Predicted environmental concentration and fate of the top 10 most dispensed Australian prescription pharmaceuticals

• Published in: Environmental science and pollution research international Vol. 25; no. 11; pp. 10966 - 10976
• Main Authors: Ong, Timothy T. X., Blanch, Ewan W., Jones, Oliver A. H.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin/Heidelberg Springer Berlin Heidelberg 01.04.2018; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Aquatic Pollution; Atmospheric Protection/Air Quality Control/Air Pollution; Atorvastatin; Australia; Bioaccumulation; drugs; Earth and Environmental Science; Ecological risk assessment; Ecotoxicology; Environment; Environmental assessment; Environmental Chemistry; Environmental Health; Environmental risk; Environmental science; food chain; Food chains; Labeling; Pharmaceuticals; Prescriptions; Research Article; risk; Risk Assessment; Sewage disposal; sewage treatment; Sewage treatment plants; Statins; Toxicity; Waste Water - analysis; Waste Water Technology; Wastewater; Wastewater treatment; Wastewater treatment plants; Water Management; Water Pollutants, Chemical - analysis; Water Pollutants, Chemical - chemistry; Water Pollution Control; Australia; Medicines; Risk assessment; Environmental fate; Modelling; Australia; EPI Suite; Wastewater

A basic environmental risk assessment was carried out for the top 10 dispensed pharmaceuticals in Melbourne, Australia, in contrast to the more commonly assessed measure of the most used drugs by physical mass. This allowed for the evaluation of compounds that had not previously been the subject of...