Environmental and health impacts of pharmaceuticals in radish crops irrigated with reclaimed water.

ABSTRACT: The use of reclaimed water for crop irrigation can be an important route for pharmaceutical introduction into the food chain. This work aims to investigate the crop uptake, accumulation and translocation of 11 representative pharmaceuticals in radish crop through two realistic agricultural growing conditions (highland and fall radish). For this, radish crops were irrigated with three reclaimed water qualities: (i) WWTP effluent (named real effluent, RE), (ii) RE fortified with 5 µg/L of pharmaceuticals (named higher concentration, HC) and (iii) RE fortified with a concentration of pharmaceuticals 10 times lower than HC (0.5 µg/L, named medium concentration, MC). Results revealed that the pharmaceutical concentration in irrigation water does not play a role in radish quality. However, phyto

SUBMITTER: Benelhadj-Djelloul Guetni L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12443892 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature