Analysis of emerging organic contaminants in poultry manure by gas chromatography–tandem mass spectrometry

Abstract

A multiresidue method was developed for the determination of 19 emerging organic contaminants (pharmaceutical drugs, personal care products, and bisphenol A) in poultry manure. Lyophilized samples of manure were extracted by ultrasound-assisted matrix solid-phase dispersion and the extracts were analyzed by gas chromatography with tandem mass spectrometry after derivatization. Analysis of spiked poultry manure samples, at levels ranging from 25 to 150 ng/g, gave satisfactory recovery results for all the compounds, with values from 67 to 106%. The developed procedure provided detection limits that ranged from 0.9 to 2.2 ng/g. Finally, the validated method was applied to poultry manure samples collected from 23 poultry farms in Spain. Salicylic acid was found in most of the samples analyzed at levels up to 2501 ng/g, whereas, methyl paraben, orthophenylphenol, ibuprofen, paracetamol, and carbamazepine were detected at levels up to 250 ng/g. Composting of manure showed an important decrease in the levels of the detected contaminants.

Simultaneous Quantification of Bisphenol-A and 4-Tert-Octylphenol in the Live Aquaculture Feed Artemia franciscana and in Its Culture Medium Using HPLC-DAD

“…A recent report on the determination of BPA and other xenoestrogens including t-OCT in human urine, serum, and breast milk samples, employed liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS) method on a silica Acquity column [ 57 ]. Analysis of several emerging contaminants, including BPA but not t-OCT, was performed in poultry manure using ultrasound-assisted matrix solid-phase dispersion for the extraction of the analytes and analysis following derivatization was performed by GC coupled to tandem mass spectrometry [ 58 ]. Simultaneous determination of BPA and alkylphenols has recently been reported for fish and gull [ 27 ], water samples [ 59 ], mussels [ 60 ], and naturally occurring marine zooplankton [ 61 ], using ultrasonic extraction followed by SPE (Oasis HLB) and analysis was performed by HPLC -FLD using a HYPERSIL GOLD C18 column and gradient elution with acetonitrile: water.…”

Inorganic additives to increase methane generation during anaerobic digestion of livestock manure: a review

“…Increasing amounts of livestock wastes, containing metals, and persistent pollutants such as antibiotic, personal care products and refractory organic matters, have recently raised environmental and ecological concerns (Aznar et al, 2018;Montes et al, 2015;Zhang et al, 2014). Anaerobic digestion has been considered as an environmentalfriendly and effective treatment for livestock wastes reduction and resource recovery.…”

A review of the occurrence of selected micropollutants and microorganisms in different raw and treated manure – Environmental risk due to antibiotics after application to soil

“…In addition to pharmaceuticals and hormones, other groups of micropollutants may be found in the different manures. This is the case of the plasticizer bisphenol A (released from the food containers or manure storage tanks) and the parabens methylparaben and propylparaben (Aznar et al, 2018;Zhang et al, 2014). Another category among contaminants to consider in order to better characterize manure includes microorganisms, both indicator microorganisms as well as pathogen microorganisms.…”