Open AccessApplication of screen-printed sensors for the determination of painkillers
Author(s) -
Agnieszka Sasal,
Katarzyna TyszczukRotko
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
annales universitatis mariae curie-skłodowska. sectio aa, chemia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2083-358X
pISSN - 0137-6853
DOI - 10.17951/aa.2018.73.1.111-124
Subject(s) - contamination , environmental science , trace (psycholinguistics) , biochemical engineering , natural (archaeology) , computer science , process engineering , engineering , archaeology , biology , geography , ecology , philosophy , linguistics
This paper addresses the problem of the intensive development of the pharmaceutical industry and its consequences for the natural environment. The characteristics of the most commonly consumed pharmaceutical preparations and the ways of these substances penetrating into water ecosystems are presented. Attention was paid to the need to monitor environmental contamination and to search for new methods that would enable routine quality control of natural water samples. The application of modern, miniature screen-printed sensors for the determination of trace concentrations of selected active substances of pharmaceutical preparations are presented.