Suspect screening of wastewaters to trace anti-COVID-19 drugs: Potential adverse effects on aquatic environment.

ABSTRACT: During the first period of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, the lack of specific therapeutic treatments led to the provisional use of a number of drugs, with a continuous review of health protocols when new scientific evidence emerged. The management of this emergency sanitary situation could not take care of the possible indirect adverse effects on the environment, such as the release of a large amount of pharmaceuticals from wastewater treatment plants. The massive use of drugs, which were never used so widely until then, implied new risks for the aquatic environment. In this study, a suspect screening approach using Liquid Chromatography-High Resolution Mass Spectrometry techniques, allowed us to survey the presence of pharmaceuticals used for COVID-19 treatment in three WWTPs of Lombardy regio

SUBMITTER: Cappelli F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8830926 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature