Corrigendum to: “Long-term wastewater irrigation of vegetables in real agricultural systems: Concentration of pharmaceuticals in soil, uptake and bioaccumulation in tomato fruits and human health risk assessment.” [Water Res. 109 (2017) 24–34] (S0043135416308788) (10.1016/j.watres.2016.11.033)

The authors regret to inform that an error was made in Table 7 in the above-cited paper. The error relates to the calculation of the TTC values. The concentrations of pharmaceuticals in tomato fruits were calculated on a dry weight basis (Table 5), which is the main way of reporting such concentrations. However, when the risks were calculated towards public health, in relation to the intake of the pharmaceuticals studied as a result of the consumption of tomatoes, inadvertently the concentrations used were expressed οn a dry weight basis rather than on a fresh weight basis, as stated in Table 7. It should be noted that fresh weight based concentrations should be used, as fruits are consumed fresh. Based on the calculations of the present study, the tomato fruits examined consisted of 94.5% water and 5.5% dry matter, on average. The corrected concentrations of the pharmaceuticals (now expressed οn a fresh weight basis) in Table 7 reflect increased TTC values. This means that a higher consumption is needed to reach the TTC. Overall, it can be said that the corrected data support even more the conclusion made that there are no health implications from the consumption of tomatoes irrigated with the two treated flows in this study, with regard to the intake of the studied pharmaceuticals, individually. Please note that the corrected Table 7 is depicted below. In addition, changes in the TTC values in Table 7 correspond to minor corrections in the ninth line of the text of Section 3.4 (Public health implications/risk assessment), where the corrected TTC values are now 164.06 and 28.13, instead of 9.04 and 1.55.[table presented] The authors regretfully apologize for any inconvenience caused.