PMID- 27026494
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20170512
LR  - 20170512
IS  - 1879-2456 (Electronic)
IS  - 0956-053X (Linking)
VI  - 55
DP  - 2016 Sep
TI  - Occurrence and treatment efficiency of pharmaceuticals in landfill leachates.
PG  - 257-64
LID - S0956-053X(16)30113-1 [pii]
LID - 10.1016/j.wasman.2016.03.029 [doi]
AB  - Landfill leachates might contain pharmaceuticals due to the expired or unwanted 
      drugs were disposed of at landfills. These pharmaceuticals might pose a threat to 
      soil and groundwater. Therefore, this study investigated the distributions of 
      pharmaceutical residues and toxicities among four typical municipal landfill 
      leachates. Twenty six pharmaceuticals were investigated in this study and fifteen 
      of them were found in all samples from four leachates. In addition, ampicillin 
      and methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA) were detected in urban landfills (A1 and 
      A2) but were not in rural and suburb landfills (B and C). On the other hand, some 
      compounds were much more abundant in suburb/rural landfill leachates than those 
      in urban landfills including diclofenac, gemfibrozil and amphetamine. Landfill 
      leachate treatment plants could not remove most of the pharmaceuticals 
      effectively. Landfill leachates without proper treatments would have significant 
      adverse health impacts on human and aquatic life.
CI  - Copyright (c) 2016 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
FAU - Lu, Mu-Chen
AU  - Lu MC
AD  - Department of Environmental, Safety and Health Engineering, Hungkuang University, 
      Taichung, Taiwan, ROC.
FAU - Chen, Yao Yin
AU  - Chen YY
AD  - Department of Environmental, Safety and Health Engineering, Hungkuang University, 
      Taichung, Taiwan, ROC.
FAU - Chiou, Mei-Rung
AU  - Chiou MR
AD  - Department of Environmental, Safety and Health Engineering, Hungkuang University, 
      Taichung, Taiwan, ROC.
FAU - Chen, Men Yu
AU  - Chen MY
AD  - Department of Environmental, Safety and Health Engineering, Hungkuang University, 
      Taichung, Taiwan, ROC.
FAU - Fan, Huan-Jung
AU  - Fan HJ
AD  - Department of Environmental, Safety and Health Engineering, Hungkuang University, 
      Taichung, Taiwan, ROC. Electronic address: fan@sunrise.hk.edu.tw.
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
DEP - 20160326
PL  - United States
TA  - Waste Manag
JT  - Waste management (New York, N.Y.)
JID - 9884362
RN  - 0 (Pharmaceutical Preparations)
RN  - 0 (Water Pollutants, Chemical)
SB  - IM
MH  - Groundwater
MH  - Pharmaceutical Preparations/*analysis
MH  - Refuse Disposal
MH  - *Waste Disposal Facilities
MH  - Waste Disposal, Fluid/*methods
MH  - Water Pollutants, Chemical/*analysis
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - Landfill leachate
OT  - Pharmaceuticals
OT  - Toxicity
OT  - Treatment
EDAT- 2016/03/31 06:00
MHDA- 2017/05/13 06:00
CRDT- 2016/03/31 06:00
PHST- 2015/11/04 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2016/03/08 00:00 [revised]
PHST- 2016/03/18 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2016/03/31 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2016/03/31 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2017/05/13 06:00 [medline]
AID - S0956-053X(16)30113-1 [pii]
AID - 10.1016/j.wasman.2016.03.029 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Waste Manag. 2016 Sep;55:257-64. doi: 10.1016/j.wasman.2016.03.029. Epub 2016 Mar 
      26.