Abstract

RAMOS ALVARINO, Caridad. Physic-chemical properties of human consumption drugs in water. Rev Cubana Hig Epidemiol [online]. 2009, vol.47, n.2. ISSN 0253-1751.

In recent past years it is recognized that the active pharmaceutical compounds in aquatic environment are one the emerging events in environmental chemistry, originated by disposition of the municipal, sewage, from hospitals and for production waters treated or not. Its presence originates an antibiotic resistance, affecting the treatment biological processes and exceeding the fitness for drinking, etc. The aim of present paper is to approach the features related to presence of wastes from human-consumption drugs present in water, its quantification and the physic-chemical characteristic, reported by many authors in past decade, it is a problem approaching the contamination provoking these compounds and the need of its study. Physic-chemical characteristic of drugs group were obtained consulting different databases and from study of more than 100 scientific articles on this matter. Its detection in water was demonstrated, concentration in water of the drugs selected and its physic-chemical characteristic was reported. It is recognized that these compounds potentially are carried in a majority was in aquiferous systems. We must to make a study in depth on this matter.

Keywords : Drug residues; wastewater; medical waste disposal; drugs, water quality.

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