TY - JOUR
T1 - Pharmaceuticals and personal care products (PPCPs)
T2 - A review on environmental contamination in China
AU - Liu, Jin Lin
AU - Wong, Ming Hung
N1 - Funding Information:
Financial support from Seed Collaborative Research Fund from the State Key Laboratory in Marine Pollution ( SCRF0003 ) and National Natural Science Foundation of China/Research Grants Council ( N_HKBU210/11 ) are gratefully acknowledged.
PY - 2013/9
Y1 - 2013/9
N2 - Pharmaceuticals and personal care products (PPCPs) which contain diverse organic groups, such as antibiotics, hormones, antimicrobial agents, synthetic musks, etc., have raised significant concerns in recently years for their persistent input and potential threat to ecological environment and human health. China is a large country with high production and consumption of PPCPs for its economic development and population growth in recent years. This may result in PPCP contamination in different environmental media of China. This review summarizes the current contamination status of different environment media, including sewage, surface water, sludge, sediments, soil, and wild animals, in China by PPCPs. The human body burden and adverse effects derived from PPCPs are also evaluated. Based on this review, it has been concluded that more contamination information of aquatic environment and wildlife as well as human body burden of PPCPs in different areas of China is urgent. Studies about their environmental behavior and control technologies need to be conducted, and acute and chronic toxicities of different PPCP groups should be investigated for assessing their potential ecological and health risks.
AB - Pharmaceuticals and personal care products (PPCPs) which contain diverse organic groups, such as antibiotics, hormones, antimicrobial agents, synthetic musks, etc., have raised significant concerns in recently years for their persistent input and potential threat to ecological environment and human health. China is a large country with high production and consumption of PPCPs for its economic development and population growth in recent years. This may result in PPCP contamination in different environmental media of China. This review summarizes the current contamination status of different environment media, including sewage, surface water, sludge, sediments, soil, and wild animals, in China by PPCPs. The human body burden and adverse effects derived from PPCPs are also evaluated. Based on this review, it has been concluded that more contamination information of aquatic environment and wildlife as well as human body burden of PPCPs in different areas of China is urgent. Studies about their environmental behavior and control technologies need to be conducted, and acute and chronic toxicities of different PPCP groups should be investigated for assessing their potential ecological and health risks.
KW - China
KW - Contamination
KW - Pharmaceuticals and personal care products (PPCPs)
KW - Sewage
KW - Surface water
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84880169877&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.envint.2013.06.012
DO - 10.1016/j.envint.2013.06.012
M3 - Review article
C2 - 23838081
AN - SCOPUS:84880169877
SN - 0160-4120
VL - 59
SP - 208
EP - 224
JO - Environment International
JF - Environment International
ER -