Exposures: Children, recreational, ocupational, Dermal contact with biosolids Ingestion: Biosolids, crops, drinking water
The equivalent of one therapeutic dose or 1 d home exposure was used
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Criteria developed to select representative pharmaceuticals for the study
Brown et al., 2019
ADI, Acceptable Daily Intake; EDI, Estimated Daily Intake; DWEL, Drinking Water Equivalent Level; HBL, Health-Based Level; RSD, Risk-Specific Dose; A, Cyclophosphamide; B, Ofloxacin; C, Acetaminophen; D, Sulphamethoxazole; E, 17α Ethinylestradiol; F, Erythromycin; G, Ciprofloxacin.
In aquatic systems and even in the human body, pharmaceuticals are modified by environmental stressors which subsequently change the exposure scenario (Oskarsson et al., 2014). Although individual pharmaceuticals are used in very small quantities (therapeutic dose), the presence of several similar pharmaceuticals (sharing same mode of action) may cause additive or synergistic exposures, and diversified stressor-receptor effects to non-target species (Daughton and Ternes, 1999). However as shown in Table 2.1, most studies on human health risks were conducted in developed countries (Shulman et al., 2002; Nimmen et al., 2006; Tomasi et al., 2016; Kibuye et al., 2019; Brown et al., 2019). This occurs despite the fact that the presence of pharmaceuticals in the environment is of global concern irrespective of level of industrialization (Kurster and Adler, 2014).
Research attention on human health risks should focus on
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