Uptake of pharmaceutical and personal care products by soybean plants from soils applied with biosolids and irrigated with contaminated water.

Many pharmaceuticals and personal care products (PPCPs) are commonly found in biosolids and effluents from wastewater treatment plants. Land application of these biosolids and the reclamation of treated wastewater can transfer those PPCPs into the terrestrial and aquatic environments, giving rise to potential accumulation in plants. In this work, a greenhouse experiment was used to study the uptake of three pharmaceuticals (carbamazepine, diphenhydramine, and fluoxetine) and two personal care products (triclosan and triclocarban) by an agriculturally important species, soybean (Glycine max (L.

Dissipation and leaching potential of selected pharmaceutically active compounds in soils amended with biosolids.

Biosolids land application is an important pathway introducing pharmaceuticals into the environment. In this work, laboratory column and dissipation experiments were performed using soils of varying properties in order to study the fate and transport of pharmaceutical residues introduced by the land application of biosolids. For experimentation, five pharmaceutical compounds (carbamazepine, diphenhydramine, fluoxetine, diltiazem, and clindamycin) and two metabolites (carbamazepine-10,11-epoxide and norfluoxetine) commonly found in biosolids were selected.

Occurrence of selected pharmaceuticals in an agricultural landscape, western Lake Erie basin.

The occurrence of 18 commonly used pharmaceuticals was investigated in an agricultural area, which is primarily affected by runoff from agricultural fields and septic systems, on the coastline of Maumee Bay, within the western Lake Erie basin. Selected pharmaceuticals were detected in surface water, except clofibric acid and fluoxethine. The most frequently detected compounds were caffeine (88%), carbamazepine (57%) and paraxanthine (56%).