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Andrea Vojs Staňová
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Correction to: High enrichment factors in chemical analysis of progestins and in bioassays: insights beyond trace levels
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High enrichment factors in chemical analysis of progestins and in bioassays: insights beyond trace levels
Concerns are growing about adverse effects of progestins on biota, even at ultra-trace concentrations. The enrichment factor (EF) from extraction of analytes in environmental samples that is needed for sample ...
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Open AccessThermal methods of sludge processing—are they suitable for pharmaceuticals and illicit drugs removal from sewage sludge?
The presented work aimed to investigate the effect of thermal treatment on sludge from wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) in the Slovak Republic on the content of pharmaceuticals (PhACs) and illicit drugs. Sl...
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Open AccessLC-HRMS method for study of pharmaceutical uptake in plants: effect of pH under aeroponic condition
Global climate changes cause water scarcity in many regions, and the sustainable use of recycled water appears crucial, especially in agriculture. However, potentially hazardous compounds such as pharmaceutica...
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Determination of citalopram in fish brain tissue: benefits of coupling laser diode thermal desorption with low- and high-resolution mass spectrometry
Recent state-of-the-art methods developed for the analysis of polar xenobiotics from different types of biological matrices usually employ liquid chromatography with mass spectrometry. However, there are limit...
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Ozonation: effective way for removal of pharmaceuticals from wastewater
The objective of the presented paper is to characterize the effectiveness of the removal of pharmaceuticals from wastewater during ozonation in laboratory-scale conditions. Almost 100 pharmaceuticals and their...
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Hospital wastewaters treatment: Fenton reaction vs. BDDE vs. ferrate(VI)
Various types of micropollutants, e.g., pharmaceuticals and their metabolites and resistant strains of pathogenic microorganisms, are usually found in hospital wastewaters. The aim of this paper was to study t...
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Treatment of hazardous leachate from landfill using ultrasound/H2O2 system
The necessity of leachates treatment from the waste landfills by new ways becomes increasingly more marked. Leachates contain toxic ingredients such as pesticides, dyes, and hormonal agents, which necessarily ...
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Monitoring of micropollutants and resistant bacteria in wastewater and their effective removal by boron doped diamond electrode
The first part of our study is focused on the analysis of wastewaters composition from the effluence of four Slovak and three Czech wastewater treatment plants. The presence of 30 psychoactive substances and t...
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Occurrence of pharmaceuticals, illicit drugs, and resistant types of bacteria in hospital effluent and their effective degradation by boron-doped diamond electrodes
Wastewaters are considered as a significant source of pathogenic microorganisms and a wide spectrum of pharmaceuticals. Disinfecting agents and antibiotics in these wastewaters can directly or indirectly influ...
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Determination of illicit drugs and their metabolites contamination on banknotes
In this study, the illicit drug contamination (24 selected psychoactive compounds) of banknotes collected in the Slovakia, Czech Republic, and Austria, and during music festivals, was studied using methanol ex...
