• closedAccess   Analytical investigation of cannabis biomarkers in raw urban wastewater to refine consumption estimates 

      Campos-Mañas, Marina Celia; Van Wichelen, Natan; Covaci, Adrian; van Nuijs, Alexander; Ort, Christoph; Been, Frederic; Castiglioni, Sara; Hernandez, Felix; Bijlsma, Lubertus Elsevier (2022-08)
      Wastewater analysis of Δ9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) biomarkers can provide essential information on trends in cannabis consumption. Although analysis is mostly focused on the aqueous phase, previous studies have illustrated ...
    • openAccess   Drug use by music festival attendees: A novel triangulation approach using self-reported data and test results of oral fluid and pooled urine samples 

      Gjerde, Hallvard; Gjersing, Linn; Baz Lomba, Jose Antonio; Bijlsma, Lubertus; Salgueiro-González, Noelia; Furuhaugen, Havard; Bretteville-Jensen, Anne LIne; Hernandez, Felix; Castiglioni, Sara; Amundsen, Ellen Johanna; Zuccato, Ettore Taylor & Francis (2019)
      Background: Self-reported data are commonly used when investigating illicit substance use. However, self-reports have well-known limitations such as limited recall and socially desirable responding. Mislabeling or ...
    • closedAccess   Enantiomeric profiling of chiral illicit drugs in a pan-European study 

      Castrignanò, Erika; Yang, Zhugen; Bade, Richard; Baz Lomba, Jose Antonio; Castiglioni, Sara; Causanilles, Ana; Covaci, Adrian; GRACIA LOR, EMMA; Hernandez, Felix; Kinyua, Juliet; McCall, Ann Kathrin; van Nuijs, Alexander; Ort, Christoph; Plosz, Benedek; Ramin, Pedram; Rousis, Nikolaos I; Ryu, Yeonsuk; Thomas, Kevin V.; de Voogt, Pim; Zuccato, Ettore; Kasprzyk-Hordern, Barbara Elsevier (2018)
      The aim of this paper is to present the first study on spatial and temporal variation in the enantiomeric profile of chiral drugs in eight European cities. Wastewater-based epidemiology (WBE) and enantioselective analysis ...
    • closedAccess   Evaluation of Uncertainties Associated with the Determination of Community Drug Use through the Measurement of Sewage Drug Biomarkers 

      Castiglioni, Sara; Bijlsma, Lubertus; Covaci, Adrian; Emke, Erik; Hernandez, Felix; Reid, Malcolm; Ort, Christoph; Thomas, Kevin V.; van Nuijs, Alexander; de Voogt, Pim; Zuccato, Ettore American Chemical Society (2013)
      The aim of this study was to integrally address the uncertainty associated with all the steps used to estimate community drug consumption through the chemical analysis of sewage biomarkers of illicit drugs. Uncertainty has ...
    • openAccess   Increased levels of the oxidative stress biomarker 8-iso-prostaglandin F2α in wastewater associated with tobacco use 

      Ryu, Yeonsuk; GRACIA LOR, EMMA; Bade, Richard; Baz Lomba, Jose Antonio; Bramness, Jorgen; Castiglioni, Sara; Castrignanò, Erika; Causanilles, Ana; Covaci, Adrian; de Voogt, Pim; Hernandez, Felix; Kasprzyk-Hordern, Barbara; Kinyua, Juliet; McCall, Ann-Kathrin; Ort, Christoph; Plosz, Benedek; Ramin, Pedram; Rousis, Nikolaos I; Reid, Malcolm; Thomas, Kevin V. Nature Publishing Group (2016)
      Wastewater analysis has been demonstrated to be a complementary approach for assessing the overall patterns of drug use by a population while the full potential of wastewater-based epidemiology has yet to be explored. ...
    • closedAccess   International snapshot of new psychoactive substance use: Case study of eight countries over the 2019/2020 new year period 

      Bade, Richard; White, Jason M.; Chen, Jingjing; Baz Lomba, Jose Antonio; Been, Frederic; Bijlsma, Lubertus; Universitat Jaume I. Departament de Química Física i Analítica; Burgard, Daniel A.; Castiglioni, Sara; Salgueiro-González, Noelia; Celma, Alberto; Universitat Jaume I. Departament de Química Física i Analítica; Chappell, Andrew; Emke, Erik; Steenbeek, Ruud; Wang, Degao; Zuccato, Ettore; Gerber, Cobus Elsevier (2021-02-03)
      There is considerable concern around the use of new psychoactive substances (NPS), but still little is known about how much they are really consumed. Analysis by forensics laboratories of seized drugs and post-mortem samples ...
    • openAccess   Monitoring a large number of pesticides and transformation products in water samples from Spain and Italy 

      Rousis, Nikolaos I; Bade, Richard; Bijlsma, Lubertus; Zuccato, Ettore; Sancho, Juan V; Hernandez, Felix; Castiglioni, Sara Elsevier (2017-07)
      Assessing the presence of pesticides in environmental waters is particularly challenging because of the huge number of substances used which may end up in the environment. Furthermore, the occurrence of pesticide transformation ...
    • openAccess   Monitoring psychoactive substance use at six European festivals through wastewater and pooled urine analysis 

      Bijlsma, Lubertus; Celma, Alberto; Castiglioni, Sara; Salgueiro-González, Noelia; Bou Iserte, Lledó; Baz Lomba, Jose Antonio; Reid, Malcolm; Dias, M.J.; Lopes, Alvaro; Matias, Joao Luis; Pastor Alcañiz, Laura; Radonic, J.; Turk Sekulic, M.; Shine, Trevor; van Nuijs, Alexander; Hernandez, Felix; Zuccato, Ettore Elsevier (2020-07-10)
      The consumption of psychoactive substances is considered a growing problem in many communities. Moreover, new psychoactive substances (NPS) designed as (legal) substitutes to traditional illicit drugs are relatively easily ...
    • closedAccess   New psychoactive substances in several European populations assessed by wastewater-based epidemiology 

      Castiglioni, Sara; Salgueiro-González, Noelia; Bijlsma, Lubertus; Celma, Alberto; GRACIA LOR, EMMA; Beldean-Galea, Mihail Simion; Mackuľak, Tomáš; Emke, Erik; Heath, Ester; Kasprzyk-Hordern, Barbara; Kovacevic, Andjelka; Poretti, Francesco; Rangelov, Jeliaz; Santos, Miguel M.; Sremački, Maja; Hernandez, Felix; Zuccato, Ettore Elsevier (2021)
      Wastewater-based epidemiology (WBE) can be a useful tool to face some of the existing challenges in monitoring the use of new psychoactive substances (NPS), as it can provide objective and updated infor- mation. This ...
    • openAccess   One planet: one health. A call to support the initiative on a global science–policy body on chemicals and waste 

      Brack, Werner; Barcelo Culleres, Damia; Boxall, Alistair Bruce Alleyne; Budzinsk, Hélène; Castiglioni, Sara; Covaci, Adrian; Hernandez, Felix SpringerOpen (2022-03-08)
      The chemical pollution crisis severely threatens human and environmental health globally. To tackle this challenge the establishment of an overarching international science–policy body has recently been suggested. We ...
    • openAccess   Spatial and temporal assessment of crack cocaine use in 13 European cities through wastewater-based epidemiology 

      Steenbeek, Ruud; Emke, Erik; Vughs, Dennis; Matias, Joao Luis; Boogaerts, Tim; Castiglioni, Sara; Campos-Mañas, Marina Celia; Covaci, Adrian; de Voogt, Pim; ter Laak, Thomas; Hernandez, Felix; Salgueiro-González, Noelia; Meijer, Wim; Dias, Mario J.; Simoes, Susana; van Nuijs, Alexander; Bijlsma, Lubertus; Been, Frederic Elsevier (2022-07-25)
      Already in early 2000s, concerns have been growing in the EU about increasing use of cocaine and it is estimated that below 1% of the population administer the drug by smoking crack cocaine. New available data suggests ...
    • openAccess   Three years of wastewater surveillance for new psychoactive substances from 16 countries 

      Bade, Richard; Rousis, Nikolaos I; Adhikari, Sangeet; Baduel, Christine; Bijlsma, Lubertus; Bizani, Erasmia; Boogaerts, Tim; Burgard, Daniel A.; Castiglioni, Sara; Chappell, Andrew; Covaci, Adrian; Driver, Erin M.; Fabriz Sodré, Fernando; Fatta-Kassinos, Despo; Galani, Aikaterini; Gerber, Cobus; GRACIA LOR, EMMA; Gracia-Marín, Elisa; Halden, Rolf; Heath, Ester; Hernandez, Felix; Yin Lai, Foon; Lee, Heon-Jun; Laimou-Geraniou, Maria; Oh, Jeong-Eun; Olafsdottir, Kristin; Phung, Kaitlyn; Pineda Castro, Marco; Psichoudaki, Magda; Shao, Xueting; Salgueiro-González, Noelia; Silva Feitosa, Rafael; Silvino Gomes, Cezar; Subedi, Bikram; Löve, Arndís; Thomaidis, Nikolaos; Tran, Diana; van Nuijs, Alexander; Verovšek, Taja; Wang, Degao; White, Jason; Yargeau, Viviane; Zuccato, Ettore; Mueller, Jochen Elsevier (2023-05)
      The proliferation of new psychoactive substances (NPS) over recent years has made their surveillance complex. The analysis of raw municipal influent wastewater can allow a broader insight into community consumption patterns ...
    • closedAccess   Wastewater-based epidemiology for the assessment of population exposure to chemicals: The need for integration with human biomonitoring for global One Health actions 

      Kasprzyk-Hordern, Barbara; Been, Frederic; Bijlsma, Lubertus; Brack, Werner; Castiglioni, Sara; Covaci, Adrian; Martincigh, Bice; Mueller, Jochen; van Nuijs, Alexander; Oluseyi, Temilola; Thomas, Kevin Elsevier (2023-02-28)
      WBE has now become a complimentary tool in SARS-CoV-2 surveillance. This was preceded by the established application of WBE to assess the consumption of illicit drugs in communities. It is now timely to build on this and ...
    • closedAccess   Wastewater-based epidemiology to assess pan-European pesticide exposure 

      Rousis, Nikolaos I; GRACIA LOR, EMMA; Zuccato, Ettore; Bade, Richard; Baz Lomba, Jose Antonio; Castrignanò, Erika; Causanilles, Ana; Covaci, Adrian; de Voogt, Pim; Hernandez, Felix; Kasprzyk-Hordern, Barbara; Kinyua, Juliet; McCall, Ann-Kathrin; Plosz, Benedek; Ramin, Pedram; Ryu, Yeonsuk; Thomas, Kevin; van Nuijs, Alexander; Yang, Zhugen; Castiglioni, Sara Elsevier (2017)
      Human biomonitoring, i.e. the determination of chemicals and/or their metabolites in human specimens, is the most common and potent tool for assessing human exposure to pesticides, but it suffers from limitations such as ...