
The Science of The Total Environment, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 957, P. 177493 - 177493
Published: Nov. 22, 2024
The type 2 diabetes drug metformin is among the most frequently prescribed, dispensed, and consumed pharmaceuticals worldwide; its heavy use poor breakdown means it consequently detected in various wastewater treatment plant (WWTP) effluents surface waters. resulting environmental concentrations of can have adverse impacts on aquatic ecosystems. An 8-week in-lake mesocosm experiment was conducted a freshwater boreal lake at IISD-Experimental Lakes Area (Ontario, Canada) to determine fate effects metformin. Mesocosms were assigned nominal 0, 5, or 50 μg L
Language: Английский