• openAccess   Assessing alcohol consumption through wastewater-based epidemiology: Spain as case study 

      López-García, Ester; Pérez López, Carlos; Postigo, Cristina; Andreu, Vicente; Bijlsma, Lubertus; González-Mariño, Iria; Hernandez, Felix; Marcé, Rosa María; Montes, Rosa; Picó Gracia, Yolanda; Pocurull, Eva; Rico, Andreu; rodil, rosario; Rosende, María; Valcárcel, Yolanda; ZULOAGA ZUBIETA, OLATZ; Quintana, José Benito; López de Alda, Miren Elsevier (2020-08-19)
      Background In this study, an alternative and complementary method to those approaches currently used to estimate alcohol consumption by the population is described. This method, known as wastewater-based epidemiology ...
    • openAccess   Comprehensive study on the potential environmental risk of temporal antibiotic usage through wastewater discharges 

      Gracia-Marín, Elisa; Rico, Andreu; Fabregat-Safont, David; Lopez, Francisco; Hernandez, Felix; Pitarch, Elena; Bijlsma, Lubertus Elsevier (2023-10-31)
      Antibiotic residues can reach aquatic ecosystems through urban wastewater discharges, posing an ecotoxicological risk for aquatic organisms and favoring the development of bacterial resistance. To assess the emission rate ...
    • openAccess   Ecological risk assessment of pesticides in the Mijares River (eastern Spain) impacted by citrus production using wide-scope screening and target quantitative analysis 

      Bijlsma, Lubertus; Pitarch, Elena; Hernandez, Felix; Fonseca, Eddie; Marín, José M.; Ibáñez, Maria; Portoles, Tania; Rico, Andreu Elsevier (2021-02-02)
      The widespread use of pesticides, especially in agricultural areas, makes necessary to control their presence in surrounding surface waters. The current study was designed to investigate the occurrence and ecological risks ...
    • openAccess   First nation-wide estimation of tobacco consumption in Spain using wastewater-based epidemiology 

      Montes, Rosa; Rodil, Rosario; Rico, Andreu; Cela, Rafael; González-Mariño, Iria; Hernandez, Felix; Bijlsma, Lubertus; Celma, Alberto; Picó Gracia, Yolanda; Andreu, Vicente; López de Alda, Miren; López-García, Ester; Postigo, Cristina; Pocurull, Eva; Marcé, Rosa María; Rosende, María; Olivares, Maitane; Valcárcel, Yolanda; Quintana, José Benito Elsevier (2020-11-01)
      Wastewater-based epidemiology (WBE) has become a very useful tool to monitor a population’s drug consumption or exposure to environmental and food contaminants. In this work, WBE has been applied to estimate tobacco ...
    • openAccess   Occurrence and ecological risks of pharmaceuticals in a Mediterranean river in Eastern Spain 

      Fonseca Rubí, Eddie; Hernandez, Felix; Ibáñez, Maria; Rico, Andreu; Pitarch, Elena; Bijlsma, Lubertus Elsevier (2020-11)
      Pharmaceuticals are biologically active molecules that may exert toxic effects to a wide range of aquatic organisms. They are considered contaminants of emerging concern due to their common presence in wastewaters and in ...
    • openAccess   The embodiment of wastewater data for the estimation of illicit drug consumption in Spain 

      Bijlsma, Lubertus; Picó, Yolanda; Andreu, Vicente; Celma, Alberto; Estévez Danta, Andrea; González-Mariño, Iria; Hernandez, Felix; López de Alda, Miren; López-García, Ester; Marcé-Recasens, Rosa Maria; Miró, Manuel; Montes, Rosa; Pérez de San Román Landa, Unai; Pitarch, Elena; Pocurull, Eva; Postigo, Cristina; Prieto Sobrino, Ailette; Rico, Andreu; Rodil, Rosario; Valcárcel, Yolanda; Ventura, Mireia; Quintana, José Benito Elsevier (2021)
      Data obtained from wastewater analysis can provide rapid and complementary insights in illicit drug consumption at community level. Within Europe, Spain is an important country of transit of both cocaine and cannabis. The ...
    • openAccess   Wide-scope screening of pharmaceuticals, illicit drugs and their metabolites in the Amazon River 

      Fabregat-Safont, David; Ibañez Martinez, Maria; Bijlsma, Lubertus; Hernandez, Felix; Waichman, Andrea; Oliveira, Rhaul; Rico, Andreu IWA Publishing (2021-05-17)
      Only a limited number of households in the Amazon are served by sewage collection or treatment facili- ties, suggesting that there might be a significant emission of pharmaceuticals and other wastewater contaminants into ...