceuticals acting via food webs are presented. Given the logistical and ethical complexities of research in this area, several papers focus on techniques for prioritizing which compounds are most likely to harm wildlife and how modelling approaches can make predictions about the bioavailability, metabolism and toxicity of pharmaceuticals in non-target species. This Theme Issue aims to help clarify the uncertainties, highlight opportunities and inform ongoing scientific and policy debates on the impacts of pharmaceuticals in the environment.

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Runoff of pharmaceuticals and personal care products following application of biosolids to an agricultural field

Cited by 189 publications

References 20 publications

A Scoping Study of Livestock Antimicrobials in Agricultural Streams of Alberta

A Scoping Study of Livestock Antimicrobials in Agricultural Streams of Alberta

Ecotoxicological aspects related to the presence of pharmaceuticals in the aquatic environment

Medicating the environment: assessing risks of pharmaceuticals to wildlife and ecosystems

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