Anthropogenic
pollution
poses
a
threat
to
marine
organisms
and
ecosystems
worldwide.
Common
chemical
pollutants
that
enter
the
environment
include
legacy
contaminants,
which
are
well
known
heavily
regulated
or
banned
pollutants,
emerging
more
recently
recognized
as
often
lack
regulatory
limits
for
their
use
discharge.
Wastewater
treatment
plant
(WWTP)
effluent
is
major
source
of
various
contaminants
concern,
particularly
pharmaceutical
personal
care
products
(PPCPs)
not
fully
removed
during
treatment.
PPCPs
exist
at
low
concentrations
in
may
have
unknown
subtle
effects
on
life.
Data
gaps
occurrence,
effects,
remediation
options,
especially
coastal
areas
with
surrounding
populations.
Additionally,
few
studies
focus
environmentally
relevant
conditions
organism,
population
ecosystem
level
impacts.
Toxics,
Journal Year:
2023,
Volume and Issue:
11(4), P. 330 - 330
Published: March 30, 2023
Approximately
9%
of
couples
are
infertile,
with
half
these
cases
relating
to
male
factors.
While
many
infertility
associated
genetic
and
lifestyle
factors,
approximately
30%
still
idiopathic.
Contaminants
emerging
concern
(CECs)
denote
substances
identified
in
the
environment
for
first
time
or
detected
at
low
concentrations
during
water
quality
analysis.
Since
CEC
production
use
have
increased
recent
decades,
CECs
now
ubiquitous
surface
groundwater.
increasingly
observed
human
tissues,
parallel
reports
indicate
that
semen
is
continuously
declining,
supporting
notion
may
play
a
role
infertility.
This
narrative
review
focuses
on
several
(including
pesticides
pharmaceuticals)
nearshore
marine
False
Bay,
Cape
Town,
South
Africa,
deliberates
their
potential
effects
fertility
offspring
exposed
parents,
as
well
spermatozoa
toxicological
studies.
Collective
findings
report
chronic
vivo
exposure
pesticides,
including
atrazine,
simazine,
chlorpyrifos,
likely
be
detrimental
reproduction
organisms,
sperm
performance
vitro.
Similarly,
pharmaceuticals
such
diclofenac
naproxen
impairs
motility
both
These
contaminants
also
key
health
disease
sired
by
parents
CECs.
On
other
side
double-edged
sword,
we
propose
due
its
sensitivity
environmental
conditions,
could
used
bioindicator
eco-
repro-toxicology
Water Environment Research,
Journal Year:
2020,
Volume and Issue:
92(10), P. 1811 - 1817
Published: Aug. 17, 2020
Abstract
The
present
work
provides
a
review
focusing
on
contaminants
of
emerging
concern
(CECs)
in
aquatic
environment,
with
an
emphasis
their
occurrence,
monitoring,
fate,
and
risk
assessment
the
research
published
scientific
literature
2019.
Several
studies
revealed
that
these
organic
were
detected
many
water
bodies
suspect,
nontarget,
target
screening
provided
efficient
detection
for
co‐existing
substances
complex
components.
Wastewater
resource
recovery
facilities
concurrently
considered
as
central
source,
several
specific
chemicals
have
been
found
to
be
used
chemical
markers
track
source
CECs
some
urban
watersheds.
Reliable
reliable
fate/toxicity
assessment,
effective
removal
consider
heterogeneous
group
rather
than
single
will
challenges
community
future.
Environmental Monitoring and Assessment,
Journal Year:
2024,
Volume and Issue:
196(4)
Published: March 5, 2024
Abstract
Defining
the
environmental
occurrence
and
distribution
of
chemicals
emerging
concern
(CECs),
including
pharmaceuticals
personal
care
products
(PPCPs)
in
coastal
aquatic
systems,
is
often
difficult
complex.
In
this
study,
70
compounds
representing
several
classes
pharmaceuticals,
antibiotics,
anti-inflammatories,
insect
repellant,
antibacterial,
antidepressants,
chemotherapy
drugs,
X-ray
contrast
media
compounds,
were
found
dreissenid
mussel
(zebra/quagga;
Dreissena
spp.)
tissue
samples.
Overall
concentration
detection
frequencies
varied
significantly
among
sampling
locations,
site
land-use
categories,
sites
sampled
proximate
downstream
point
source
discharge.
Verapamil,
triclocarban,
etoposide,
citalopram,
diphenhydramine,
sertraline,
amitriptyline,
DEET
(N,N-diethyl-meta-toluamide)
comprised
most
ubiquitous
PPCPs
(>
50%)
detected
mussels.
Among
those
quantified
tissue,
metformin,
methylprednisolone,
hydrocortisone,
1,7-dimethylxanthine,
theophylline,
zidovudine,
prednisone,
clonidine,
2-hydroxy-ibuprofen,
iopamidol,
melphalan
at
concentrations
up
to
475
ng/g
(wet
weight).
Antihypertensives,
antidepressants
accounted
for
majority
tissue.
The
results
showed
that
mussels
are
occurring
as
complex
mixtures,
with
4
28
one
or
more
locations.
magnitude
composition
highest
not
influenced
by
either
WWTP
CSO
discharge
(i.e.,
non-WWTPs),
strongly
supporting
non-point
sources
important
drivers
pathways
study.
As
these
inshore
offshore
findings
study
indicate
their
persistence
potential
risks
largely
unknown,
thus
warranting
further
assessment
prioritization
contaminants
Great
Lakes
Basin.
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