Environmental Risk Assessment of Active Human Pharmaceutical Ingredients in Urban Rivers in Japan
| Autor: | Kimiyo Watanabe, Toshinari Suzuki, Yuki Kosugi, Tetsuji Nishimura, Haruka Iida |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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Chemistry General Chemistry General Medicine River water Risk Assessment Aquatic organisms Toxicology chemistry.chemical_compound Dilution ratio Japan Pharmaceutical Preparations Rivers Drug Discovery Humans Christian ministry Sewage treatment Effluent Water Pollutants Chemical Environmental risk assessment Environmental Monitoring |
| Zdroj: | Chemicalpharmaceutical bulletin. 69(9) |
| ISSN: | 1347-5223 |
| Popis: | Active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) have become a public concern owing to their possible adverse effects on aquatic organisms. Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare in Japan (MHLW) issued "Guidance on the Environmental Risk Assessment (ERA) in new pharmaceutical development" in 2016. To evaluate the validity of phase 1 in the MHLW's ERA guidance, we monitored the measured environmental concentrations (MECs) of approved APIs in urban rivers and sewage treatment plants (STPs) in Japan and compared these MECs with the predicted environmental concentration (PEC). We collected water samples from urban seven rivers and three STPs during each season. Fifty-one APIs for human and veterinary use and the artificial sweetener sucralose were analyzed by liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS). Forty-four APIs were observed in the rivers and 42 were found in the influent and effluent of STPs, with levels ranging from nanograms to micrograms per liter. The action limit in phase I of the MHLW's guidance was set to 10 ng/L, and there was no API except for ketoprofen, for which PEC of the MHLW's guidance (PECjapan) was lower than 10 ng/L and the maximum MEC (MECmax) was 10 ng/L or greater. Almost all APIs also had median MECs that were lower than those of the respective PECjapan. These results indicate that the PECjapan values in phase I of the MHLW's guidance were appropriate. However, some APIs had MECmax values that were greater than those of the respective PECjapan due to overestimation of the dilution factor of river water and/or underestimation of API production. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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