Abstract:
Pharmaceutical and personal care
products (PPCPs) are considered
as emerging contaminants (ECs)
in the environment due to their
known or suspected adverse ecological
effects and human health
risks. Wastewater, compost, and
manure application release PPCPs
into the agricultural soil systems.
Since the plants can take up such
ECs, they are considered as a primary
window of human exposure
to the PPCPs via the route of consumption of contaminated plants. This may lead to
deleterious human health effects. However, as PPCPs are of various kinds, differential
uptake and bioaccumulation in the plant have recently received research interest.
Therefore, the present article reviewed the occurrence of PPCPs as antibiotics, anti-inflammatory
drugs, hormones, cytostatic drugs, contrast media, b-blockers, blood lipid regulators,
antiepileptic drugs, antimicrobials, ultra-violet filters, preservatives, insect repellents,
and synthetic musks in the environment by assembling the literature. Moreover, plant
uptake and translocation under the realistic and greenhouse condition, and the factors
influencing the uptake and translocation through the plants are explicitly demonstrated
in this review. Also, the human risk connected with the consumption of the contaminated
plants and the research gap areas were investigated with future perspectives
