Occurrence, transformation, bioaccumulation, risk and analysis of pharmaceutical and personal care products from wastewater: a review

Uttpal Anand; Bashir Adelodun; Carlo Cabreros; Pankaj Kumar; S Suresh; Abhijit Dey; Florencio Ballesteros Jr; Elza Bontempi

doi:10.1007/s10311-022-01498-7

Occurrence, transformation, bioaccumulation, risk and analysis of pharmaceutical and personal care products from wastewater: a review

Environ Chem Lett. 2022;20(6):3883-3904. doi: 10.1007/s10311-022-01498-7. Epub 2022 Aug 17.

Authors

Uttpal Anand^{1

2}, Bashir Adelodun^{3

4}, Carlo Cabreros⁵, Pankaj Kumar⁶, S Suresh⁷, Abhijit Dey⁸, Florencio Ballesteros Jr⁵, Elza Bontempi⁹

Affiliations

¹ Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, 84105 Beer-Sheva, Israel.
² Zuckerberg Institute for Water Research, Jacob Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Midreshet Ben Gurion, 8499000, Israel.
³ Department of Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering, University of Ilorin, PMB 1515, Ilorin, Nigeria.
⁴ Department of Agricultural Civil Engineering, Kyungpook National University, Daegu, Republic of Korea.
⁵ Environmental Engineering Program, National Graduate School of Engineering, University of the Philippines, 1101 Diliman, Quezon City, Philippines.
⁶ Agro-Ecology and Pollution Research Laboratory, Department of Zoology and Environmental Science, Gurukula Kangri (Deemed to Be University), Haridwar, Uttarakhand 249404 India.
⁷ Department of Chemical Engineering, Maulana Azad National Institute of Technology, Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh 462 003 India.
⁸ Department of Life Sciences, Presidency University, 86/1 College Street, Kolkata, West Bengal 700073 India.
⁹ INSTM and Chemistry for Technologies Laboratory, University of Brescia, Via Branze 38, 25123 Brescia, Italy.

Abstract

Almost all aspects of society from food security to disease control and prevention have benefited from pharmaceutical and personal care products, yet these products are a major source of contamination that ends up in wastewater and ecosystems. This issue has been sharply accentuated during the coronavirus disease pandemic 2019 (COVID-19) due to the higher use of disinfectants and other products. Here we review pharmaceutical and personal care products with focus on their occurrence in the environment, detection, risk, and removal.

Supplementary information: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s10311-022-01498-7.

Keywords: Active pharmaceutical ingredients; COVID-19; Environmental pollution; Human health risk assessment; Pharmaceutical and personal care products (PPCPs); Wastewater treatment plants.

Publication types

Review