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Occurrence and fate of illicit drugs and pharmaceuticals in wastewater from two wastewater treatment plants in Costa Rica
dc.contributor.author | Causanilles, Ana | |
dc.contributor.author | Ruepert, Clemens | |
dc.contributor.author | Ibáñez, Maria | |
dc.contributor.author | Emke, Erik | |
dc.contributor.author | Hernandez, Felix | |
dc.contributor.author | de Voogt, Pim | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2017-06-07T17:48:08Z | |
dc.date.available | 2017-06-07T17:48:08Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2017 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Causanilles, A., Ruepert, C., Ibáñez, M., Emke, E., Hernández, F., & de Voogt, P. (2017). Occurrence and fate of illicit drugs and pharmaceuticals in wastewater from two wastewater treatment plants in Costa Rica. Science of The Total Environment, 2017, vol. 599-600, 98-107 | ca_CA |
dc.identifier.issn | 0048-9697 | |
dc.identifier.issn | 1879-1026 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10234/167923 | |
dc.description.abstract | Chemical analysis of raw wastewater in order to assess the presence of biological markers entering a wastewater treatment plant can provide objective information about the health and lifestyle of the population connected to the sewer system. This work was performed in a tropical country of Central America, Costa Rica, with the aim of extending this knowledge to new world regions. This work is the first to report wastewater-based epidemiological data on the use of illicit drugs in this region of the world. Composite wastewater samples from the influents of two different wastewater treatment facilities and surface water samples from surrounding areas were collected applying the best practice protocol and analysed to investigate the occurrence and fate of selected illicit drugs of abuse and pharmaceuticals. Results showed the presence of chemical indicators of the classic drugs cocaine and cannabis at high concentration levels, besides the moderate presence of the opiates codeine and morphine. Neither the worldwide commonly used psychoactive substances of abuse such as synthetic phenethylamines, nor pharmaceuticals from the family of benzodiazepines were detected, demonstrating the spatial differences in drug use among different world regions. In addition, effluent wastewater samples were analysed and compared to influent concentrations in order to evaluate the decrease in concentration of the targeted analytes through two treatment technologies. As a final step, a wide-scope qualitative screening, including hundreds of suspect compounds, was applied in order to have a better knowledge on the presence of pharmaceuticals in waters and to assess the potential impact of the treated wastewater into the receiving aquatic ecosystems. | ca_CA |
dc.description.sponsorShip | We would like to thank Ing. Karla Ordoñez Sequeira, Ing. Roylan Álvarez Barrantes and Ing. Andrés Lazo Paez from Instituto Costarricense de Acueductos y Alcantarillados (AyA) for allowing the access to the WWTPs and the wastewater samples, and providing the information on the questionnaires; Ph.D. Andrea Suárez Serrano and licda. Daniela Rojas Cantillano from Centro de Recursos Hídricos para Centroamérica y el Caribe , Sede Regional Chorotega , Campus Liberia (HIDROCEC-UNA) for their support while sampling in Liberia and the access to laboratory facilities; Ph.D. Luisa Castillo, MSc. Karla Solano Díaz and MSc. Seiling Vargas Villalobos from the Central American Institute for Studies on Toxic Substances , Universidad Nacional , Heredia (IRET-UNA) for their support while preparing the fi eldwork material, during sampling at El Roble and in the laborato- ry; WWTP operators at Liberia and El Roble for their assistance dur- ing sampling; Alfonso A. Martínez Vicente for making the graphical abstract and Figs. 1 and S.1. Ana Causanilles acknowledges the Euro- pean Union for her Early Stage Researcher contract as part of the EU- International Training Network SEWPROF (Marie Curie-PEOPLE Grant #317205). Part of this work was supported by the COST Action ES1307 “ SCORE - Sewage biomarker analysis for community health assessment ” . | ca_CA |
dc.format.extent | 10 p. | ca_CA |
dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | ca_CA |
dc.language.iso | eng | ca_CA |
dc.publisher | Elsevier | ca_CA |
dc.relation.isPartOf | Science of The Total Environment, 2017, vol. 599-600 | ca_CA |
dc.rights | © 2017 Published by Elsevier B.V. | ca_CA |
dc.rights.uri | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ | * |
dc.subject | Drugs of abuse | ca_CA |
dc.subject | Pharmaceuticals | ca_CA |
dc.subject | Wastewater | ca_CA |
dc.subject | High-resolution mass spectrometry | ca_CA |
dc.subject | Central America | ca_CA |
dc.subject | Tropics | ca_CA |
dc.title | Occurrence and fate of illicit drugs and pharmaceuticals in wastewater from two wastewater treatment plants in Costa Rica | ca_CA |
dc.type | info:eu-repo/semantics/article | ca_CA |
dc.identifier.doi | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2017.04.202 | |
dc.rights.accessRights | info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess | ca_CA |
dc.relation.publisherVersion | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0048969717310471 | ca_CA |
dc.type.version | info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion | ca_CA |
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