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Environmental Pollutants: Organic and Emerging Contaminants

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Environmental contamination by organic and emerging contaminants emanating from anthropic activities is widespread globally. Such activities include agrochemical, pharmaceutical, textile, and petroleum manufacturing industries. The contaminants may bioaccumulate in food and environmental compartments such as aquatic systems. Some pollutants, for example, hydrocarbons, can volatilize from soil, vegetation, and aquatic environments into the atmosphere, where they are mobilized for considerable distances before redeposition. Chlorinated compounds are used to make drinking water disinfectants, pesticides, pharmaceuticals, and other industrial applications. Due to extensive agricultural activities around the world, pesticides were ubiquitous and are commonly detected at low concentrations. Other pollutants include explosives, which contain toxic and mutagenic xenobiotics, endocrine-disrupting chemicals, polyfluorinated compounds, and pharmaceutically active compounds. All these contaminants cause unfavourable environmental and human health effects and so should be removed from aquatic systems.

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Ruziwa, D.T., Rutsito, D.D., Chaukura, N. (2022). Environmental Pollutants: Organic and Emerging Contaminants. In: Selvasembian, R., van Hullebusch, E.D., Mal, J. (eds) Biotechnology for Environmental Protection. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-4937-1_2

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