Detection, occurrence, and fate of emerging contaminants in agricultural environments (2019)

Abstract

A review of 82 papers published in 2018 is presented. The topics ranged from detailed descriptions of analytical methods, to fate and occurrence studies, to ecological effects and sampling techniques for a wide variety of emerging contaminants likely to occur in agricultural environments. New methods and studies on veterinary pharmaceuticals, microplastics, and engineered nanomaterials in agricultural environments continue to expand our knowledge base on the occurrence and potential impacts of these compounds. This review is divided into the following sections: Introduction, Analytical Methods, Fate and Occurrence, Pharmaceutical Metabolites, Anthelmintics, Microplastics, and Engineered Nanomaterials.Practitioner points New research describes innovative new techniques for emerging contaminant detection in agricultural settings. Newer classes of contaminants include human and veterinary pharmaceuticals. Research in microplastics and nanomaterials shows that these also occur in agricultural environments and will likely be topics of future work.

State of the Art of Triad-Based Ecological Risk Assessment: Current Limitations and Needed Implementations in the Case of Soil Diffuse Contamination

“…Anthropogenic pressure on soil ecosystems, however, is prominent and mainly takes shape into a number of industrial and agricultural activities, which cause the release of toxic substances via multiple contamination routes (Leclerc et al, 2019). Main contaminants include: 1) potentially toxic elements (PTE) such as metals, 2) organic compounds, and 3) compounds of emerging environmental concern (Vodyanitskii and Yakovlev, 2016;Snow et al, 2019) such as pharmaceuticals and personal care products (Boxall Alistair et al, 2012;Williams-Nguyen et al, 2016), 4) material weathering byproducts (Ng et al, 2018;Sieber et al, 2020), 5) engineered nanoparticles (Gottschalk et al, 2013;Adam et al, 2018) and 6) plastics (Rillig et al, 2017).…”

Contaminants of Emerging Concern: A Review of Biological and Economic Principles to Guide Water Management Policies

“…Therefore, water policies are already including water reuse as a solution to address water scarcity (Pistocchi et al, 2017). However, the important amount of emerging contaminants that this practice can introduce into the environment is still totally ignored (Snow et al, 2019). If the concentrations of emerging compounds reach critical levels, the reuse of these resources can be compromised.…”

“…While the impacts of many emerging substances are still not completely understood, several studies have already reported the association between these compounds and human health and well-being issues (Bunke et al, 2019;Francisco et al, 2019;Gwenzi et al, 2018;Lei et al, 2015;Schwarzenbach et al, 2006;Snow et al, 2019). Furthermore, environmental damage to habitats and ecosystems has also been described in the literature (Caliman and Gavrilescu, 2009;de Souza Machado et al, 2018;Gwenzi et al, 2018;Kroon et al, 2020;Vasilachi et al, 2021).…”

Determination of Emerging Contaminants in Cereals by Gas Chromatography-Tandem Mass Spectrometry

“…This group of compounds comprise human and veterinary pharmaceuticals, personal care products, surfactants, plasticizers, and various industrial additives, among others, being the exposure to these substances linked to adverse effects on human health and animals. Their occurrence in different environmental compartments, such as biosolids, effluents from wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs), soil and vegetables is well-documented (Martín-Pozo et al, 2019;Snow et al, 2019). In contrast, studies on ECs levels in cereals are still scarce in the available literature and were mainly focused in the determination of a reduced number of bisphenols and parabens to evaluate the exposure to these compounds through the diet in Sweden, China, Canada, or the United States (Cao et al, 2011;Gyllenhammar et al, 2012;Kannan, 2013, 2014;Liao et al, 2013a,b).…”