Pharmaceutical Pollutants: Environmental Fate, Risk Assessment and Sustainable Solutions
A special issue of Toxics (ISSN 2305-6304). This special issue belongs to the section "Emerging Contaminants".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 October 2025 | Viewed by 392
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The scope of this Special Issue will include contributions of original research papers and high-quality review articles to help address problems related to pharmaceutical pollution. Studies significantly improving our understanding of environmental behaviors (e.g., adsorption/desorption, degradation, migration, and transformation) of pharmaceutical pollutants in water, sediment, and soil will be given primary consideration. Authors should affirm that their studies are conducted under environmentally relevant conditions, such as temperature, pH, and chemical doses, for actual applications. Additionally, we also invite contributions that focus on the removal technologies and pollution control strategies of pharmaceutical pollutants in water, sediment, and soil. Cost-effective, high-efficiency, and environmentally friendly materials and processes are particularly welcome.
This Special Issue will not consider articles dealing with the extraction and determination methods of pharmaceutical pollutants in any environmental matrix. Additionally, descriptive or repetitive studies with limited novelty will not be considered.
Dr. Guixiang Zhang
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- pharmaceuticals
- antibiotic resistance genes
- soil
- water
- sediments
- environmental fate
- risk assessment
- sustainable solutions
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