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Rakonjac N, Roex E, Beeltje H. Surface water monitoring of chemicals associated with animal husbandry in an agricultural region in the Netherlands using passive sampling. ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING AND ASSESSMENT 2024; 196:670. [PMID: 38940882 PMCID: PMC11213807 DOI: 10.1007/s10661-024-12818-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/07/2024] [Accepted: 06/11/2024] [Indexed: 06/29/2024]
Abstract
Compounds originating from animal husbandry can pollute surface water through the application of manure to soil. Typically, grab sampling is employed to detect these residues, which only provides information on the concentration at the time of sampling. To better understand the emission patterns of these compounds, we utilized passive samplers in surface water to collect data at eight locations in a Dutch agricultural region, during different time intervals. As a passive sampler, we chose the integrative-based Speedisk® hydrophilic DVB. In total, we targeted 46 compounds, among which 25 antibiotics, three hormones, nine antiparasitics, and nine disinfectants. From these 46 compounds, 22 compounds accumulated in passive samplers in amounts above the limit of quantification in at least one sampling location. Over the 12-week deployment period, a time integrative uptake pattern was identified in 53% of the examined cases, with the remaining 47% not displaying this behavior. The occurrences without this behavior were primarily associated with specific location, particularly the most upstream location, or specific compounds. Our findings suggest that the proposed use of passive samplers, when compared in this limited context to traditional grab sampling, may provide enhanced efficiency and potentially enable the detection of a wider array of compounds. In fact, a number of compounds originating from animal husbandry activities were quantified for the first time in Dutch surface waters, such as flubendazole, florfenicol, and tilmicosine. The set-up of the sampling campaign also allowed to distinguish between different pollution levels during sampling intervals on the same location. This aspect gains particular significance when considering the utilization of different compounds on various occasions, hence, it has the potential to strengthen ongoing monitoring and mitigation efforts.
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- Nikola Rakonjac
- Soil Physics and Land Management Group, Wageningen University, Droevendaalsesteeg 3, 6708PB, Wageningen, the Netherlands.
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- National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM), Bilthoven, the Netherlands
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Mo J, Guo J, Iwata H, Diamond J, Qu C, Xiong J, Han J. What Approaches Should be Used to Prioritize Pharmaceuticals and Personal Care Products for Research on Environmental and Human Health Exposure and Effects? ENVIRONMENTAL TOXICOLOGY AND CHEMISTRY 2024; 43:488-501. [PMID: 36377688 DOI: 10.1002/etc.5520] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/12/2022] [Revised: 10/17/2022] [Accepted: 11/07/2022] [Indexed: 06/16/2023]
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Pharmaceuticals and personal care products (PPCPs) are released from multiple anthropogenic sources and thus have a ubiquitous presence in the environment. The environmental exposure and potential effects of PPCPs on biota and humans has aroused concern within the scientific community and the public. Risk assessments are commonly conducted to evaluate the likelihood of chemicals including PPCPs that pose health threats to organisms inhabiting various environmental compartments and humans. Because thousands of PPCPs are currently used, it is impractical to assess the environmental risk of all of them due to data limitations; in addition, new PPCPs are continually being produced. Prioritization approaches, based either on exposure, hazard, or risk, provide a possible means by which those PPCPs that are likely to pose the greatest risk to the environment are identified, thereby enabling more effective allocation of resources in environmental monitoring programs in specific geographical locations and ecotoxicological investigations. In the present review, the importance and current knowledge concerning PPCP occurrence and risk are discussed and priorities for future research are proposed, in terms of PPCP exposure (e.g., optimization of exposure modeling in freshwater ecosystems and more monitoring of PPCPs in the marine environment) or hazard (e.g., differential risk of PPCPs to lower vs. higher trophic level species and risks to human health). Recommended research questions for the next 10 years are also provided, which can be answered by future studies on prioritization of PPCPs. Environ Toxicol Chem 2024;43:488-501. © 2022 SETAC.
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- Jiezhang Mo
- Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Marine Disaster Prediction and Prevention, Shantou University, Shantou, China
- Shaanxi Key Laboratory of Earth Surface System and Environmental Carrying Capacity, College of Urban and Environmental Sciences, Northwest University, Xi'an, China
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- Shaanxi Key Laboratory of Earth Surface System and Environmental Carrying Capacity, College of Urban and Environmental Sciences, Northwest University, Xi'an, China
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- Center for Marine Environmental Studies, Ehime University, Matsuyama, Japan
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- State Key Laboratory of Biogeology and Environmental Geology, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan, China
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- College of Marine Life Science, Ocean University of China, Qingdao, China
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- Department of Environmental Science and Engineering, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, China
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Zillien C, Groenveld T, Schut O, Beeltje H, Blanco-Ania D, Posthuma L, Roex E, Ragas A. Assessing city-wide pharmaceutical emissions to wastewater via modelling and passive sampling. ENVIRONMENT INTERNATIONAL 2024; 185:108524. [PMID: 38458114 DOI: 10.1016/j.envint.2024.108524] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/04/2023] [Revised: 01/31/2024] [Accepted: 02/20/2024] [Indexed: 03/10/2024]
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With increasing numbers of chemicals used in modern society, assessing human and environmental exposure to them is becoming increasingly difficult. Recent advances in wastewater-based epidemiology enable valuable insights into public exposure to data-poor compounds. However, measuring all >26,000 chemicals registered under REACH is not just technically unfeasible but would also be incredibly expensive. In this paper, we argue that estimating emissions of chemicals based on usage data could offer a more comprehensive, systematic and efficient approach than repeated monitoring. Emissions of 29 active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) to wastewater were estimated for a medium-sized city in the Netherlands. Usage data was collected both on national and local scale and included prescription data, usage in health-care institutions and over-the-counter sales. Different routes of administration were considered as well as the excretion and subsequent in-sewer back-transformation of conjugates into respective parent compounds. Results suggest model-based emission estimation on a city-level is feasible and in good agreement with wastewater measurements obtained via passive sampling. Results highlight the need to include excretion fractions in the conceptual framework of emission estimation but suggest that the choice of an appropriate excretion fraction has a substantial impact on the resulting model performance.
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- Caterina Zillien
- Radboud University, Department of Environmental Science, Nijmegen, the Netherlands.
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- Radboud University, Department of Environmental Science, Nijmegen, the Netherlands
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- Open University, Department of Environmental Science, Heerlen, the Netherlands
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- TNO, Environmental Modelling, Sensing and Analysis, Utrecht, the Netherlands
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- Radboud University, Department of Synthetic Organic Chemistry, Nijmegen, the Netherlands
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- Radboud University, Department of Environmental Science, Nijmegen, the Netherlands; National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM), Centre for Sustainability, Environment and Health, Bilthoven, the Netherlands
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- National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM), Centre for Zoonoses and Environmental Microbiology, Bilthoven, the Netherlands
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- Radboud University, Department of Environmental Science, Nijmegen, the Netherlands
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Duarte DJ, Zillien C, Kox M, Oldenkamp R, van der Zaan B, Roex E, Ragas AMJ. Characterization of urban sources of antibiotics and antibiotic-resistance genes in a Dutch sewer catchment. THE SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT 2023; 905:167439. [PMID: 37774886 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.167439] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/01/2023] [Revised: 09/08/2023] [Accepted: 09/26/2023] [Indexed: 10/01/2023]
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A one year study was conducted in the city of Nijmegen, The Netherlands, to characterize various urban sources of antibiotics and antibiotic resistant genes (ARGs) in wastewater within a single sewer catchment. Prevalence of ermB, tet(W), sul1, sul2, intl1, and 16S rRNA gene was determined at 10 locations within the city. Sampling locations included a nursing home, a student residence, a hospital and an industrial area, among others. Wastewater concentrations of 23 antibiotics were measured using passive sampling. Additionally, excreted loads of 22 antibiotics were estimated based on ambulatory prescription and clinical usage data. Genes sul1 and intl1 were most abundant across most locations. Ciprofloxacin and amoxicillin together contributed over 92 % of the total estimated antibiotic selective pressure at all sampling points. The present study highlights the prominent role that hospitals can have in the prevalence and proliferation of ARGs in urban wastewater. Furthermore, results suggest that even short-term changes in the therapeutic regimen prescribed in hospitals may translate into shifting ARG abundance patterns in hospital wastewater. The methods applied present an opportunity to identify emission hotspots and prioritize intervention options to limit ARG spread from urban wastewater to the environment.
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- Daniel J Duarte
- Radboud University Nijmegen, Radboud Institute for Biological and Environmental Sciences, Department of Environmental Science, 6500 GL Nijmegen, Netherlands
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- Radboud University Nijmegen, Radboud Institute for Biological and Environmental Sciences, Department of Environmental Science, 6500 GL Nijmegen, Netherlands.
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- Deltares, Subsurface and Groundwater Systems, Daltonlaan 600, 3584 KB Utrecht, the Netherlands
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- Department of Global Health-Amsterdam Institute for Global Health and Development, Amsterdam UMC, University of Amsterdam, Paasheuvelweg 25, 1105 BP Amsterdam, the Netherlands
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- Deltares, Subsurface and Groundwater Systems, Daltonlaan 600, 3584 KB Utrecht, the Netherlands
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- National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM), Centre for Zoonoses and Environmental Microbiology, 3721 MA Bilthoven, the Netherlands
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- Radboud University Nijmegen, Radboud Institute for Biological and Environmental Sciences, Department of Environmental Science, 6500 GL Nijmegen, Netherlands
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Sharma M, Rajput D, Kumar V, Jatain I, Aminabhavi TM, Mohanakrishna G, Kumar R, Dubey KK. Photocatalytic degradation of four emerging antibiotic contaminants and toxicity assessment in wastewater: A comprehensive study. ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH 2023; 231:116132. [PMID: 37207734 DOI: 10.1016/j.envres.2023.116132] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/26/2022] [Revised: 05/03/2023] [Accepted: 05/12/2023] [Indexed: 05/21/2023]
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Excessive usage and unrestricted discharge of antibiotics in the environment lead to their accumulation in the ecosystem due to their highly stable and non-biodegradation nature. Photodegradation of four most consumed antibiotics such as amoxicillin, azithromycin, cefixime, and ciprofloxacin were studied using Cu2O-TiO2 nanotubes. Cytotoxicity evaluation of the native and transformed products was conducted on the RAW 264.7 cell lines. Photocatalyst loading (0.1-2.0 g/L), pH (5, 7 and 9), initial antibiotic load (50-1000 μg/mL) and cuprous oxide percentage (5, 10 and 20) were optimized for efficient photodegradation of antibiotics. Quenching experiments to evaluate the mechanism of photodegradation with hydroxyl and superoxide radicals were found the most reactive species of the selected antibiotics. Complete degradation of selected antibiotics was achieved in 90 min with 1.5 g/L of 10% Cu2O-TiO2 nanotubes with initial antibiotic concentration (100 μg/mL) at neutral pH of water matrix. The photocatalyst showed high chemical stability and reusability up to five consecutive cycles. Zeta potential studies confirms the high stability and activity of 10% C-TAC (Cuprous oxide doped Titanium dioxide nanotubes for Applied Catalysis) in the tested pH conditions. Photoluminescence and Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy data speculates that 10% C-TAC photocatalyst have efficient photoexcitation in the visible light for photodegradation of antibiotics samples. Inhibitory concentration (IC50) interpretation from the toxicity analysis of native antibiotics concluded that ciprofloxacin was the most toxic antibiotic among the selected antibiotics. Cytotoxicity percentage of transformed products showed r: -0.985, p: 0.01 (negative correlation) with the degradation percentage revealing the efficient degradation of selected antibiotics with no toxic by-products.
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- Manisha Sharma
- Department of Biotechnology, Central University of Haryana, Mahendergarh, Haryana, 123 031, India
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- Biomanufacturing and Process Development Laboratory, School of Biotechnology, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, 110 067, India
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- Special Centre for Nano Science, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, 110 067, India
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- Department of Biotechnology, Central University of Haryana, Mahendergarh, Haryana, 123 031, India
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- Center for Energy and Environment, School of Advanced Sciences, KLE Technological University, Hubballi, 580 031, Karnataka, India
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- Center for Energy and Environment, School of Advanced Sciences, KLE Technological University, Hubballi, 580 031, Karnataka, India
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- Department of Biotechnology, Central University of Haryana, Mahendergarh, Haryana, 123 031, India
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- Biomanufacturing and Process Development Laboratory, School of Biotechnology, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, 110 067, India.
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Azuma T, Hayashi T. On-site chlorination responsible for effective disinfection of wastewater from hospital. THE SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT 2021; 776:145951. [PMID: 33647640 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.145951] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/04/2020] [Revised: 01/30/2021] [Accepted: 02/14/2021] [Indexed: 05/10/2023]
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Both hospital effluent and a model sewage treatment plant (STP) wastewater prepared by mixing STP influent and STP secondary effluent at a volume ratio of 1:9 were directly treated with chlorine for investigation of their effects on disinfection of antimicrobial-resistant bacteria (AMRB) and antimicrobial-susceptible bacteria (AMSB). The overall results indicate that the chlorine disinfection effectively inactivated the majority of AMRB and AMSB, expect for MRSA and Staphylococcus aureus in both wastewaters. No significant differences could further be observed in the taxonomic diversity of micro-organisms after the treatment. The degrees of disinfection given by the direct chlorination were comparable to those attained by combination of conventional activated sludge process and additional chlorine treatment at the STP. The results of this study evoked a recommendation to operate local chlorination treatment directly for the wastewater from medicinal facilities prior to its flow into the STP as sewage. Although additional disinfection treatment at the STP seems necessary to remove the recalcitrant MRSA and Staphylococcus aureus, the present study desirably contributes to a great reduction of the loads of STP and urgent prevention of spreading of infectious diseases in the present state.
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- Takashi Azuma
- Osaka University of Pharmaceutical Sciences, 4-20-1 Nasahara, Takatsuki, Osaka 569-1094, Japan.
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- Osaka University of Pharmaceutical Sciences, 4-20-1 Nasahara, Takatsuki, Osaka 569-1094, Japan
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Utami RR, Geerling GW, Salami IRS, Notodarmojo S, Ragas AMJ. Environmental prioritization of pesticide in the Upper Citarum River Basin, Indonesia, using predicted and measured concentrations. THE SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT 2020; 738:140130. [PMID: 32806383 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.140130] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/21/2020] [Revised: 05/23/2020] [Accepted: 06/09/2020] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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A novel screening method was developed to prioritize aquatic and human health risks of pesticides based on usage data, runoff modelling and effect prediction. An important asset of this new method is that it does not require measured concentration data, which are often unavailable or difficult to obtain in low- and middle-income countries like Indonesia. The method was applied to prioritize 31 agricultural pesticides used in the Upper Citarum River Basin in West Java, Indonesia. Ranking of pesticides based on predicted concentrations generally showed good agreement with ranking based on concentrations measured by passive sampling. The individual pesticide intake through the consumption of river water was predicted to cause negligible human health risks, but substantial aquatic risks (i.e. PEC/PNEC >1) were predicted for profenofos (5.2.E+01), propineb (3.6.E+01), chlorpyrifos (2.6.E+01), carbofuran (1.7.E+01), imidacloprid (9.4.E+00), methomyl (7.6.E+00) and chlorantraniliprole (3.6.E+00). In order to protect the aquatic environment, water managers are advised to take measures to reduce the use and runoff of these pesticides in the UCRB. The screening assessment can be further refined by performing additional effect studies for some pesticides, pesticide mixtures and validation of the predicted water concentrations by targeted measurements.
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- Rosetyati R Utami
- Institute for Science in Society, Faculty of Science, Radboud University, P.O. Box 9010, 6500 GL Nijmegen, the Netherlands; Department of Environmental Engineering, Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Institut Teknologi Bandung, Jl. Ganesha no. 10, Bandung 40132, Indonesia.
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- Institute for Science in Society, Faculty of Science, Radboud University, P.O. Box 9010, 6500 GL Nijmegen, the Netherlands; Deltares, P.O. Box 177, 2600 MH Delft, the Netherlands
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- Department of Environmental Engineering, Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Institut Teknologi Bandung, Jl. Ganesha no. 10, Bandung 40132, Indonesia
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- Department of Environmental Engineering, Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Institut Teknologi Bandung, Jl. Ganesha no. 10, Bandung 40132, Indonesia
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- Institute for Water and Wetland Research, Department of Environmental Science, Faculty of Science, Radboud University, P.O. Box 9010, 6500 GL Nijmegen, the Netherlands; Department of Science, Faculty of Management, Science & Technology, Open University, 6419 AT Heerlen, the Netherlands
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Kovacs ED, Silaghi-Dumitrescu L, Kovacs MH, Roman C. Determination of the Uptake of Ibuprofen, Ketoprofen, and Diclofenac by Tomatoes, Radishes, and Lettuce by Gas Chromatography–Mass Spectrometry (GC–MS). ANAL LETT 2020. [DOI: 10.1080/00032719.2020.1779278] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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- E. D. Kovacs
- Research Institute for Analytical Instrumentation, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
- Chemistry and Chemical Engineering Faculty, Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
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- Chemistry and Chemical Engineering Faculty, Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
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- Research Institute for Analytical Instrumentation, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
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- Research Institute for Analytical Instrumentation, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
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