Ecopharmacovigilance : multidisciplinary approaches to environmental safety of medicines /: multidisciplinary approaches to environmental safety of medicines. ([2019])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Volume editor: Leobardo Manuel Gómez-Oliván ; with contributions by D. Arizmendi-Cotero [and more].
• Editors: Gómez-Oliván, Leobardo Manuel
• Contents: Introduction.- Background to the emergence of ecophamacovigilance.- Pharmaceuticals reaching the environment: concepts, evidence and concerns.- Ocurrence of pharmaceuticals in the environment.- Detection of pharmaceuticals in the environment.- Ecotoxicological studies of pharmaceuticals in the environment.- Legislation to control the discharge of pharmaceuticals in the environment.- Advanced Oxidation Processes I: Ozonation and Fenton processes applied to the removal of pharmaecuticals.- Advanced Oxidation Processes II: removal of pharmaecuticals by photocatalysis.- Role of membrane on emerging contaminants removal.- Bacterial treatment to remove pharmaceuticals.- Biological methods for the detection, quantification and decontamination of environmental compartments.- Application of nanomaterials for treatment of waste water containing pharmaceuticals.- In silico mutagenesis, docking and molecular dynamics: their role in biosensor design for environmental analysis and monitoring.- Impact of pharmaceutical waste on biodiversity.- Control of environmental pollution caused by pharmaceuticals.
• Publisher Details: Cham, Switzerland : Springer
• Publication Date: 2019
• Extent: 1 online resource (xiv, 271 pages)
• Subjects: 363.738; Environment; Drugs -- Environmental aspects; Drugs -- Toxicology; Water -- Pollution; Environmental toxicology; Environmental chemistry; Analytical biochemistry; Geochemistry; Drugs -- Toxicology; Environmental toxicology; Water -- Pollution; Science -- Chemistry -- Analytic; Science -- Environmental Science; Science -- Earth Sciences -- General; Analytical chemistry; Environmental science, engineering & technology; Geochemistry; Environmental monitoring; Pollution & threats to the environment; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783319734767; 3319734768
• Related ISBNs: 9783319734750
• Notes: Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed July 9, 2018).
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