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Title: Anthropogenic Impacts on the Environmental Concentrations of Pharmaceutical and Personal Care Products in Freshwater Ecosystems
Citation Type: Dissertation/Thesis
Publication Year: 2022
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Abstract: Pharmaceutical and personal care products (PPCPs) are chemical compounds used by humans to improve health and well-being. Once these compounds have served their purpose, the remaining waste material often makes its way into the environment (Petrie et al 2015). Because of their widespread use and potential impacts, PPCPs have been a growing concern as environmental pollutants. Although PPCPs are usually found in the environment at the nanogram to microgram per liter scale, even at these low concentrations some PPCPs have been identified to cause detrimental environmental impacts (Korekar et al 2020, Havens et al 2020, Vo et al 2019). A comprehensive monitoring program for PPCPs remains a difficult prospect due to the approximately 3000 known pharmaceutical substances, with new substances constantly in development (Rodriguez-Narvaez et al. 2017). Compounding this issue is the effort required to monitor low concentration substances utilizing highly technical and expensive equipment, and the lack of historic data on these substances across the environment due to the relatively recent environmental concern over their pollution (Rodriguez-Narvaez et al. 2017). Questions have been raised regarding the ecosystem and anthropogenic variables that influence the distribution of PPCPs in aquatic environments, but the specific impact of human population size and density has been often overlooked. This thesis sought to identify generalized patterns in these anthropogenic variables affecting PPCP distribution.
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Authors: Dipippa, Anthony
Institution: Kent State University
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Pages: 1-93
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Topics: Health, Natural Resource Management
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