Research progress on quality control methods for monitoring illicit drugs use in wastewater
10.11665/j.issn.1000-5048.2024051401
- VernacularTitle:污水毒情监测中质量控制方法研究进展
- Author:
Yue XIAO
1
,
2
;
Shuai YUAN
;
Ruxin LUO
;
Ruiqin ZHU
;
Bin DI
;
Ping XIANG
Author Information
1. 司法鉴定科学研究院, 上海市法医学重点实验室, 上海市司法鉴定专业技术服务平台, 司法部司法鉴定重点实验室, 上海 200063
2. 中国药科大学药学院, 南京 210009
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
wastewater analysis;
wastewater-based epidemiology;
illicit drugs;
drug abuse;
quality control
- From:
Journal of China Pharmaceutical University
2025;56(2):139-147
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
-
Abstract:
The use of wastewater analysis, or wastewater-based epidemiology, to assess and monitor the situation of drug abuse is now widely used at home and abroad. However, there is currently a lack of effective evaluation methods and effective ways of comparison, supervision and standardization, which is not conducive to the analysis and comparisons of data in different countries and regions. Quality control techniques can control the laboratory's analytical errors, safeguard the consistency and comparability of identification conclusions, and promote the further improvement of the level and capacity of urban drug governance, thus playing significant roles. This paper provides an overview of sample collection, sample preservation and transportation, laboratory analysis, back-calculation of drug use and external laboratory quality control in the process of wastewater analysis, with a view to exploring more comprehensive scientific and objective methods and approaches suitable for examining and evaluating qualitative and quantitative analysis of drugs in wastewater among laboratories.
