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What happens when pharmaceuticals meet colloids

Ecotoxicology volume 24, pages 2100–2114 (2015)Cite this article

Abstract

Pharmaceuticals (PCs) have been widely detected in natural environment due to agricultural application of reclaimed water, sludge and animal wastes. Their potential risks to various ecosystems and even to human health have caused great concern; however, little was known about their environmental behaviors. Colloids (such as clays, metal oxides, and particulate organics) are kind of substances that are active and widespread in the environment. When PCs meet colloids, their interaction may influence the fate, transport, and toxicity of PCs. This review summarizes the progress of studies on the role of colloids in mediating the environmental behaviors of PCs. Synthesized results showed that colloids can adsorb PCs mainly through ion exchange, complexation and non-electrostatic interactions. During this process the structure of colloids and the stability of PCs may be changed. The adsorbed PCs may have higher risks to induce antibiotic resistance; besides, their transport may also be altered considering they have great chance to move with colloids. Solution conditions (such as pH, ionic strength, and cations) could influence these interactions between PCs and colloids, as they can change the forms of PCs and alter the primary forces between PCs and colloids in the solution. It could be concluded that PCs in natural soils could bind with colloids and then co-transport during the processes of irrigation, leaching, and erosion. Therefore, colloid-PC interactions need to be understood for risk assessment of PCs and the best management practices of various ecosystems (such as agricultural and wetland systems).

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This work was financially supported by the Strategic Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (Grant No. XDB14020204) and National Key Technology R&D program of China (Grant No. 2015BAD0503).

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  1. State Key Laboratory of Forest and Soil Ecology, Institute of Applied Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang, 110016, China

    Yingna Xing & Xin Chen

  2. University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, China

    Yingna Xing

  3. Key Laboratory of Pollution Ecology and Environmental Engineering, Institute of Applied Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang, 110016, China

    Yingna Xing, Xijuan Chen & Jie Zhuang

  4. Department of Biosystems Engineering and Soil Science, Institute for a Secure and Sustainable Environment, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, 37996, USA

    Jie Zhuang

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Xing, Y., Chen, X., Zhuang, J. et al. What happens when pharmaceuticals meet colloids. Ecotoxicology 24, 2100–2114 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10646-015-1557-y

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Keywords

  • Pharmaceuticals
  • Colloids
  • Interaction
  • Transport
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