Journal
FRONTIERS OF ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & ENGINEERING
Volume 10, Issue 6, Pages -Publisher
HIGHER EDUCATION PRESS
DOI: 10.1007/s11783-016-0868-4
Keywords
Surface water; Sediment; Antibiotics; Geographical distribution; Risk assessment
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- State Key Laboratory of Pollution Control and Resource Reuse Foundation [PCRRY 11017]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [21577033, 51208199, 51408425]
- Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities [22A201514057]
- Beijing Key Laboratory for Emerging Organic Contaminants Control
- Specialized Research Fund for the Doctoral Program of Higher Education of China [20130072120033]
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Pharmaceuticals and personal care products (PPCPs) have been regarded as an emerging problem in the surface water environment in the past few decades. In China, although related studies were initiated several years ago, an increasing number of studies on this topic have been conducted in recent years. These studies have expanded knowledge of their occurrence, behavior and associated risk in the surface water environment in China. This review compiles the most recent literature related to the studies of PPCPs in the surface water environment in China. It includes PPCP occurrence in surface water and sediments, their geographical distribution, and outcomes of the associated risk assessment. It shows that antibiotics have received much more attention in both surface water and sediments than other PPCPs. Compared to other countries; most antibiotics in the collected sediments in China showed higher contamination levels. Many more study areas have been covered in recent years; however, attention has been given to only specific areas. Environmental risk assessment based on risk quotients indicated that sulfamethoxazole presents the most significant environmental risk to relevant aquatic organisms; followed by ofloxacin, ciprofloxacin, enrofloxacin, 17 alpha-ethynylestradiol, ibuprofen and diclofenac. Despite limited research on the environmental risk assessment of PPCPs in sediments, higher risks posed by PPCPs in the sediments rather than surface water were identified highlighting the need for further risk assessment of PPCPs in sediment samples. (C) Higher Education Press and Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2016
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