Jemimah K. Mulu
A5050082367- Environmental Justice and Health Disparities
- Pharmaceutical and Antibiotic Environmental Impacts
- Heavy metals in environment
- Toxic Organic Pollutants Impact
- Advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques
- Biosensors and Analytical Detection
University of Nairobi
2022
Environmental exposure to active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) can have negative effects on the health of ecosystems and humans. While numerous studies monitored APIs in rivers, these employ different analytical methods, measure APIs, ignored many countries world. This makes it difficult quantify scale problem from a global perspective. Furthermore, comparison existing data, generated for studies/regions/continents, is challenging due vast differences between methodologies employed....
The UN Sustainable Development Goals highlight the myriad of socio-economic and environmental challenges occurring as a result anthropogenic chemical pollution. Urban sediments from informal settlements (slums) on Nairobi, Ngong Mathare Rivers (n = 25), were evaluated for sediment quality. Microtox bioassay identified 8 sites toxic, 9 moderately toxic non-toxic. Slum characterised by high total organic carbon Rock-Eval pyrolysis revealed bound mix raw sewage domestic refuse. Sediments...