Testing wastewater in public health epidemiology: Pharmaceuticals, illicit drugs and the phenomenon of chirality

B Kasprzyk-Hordern

Abstract

Wastewater profiling in epidemiological studies is an innovative approach which has been recently pioneered to provide near real-time measurements of public health. Although still in its infancy, this approach is currently used to determine community-wide illicit drug use trends via the analysis of urinary drug biomarkers in sewage with the usage of cutting-edge chemical and bio-analytical techniques.

This talk will introduce the concept and its rapid advances including estimation of community-wide illicit drug use trends and assessment of population health and health risk prediction through the analysis of health biomarkers. The phenomenon of chirality will be the focus of the discussion as an under-investigated but key phenomenon in wastewater analysis for chiral substances.

Original language	English
Publication status	Published - 2014
Event	The SfAM Meeting "Control of water-borne disease: A century of the activated sludge sewage treatment process" - Manchester, UK United Kingdom Duration: 1 Apr 2014 → 2 Apr 2014

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Conference	The SfAM Meeting "Control of water-borne disease: A century of the activated sludge sewage treatment process"
Country/Territory	UK United Kingdom
City	Manchester
Period	1/04/14 → 2/04/14

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Testing wastewater in public health epidemiology: Pharmaceuticals, illicit drugs and the phenomenon of chirality

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Marie Curie ITN - SEWPROF A New Paradigm in Drug Use and Human Health Risk Assessment: Sewage Profiling at the Community Level management

Stereoselective Degradation of Chiral Drugs during Wastewater Treatment

Enantioselective Occurrence and Fate of Chiral Drugs in the Aqueous Environment

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Testing wastewater in public health epidemiology: Pharmaceuticals, illicit drugs and the phenomenon of chirality

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Marie Curie ITN - SEWPROF A New Paradigm in Drug Use and Human Health Risk Assessment: Sewage Profiling at the Community Level management

Stereoselective Degradation of Chiral Drugs during Wastewater Treatment

Enantioselective Occurrence and Fate of Chiral Drugs in the Aqueous Environment

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