[Pharmwaste] Engineering students design process to remove
pharmaceuticals from wastewater
Ronald Ney
randsney at gmail.com
Tue Mar 15 14:08:30 EDT 2011
Subject: Engineering students design process to remove pharmaceuticals
from wastewater
If acid and microbes in the human body cannot degrade pharmaceuticals
then it would be expected that they would be stable in the
environment. Photodegradation could occur in the environment depending
on the circumstance.
Any photodegradation study should be done with radiotracer chemicals
to discern the photodegradation products and for a material balance.
The toxicity of some photodegradation products could be just a bad a
parent chemical. This has been proven with pesticide studies.
Dr. Ron Ney
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