Main description:

This volume offers an overview of the occurrence and distribution of personal care products in continental and marine waters, presents analytical methods and degradation technologies and discusses their impact on human health. Experts from different disciplines highlight major issues for each family of compounds related to their occurrence in the water column as well as in solid and biota samples, methodological strategies for their analysis, non-conventional degradation technologies, (eco)toxicity data and their human and environmental risk assessment. The book also includes a general introduction to personal care products, covering their properties, use, behaviour and regulatory framework, and a final chapter identifying knowledge gaps and future research trends. It will appeal to experts from various fields of research, including analytical and environmental chemistry, toxicology and environmental engineering.

Contents:

1 Introduction: Personal Care Products in the Aquatic Environment

D. Molins-Delgado, M.S. Diaz-Cruz, D. Barcelo

Part I: Occurrence of Personal Care Products in the Aquatic Environment: Case Studies

2 Occurrence of PCPs in natural waters from Europe

Shivani Tanwar, Marina Di Carro, Carmela Ianni, Emanuele Magi

3 Personal Care Products in the Aquatic Environment in China

Qian Sun, Min Lv, Mingyue Li, Chang-Ping Yu

4 Survey of Personal Care Products in the United States

Melody J. Bernot and James R. Justice

5 Occurrence of personal care products and transformation processes in chlorinated waters

Mariana M. de Oliveira e Sa, Margarida S. Miranda, Joaquim C.G. Esteves da Silva

Part II: Toxicological Effects and Risk Assessment

6 Environmental Risk Assessment of Personal Care Products

Ramaswamy Babu Rajendran

7 Human Exposure to Chemicals in Personal Care Products and Health Implications

Alexandros G. Asimakopoulos, Ioannis N. Pasias, Kurunthachalam Kannan, Nikolaos S. Thomaidis

Part III: Determination of Personal Care Productions in the Aquatic Environment

8 Analytical methodologies for the determination of personal care products in water samples

Alberto Chisvert and Amparo Salvador

9 Analysis of Personal Care Products in Sediments and Soils

Sarah Montesdeoca-Esponda, Tanausu Vega-Morales, Zoraida Sosa-Ferrera, Jose Juan Santana-Rodriguez

10 Analysis and Occurrence of Personal Care Products in Biota Samples

Pablo Gago-Ferrero, M. Silvia Diaz-Cruz, Damia Barcelo

Part IV: Removal of Personal Care Products Under Non-conventional Treatments

11 Fungal-mediated biodegradation of ingredients in personal care products

M.S. Diaz-Cruz, P. Gago-Ferrero, M. Badia-Fabregat, G. Caminal, T. Vicent and D. Barcelo

12 Removal of Personal Care Products in Constructed Wetlands

Paola Verlicchi, Elena Zambello, Mustafa Al Aukidy

13 Removal of personal care products through ferrate(VI) oxidation treatment

Bin Yang, Guang-Guo Ying

14 Ozonation as an advanced treatment technique for the degradation of personal care products in water

Kristof Demeestere, Pablo Gago-Ferrero, Herman Van Langenhove, M. Silvia Diaz-Cruz, Damia Barcelo

Part V: Conclusions

15 Main conclusions, identification of knowledge gaps and needs for further research

Damia Barcelo