Mini-Review: Pharmaceuticals in sewage sludge and their degradation during composting – recent studies in Estonia

Pharmaceuticals are present in sewage sludge and its compost. This may cause severe health problems due to the plant uptake of pharmaceuticals by food plants when sewage sludge compost is used for fertilizing agricultural soils. Recently studies were conducted for estimating the efficiency of compos...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Lembit Nei, Egge Haiba, Merike Lillenberg
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Estonian Academic Agricultural Society 2020-06-01
Series:Agraarteadus
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Online Access: http://agrt.emu.ee/pdf/2020_1_nei.pdf