Retention of the Antibiotic Cefuroxime onto Agricultural and Forest Soils

Retention of the Antibiotic Cefuroxime onto Agricultural and Forest Soils

Antibiotics in wastewater, sewage sludge, manures, and slurries constitute a risk for the environment when spread on soils. This work studies the adsorption and desorption of the antibiotic cefuroxime (CFX) in 23 agricultural and forest soils, using batch-type experiments. Our results show that the...

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Main Authors: Raquel Cela-Dablanca, Carolina Nebot, Lucia Rodríguez López, David Ferández-Calviño, Manuel Arias-Estévez, Avelino Núñez-Delgado, Esperanza Álvarez-Rodríguez, María J. Fernández-Sanjurjo
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2021-05-01
Series:Applied Sciences
Subjects:
adsorption
desorption
emerging pollutants
soils
Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/11/10/4663

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