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Elimination des Zytostatikums Ifosfamid während der simulierten Zersetzung von Hausmüll im Labormaßstab

Translated title of the contribution: Elimination of the antineoplastic agent ifosfamide in a laboratory-scale waste bioreactor
  • Jörn Schecker
  • , Ali Al-Ahmad
  • , Martin Bauer
  • , Hubert Zellmann
  • , K. Kümmerer

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Abstract

Drugs are emitted into the environment by hospitals, private households, veterinary and human practices. Remnants of these products are primarily disposed of in landfill sites. At the present, there is no information available about the behaviour of pharmaceutical drugs, like their anaerobic biodegradation or adsorption, in sanitary landfills. Some of these drugs, e.g. antineoplastic substances such as ifosfamide, are supposed to be cancerogenic, mutagenic, fetotoxic or embryotoxic. Therefore, we investigated the behaviour of ifosfamide during waste decomposition in a laboratory-scale lysimeter. Up to 50% of the ifosfamide was eliminated under methanogenic conditions; but the mechanism applying for the elimination remains unclear. As far as present day knowledge is concerned, the risk for the environment through the emission of emitting ifosfamide from sanitary landfills should be negligible.
Translated title of the contributionElimination of the antineoplastic agent ifosfamide in a laboratory-scale waste bioreactor
Original languageGerman
JournalUmweltwissenschaften und Schadstoff-Forschung
Volume10
Issue number6
Pages (from-to)339-344
Number of pages6
ISSN0934-3504
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 01.12.1998
Externally publishedYes

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This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

  1. SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-being
    SDG 3 Good Health and Well-being

Research areas and keywords

  • Chemistry

ASJC Scopus Subject Areas

  • Pollution

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