| Medicinal
waters: Where ibuprofen goes
Swiss chemists
found that unlike some other water-polluting drugs, ibuprofen breaks
down in waste-treatment plants.
References:
Buser, H.-R., T.
Poiger, and M.D. Müller. 1999. Occurrence and environmental behavior
of the chiral pharmaceutical drug ibuprofen in surface waters and in
wastewater. Environmental Science & Technology 33(Aug.
1):2529.
______. 1998.
Occurrence and fate of the pharmaceutical drug diclofenac in surface
waters: Rapid photodegradation in a lake. Environmental Science
& Technology 32(Nov. 15):3449.
Further Readings:
Buser, H., M.D.
Müller, and N. Theobald. 1998. Occurrence of the pharmaceutical drug
clofibric acid and the herbicide mecoprop in various Swiss lakes and in
the North Sea. Environmental Science & Technology 32(Jan.
1):88.
Hallung-Serensen,
B., et al. 1998. Occurrence, fate and effects of pharmaceutical
substances in the environment—a review. Chemosphere
36(January):357.
Heberer, T. 1997.
Determination of the clofibric acid and N-(phenylsulfonyl)-sarcosine in
sewage, river and drinking water. Journal of Environmental Analytical
Chemistry 3:1.
Heberer, T., et
al. 1997. Detection of drugs and drug metabolites in ground water
samples of a drinking water treatment plant. Fresenius Environmental
Bulletin 6:438.
Raloff, J. 1998. Drugged waters. Science
News 152(March 21):187.
Sources:
Hans-Rudolf
Buser
Swiss Federal Research Station
CH-8820 Wädenswil
Switzerland
From Science
News, Vol. 156, No. 8, August 21, 1999, p. 126. Copyright © 1999,
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