Pharmaceutical Residues in Senior Residences Wastewaters: High Loads, Emerging Risks.

ABSTRACT: Senior residences are health-care facilities that are socially-accepted for the assistance of elderly people. Since the elderly account for the foremost pharmaceutical-consuming age-group, senior residences become a hot-spot for pharmaceuticals discharge to the sewage grid. The objectives of the present study were to identify the bioactive pharmaceuticals in sewage waters from senior residences and to propose an on-site monitoring strategy for their control. In this study, we have studied the presence of 43 pharmaceuticals highly consumed by the elderly population in six senior residences located in Spain, France and Portugal. Wastewater was sampled directly from the water-chest in each residence during different times of the day throughout one week. Main compounds detected at the high µg

SUBMITTER: Lacorte S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8399164 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature