Authors
John L Wilkinson, Alistair BA Boxall, Dana W Kolpin, Kenneth MY Leung, Racliffe WS Lai, Cristóbal Galbán-Malagón, Aiko D Adell, Julie Mondon, Marc Metian, Robert A Marchant, Alejandra Bouzas-Monroy, Aida Cuni-Sanchez, Anja Coors, Pedro Carriquiriborde, Macarena Rojo, Chris Gordon, Magdalena Cara, Monique Moermond, Thais Luarte, Vahagn Petrosyan, Yekaterina Perikhanyan, Clare S Mahon, Christopher J McGurk, Thilo Hofmann, Tapos Kormoker, Volga Iniguez, Jessica Guzman-Otazo, Jean L Tavares, Francisco Gildasio De Figueiredo, Maria TP Razzolini, Victorien Dougnon, Gildas Gbaguidi, Oumar Traoré, Jules M Blais, Linda E Kimpe, Michelle Wong, Donald Wong, Romaric Ntchantcho, Jaime Pizarro, Guang-Guo Ying, Chang-Er Chen, Martha Páez, Jina Martínez-Lara, Jean-Paul Otamonga, John Poté, Suspense A Ifo, Penelope Wilson, Silvia Echeverría-Sáenz, Nikolina Udikovic-Kolic, Milena Milakovic, Despo Fatta-Kassinos, Lida Ioannou-Ttofa, Vladimíra Belušová, Jan Vymazal, María Cárdenas-Bustamante, Bayable A Kassa, Jeanne Garric, Arnaud Chaumot, Peter Gibba, Ilia Kunchulia, Sven Seidensticker, Gerasimos Lyberatos, Halldór P Halldórsson, Molly Melling, Thatikonda Shashidhar, Manisha Lamba, Anindrya Nastiti, Adee Supriatin, Nima Pourang, Ali Abedini, Omar Abdullah, Salem S Gharbia, Francesco Pilla, Benny Chefetz, Tom Topaz, Koffi Marcellin Yao, Bakhyt Aubakirova, Raikhan Beisenova, Lydia Olaka, Jemimah K Mulu, Peter Chatanga, Victor Ntuli, Nathaniel T Blama, Sheck Sherif, Ahmad Zaharin Aris, Ley Juen Looi, Mahamoudane Niang, Seydou T Traore, Rik Oldenkamp, Olatayo Ogunbanwo, Muhammad Ashfaq, Muhammad Iqbal, Ziad Abdeen, Aaron O’dea, Jorge Manuel Morales-Saldaña, María Custodio, Heidi de la Cruz, Ian Navarrete, Fabio Carvalho, Alhaji Brima Gogra, Bashiru M Koroma, Vesna Cerkvenik-Flajs, Mitja Gombač, Melusi Thwala, Kyungho Choi, Habyeong Kang, John L Celestino Ladu, Andreu Rico, Priyanie Amerasinghe, Anna Sobek, Gisela Horlitz, Armin K Zenker, Alex C King, Jheng-Jie Jiang, Rebecca Kariuki, Madaka Tumbo, Ulas Tezel, Turgut T Onay, Julius B Lejju, Yuliya Vystavna, Yuriy Vergeles, Horacio Heinzen, Andrés Pérez-Parada, Douglas B Sims, Maritza Figy, David Good, Charles Teta
Publication date
2022/2/22
Journal
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Volume
119
Issue
8
Pages
e2113947119
Publisher
National Academy of Sciences
Description
Environmental exposure to active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) can have negative effects on the health of ecosystems and humans. While numerous studies have monitored APIs in rivers, these employ different analytical methods, measure different APIs, and have ignored many of the countries of the world. This makes it difficult to quantify the scale of the problem from a global perspective. Furthermore, comparison of the existing data, generated for different studies/regions/continents, is challenging due to the vast differences between the analytical methodologies employed. Here, we present a global-scale study of API pollution in 258 of the world’s rivers, representing the environmental influence of 471.4 million people across 137 geographic regions. Samples were obtained from 1,052 locations in 104 countries (representing all continents and 36 countries not previously studied for API contamination) and …
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