Monitoring, Mitigation, and Risk Assessment of Pharmaceuticals in the Environment
A special issue of Pharmaceuticals (ISSN 1424-8247). This special issue belongs to the section "Pharmaceutical Technology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 June 2026 | Viewed by 4
Special Issue Editors
Interests: nanomaterials; biomedical applications; environmental applications
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Pharmaceuticals are a fundamental pillar of health for humans and other animals. However, beyond their undeniable benefits, they are increasingly recognized as significant microcontaminants, ubiquitously present in various environmental compartments at trace yet potentially impactful levels. Over the past few decades, this multidisciplinary challenge has attracted growing scientific attention, yet much remains to be discovered.
While the occurrence of pharmaceuticals in the environment is well established, advances in analytical technologies remain essential to enable faster, easier, and more sensitive detection in complex environmental matrices, allowing for feasible and real-time monitoring. Concurrently, mitigating the continuous release of these contaminants calls for cost-effective and sustainable treatment and remediation strategies capable of reducing environmental concentrations in the near future. Finally, understanding the persistence of these compounds, interactions with other pollutants, and their effects on non-target organisms—from ecological consequences to comprehensive risk assessments—is also critical for fully addressing this issue.
This Special Issue, launched within the scope of the 6th International Conference on Risk Assessment of Pharmaceuticals in the Environment, seeks to unite expertise on advanced analytical methodologies for the detection and monitoring of pharmaceuticals, innovative remediation technologies for the removal of these microcontaminates, and their ecotoxicological assessment. We particularly welcome contributions that present novel approaches, innovative instrumentation, and data-driven techniques to improve the sensitivity, speed, and feasibility of pharmaceutical detection in complex matrices. We strongly encourage submissions offering new insights into monitoring, mitigation, and risk assessment that enhance our understanding and improve the management of pharmaceutical residues in the environment to this Special Issue.
Dr. Goreti Pereira
Dr. Vania Calisto
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- pharmaceuticals
- environmental impact
- novel analytical techniques
- remediation strategies
- risk assessment
- ecological effects
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