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Screening of pharmaceuticals and hormones at regional scale, in surface and groundwaters intended to human consumption
- Source :
- Environmental Pollution, Environmental Pollution, Elsevier, 2011, 159 (10), pp.2929-2934. ⟨10.1016/j.envpol.2011.04.033⟩
- Publication Year :
- 2011
- Publisher :
- HAL CCSD, 2011.
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Abstract
- International audience; As part of a regional screening to evaluate the risk, for the health of populations, to certain classes of emerging substances, several families of pharmaceuticals and hormones were looked for in waters intended to drinking. Thus, 52 substances were investigated in 71 surface waters and 70 groundwaters. Results indicate that no water was free of pollutants, regardless of its origin (surface or groundwater) and the season of collect. The pharmaceuticals most frequently detected and with the highest concentration levels were salicylic acid, carbamazepine and acetaminophen. Among hormones, testosterone, androstenedione and progesterone were detected in almost all the samples. Globally the groundwaters were less contaminated than surface waters in regards pharmaceuticals frequencies and levels. On the other side, androgens and progestagens were present with comparable frequencies and levels in both compartments. The risk linked to the presence of these substances on human health is discussed.
- Subjects :
- Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis
0211 other engineering and technologies
Fresh Water
02 engineering and technology
010501 environmental sciences
Toxicology
01 natural sciences
Human health
Water Supply
[CHIM.ANAL]Chemical Sciences/Analytical chemistry
Humans
Testosterone
Androstenedione
Groundwater
Progesterone
Acetaminophen
0105 earth and related environmental sciences
Risk assessment
Pollutant
021110 strategic, defence & security studies
Water pollutants
Environmental Exposure
General Medicine
Pollution
6. Clean water
Spe lc ms ms
Hormones
3. Good health
Groundwater chemistry
Water supplies
Carbamazepine
Pharmaceutical Preparations
13. Climate action
Environmental chemistry
Environmental science
Pharmaceuticals
SPE-LC-MS/MS
Salicylic Acid
Water Pollutants, Chemical
Hormone
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 02697491 and 18736424
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Environmental Pollution, Environmental Pollution, Elsevier, 2011, 159 (10), pp.2929-2934. ⟨10.1016/j.envpol.2011.04.033⟩
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....4ff5afd1b24c8f114c01a6260967ed7c
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envpol.2011.04.033⟩