Table 1.
Source of occurrence and detecting methods used to identify Ibuprofen in water bodies.
| Sr. No. | Location | Concentration | Technique Used | Reference |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | South Africa | 19.2 μg/L | HPLC equipped with photo diode array detector | (Madikizelaand Chimuka, 2017) |
| 2. | Macherey& Nagel, Düren, Germany | 3.5 μg/L | solid phase microextraction (SPME)combined with gas chromatography/mass spectrometry (GC/MSD) | (Huppert et al., 1998). |
| 3. | River Mississippi, USA | 34 ng/L | solid phase extraction using two-layer disks consisting of C18 and SDB-XC | (Zhang et al., 2007). |
| 4. | Lake Erie basin, North Ohio, USA |
1.2 μg/L | LC-MS/MS | (Wu et al., 2009) |
| 5. | Tula Valley, Mexico | 1406 ng/L | GC–MS | (Gibson et al., 2010) |
| 6. | River Mankyung, South Koria | 414 ng/L | LC-MS/MS | (Kim et al., 2009) |
| 7. | Pearl River Delta in South China | 1417 ng/L | HP 6890 GC with a Micromass Platform II massdetector | (Peng et al., 2008) |
| 8. | STP-influent stream in Taiwan | 2200 ng/L | LC/MS/MS | (Fang et al., 2012) |
| 9. | 6 WWTPs | 7800–8600 ng/L | LC/MS/MS | (Guerra et al., 2014) |
| 10. | DosacoChowk, 9–10 km Sheikhupura Road, Lahore-Pakistan | 610 μg/kg-6046 μg/kg, | LC-20A system (Shimadzu, Japan) equipped with UV detector; HPLC | (Ashfaq et al., 2017) |
| 11. | South China, the Pearl River Delta | - | Stereoisomeric profiling | (Wang et al., 2013) |