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Evaluation of psychiatric hospital wastewater toxicity: what is its impact on aquatic organisms?
The primary source of pharmaceuticals to the aquatic environment is the discharge of wastewater effluents. Pharmaceuticals are a large and diverse group of compounds. Among them, psychotropic substances are pa...
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Occurrence of pharmaceuticals in WWTP effluents and their impact in a karstic rural catchment of Eastern France
The occurrence of pharmaceuticals in freshwater ecosystems provokes increasing concern due to their potential risk to non-target organisms and to human health. Pharmaceuticals are used in both human and veteri...
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How to Assess Temporal Changes of Point and Diffuse Contamination in a Rural Karstic Watershed? Relevance of Suspended Particulate Matter (SPM) for Efficient Monitoring
Waste water treatment plants (WWTP) have attracted attention in numerous studies in their impact on receiving surface waters because of the presence of varied contaminants in their effluents. This study invest...
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Psychotropic drugs in mixture alter swimming behaviour of Japanese medaka (Oryzias latipes) larvae above environmental concentrations
Psychiatric pharmaceuticals, such as anxiolytics, sedatives, hypnotics and antidepressors, are among the most prescribed active substances in the world. The occurrence of these compounds in the environment, as...
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PAH occurrence in chalk river systems from the Jura region (France). Pertinence of suspended particulate matter and sediment as matrices for river quality monitoring
This study investigates the variations of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) levels in surface water, suspended particulate matter (SPM) and sediment upstream and downstream of the discharges of two wastewa...
