Authors:
Ionescu Lucian, Gheorghe Stefania
Ionescu Lucian, Gheorghe Stefania
Conference: International Symposium “The Environment and the Industry”
Date: 26-27 September 2019
Location: Bucharest, Romania
Published: 2019
Keywords:
Aliivibrio Fischeri
Analgesics
Luminescence
Pharmaceuticals
Abstract:
The manufacture and use of pharmaceuticals compounds (PhACs) is one of the great benefits of today’s society. However, the increased use of these substances has resulted in continuous and uncontrolled releases to the environment for many years, as complex mixtures, mainly through the effluents of waste water treatment plants, as well as the use of biological sludge in agriculture. Two serious consequences of environmental pollution with these compounds are the adaptation of microorganisms and viruses to the active substance and the disruption of the endocrine system in humans and in terrestrial and aquatic organisms. The ecotoxic effects of PhACs in aquatic ecosystems become an indisputable necessity. The European research and reglementation communities required evaluation of the toxic effects of PhACs on aquatic organisms at different trophic levels (microorganisms, invertebrate or vertebrate).