Ecotoxicity of wastewater from medical facilities: A review

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="https://www.degruyter.com/downloadpdf/j/sab.2018.49.issue-1/sab-2018-0005/sab-2018-0005.pdf" target="_blank" >https://www.degruyter.com/downloadpdf/j/sab.2018.49.issue-1/sab-2018-0005/sab-2018-0005.pdf</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/sab-2018-0005" target="_blank" >10.2478/sab-2018-0005</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Ecotoxicity of wastewater from medical facilities: A review

Original language description

Wastewater from medical facilities contains a wide range of chemicals (in particular pharmaceuticals, disinfectants, heavy metals, contrast media, and radionuclides) and pathogens, therefore it constitutes a risk to the environment and human health. Many micropollutants are not efficiently eliminated during wastewater treatment and contaminate both surface water and groundwater. As we lack information about the long-term effects of low concentrations of micropollutants in the aquatic environment, it is not possible to rule out their adverse effects on aquatic organisms and human health. It is, therefore, necessary to focus on the evaluation of chronic toxicity in particular when assessing the environmental and health risks and to develop standards for the regulation of hazardous substances in wastewater from medical facilities on the basis of collected data. Wastewater from medical facilities is a complex mixture of many compounds that may have synergetic, antagonistic or additive effects on organisms. To evaluate the influence of a wide range of pollutants contained in the effluents from medical facilities on aquatic ecosystems, it is necessary to determine their ecotoxicity.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_SC - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

30108 - Toxicology

Project

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Continuities

V - Vyzkumna aktivita podporovana z jinych verejnych zdroju

Publication year

2018

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Scientia Agriculturae Bohemica

ISSN

1211-3174

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

49

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1

Country of publishing house

CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

Number of pages

6

Pages from-to

26-31

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85045938796