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The cumulative risk of pharmaceuticals in New Jersey surface water to human health
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The cumulative risk of pharmaceuticals in New Jersey surface water to human health
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Roden
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Nicholas Michael
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Nicholas Roden
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Robson
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Mark G
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Mark G Robson
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chair
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DiFerdinando, Jr.
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George T
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George T DiFerdinando, Jr.
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Hong
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Jun-Yan
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Jun-Yan Hong
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Sargent
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Edward V
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Edward V Sargent
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Rutgers University
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Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Pub. Policy
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2013
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2013-01
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eng
Abstract
Surface water in New Jersey is used to supply many residential drinking water facilities. In the surface water, there are contaminants from industrial and residential sources, one set of these contaminants being pharmaceuticals. This research looks at the concentrations of 18 pharmaceuticals in 30 locations in New Jersey, their acceptable daily exposures, and potential drug-drug interactions. The surface water sampling and analytical concentration determination was done by United States Geological survey (USGS) personnel according to their protocols and analyzed in a USGS laboratory. Acceptable daily exposures (ADE) for human health were set for each pharmaceutical in the study. Each pair of pharmaceuticals was researched for known adverse health interactions and their potential impact on human health was quantified. This interaction factor ranged from 0.4 times to 5.0 times the adverse effect, as measured in some cases by plasma levels in man. These factors were brought together using a cumulative hazard index risk assessment calculation to assess the overall risk of pharmaceuticals in surface water to human health. The cumulative risk was assessed for each of the 30 sample locations, and none reached the level of human health concern. When including the potential from drug-drug interactions in the assessment, the risk did increase but not an appreciable amount. The Hazard Index (HI) for the sample locations ranged from <0.00001 to 0.01 with the drug-drug interaction (DDI) only adding less than 1.2 times increase to the overall risk. When the simulation of these mixtures was extended to an extreme for drug-drug interactions, 7 times a noticeable increase in the calculated risk was seen, but in no cases did the risk in any of the sample locations reach a level of concern.
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Public Health
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Drinking water--Drug content--New Jersey
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Drinking water--Contamination--New Jersey
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Groundwater--Health aspects--New Jersey
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Rutgers University Electronic Theses and Dissertations
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http://hdl.rutgers.edu/1782.1/rucore10003400001.ETD.000067702
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doi:10.7282/T3C24V3D
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vii, 136 p. : ill.
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by Nicholas Michael Roden
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The author owns the copyright to this work.
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Nicholas
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2012-12-18 23:11:14
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Nicholas Roden
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Rutgers University. Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Pub. Policy
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I hereby grant to the Rutgers University Libraries and to my school the non-exclusive right to archive, reproduce and distribute my thesis or dissertation, in whole or in part, and/or my abstract, in whole or in part, in and from an electronic format, subject to the release date subsequently stipulated in this submittal form and approved by my school. I represent and stipulate that the thesis or dissertation and its abstract are my original work, that they do not infringe or violate any rights of others, and that I make these grants as the sole owner of the rights to my thesis or dissertation and its abstract. I represent that I have obtained written permissions, when necessary, from the owner(s) of each third party copyrighted matter to be included in my thesis or dissertation and will supply copies of such upon request by my school. I acknowledge that RU ETD and my school will not distribute my thesis or dissertation or its abstract if, in their reasonable judgment, they believe all such rights have not been secured. I acknowledge that I retain ownership rights to the copyright of my work. I also retain the right to use all or part of this thesis or dissertation in future works, such as articles or books.
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2013-01-31
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2013-08-02
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Access to this PDF has been restricted at the author's request. It will be publicly available after August 2nd, 2013.
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