Environmental Mass Spectrometry: Emerging Contaminants and Current Issues

Richardson, Susan D.

doi:10.1021/ac202903d

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“…It is impossible to imagine our modern Western society without them; hundreds or thousands of different pharmaceuticals are currently used and distributed including pain killers, antibiotics, anti-diabetics, b-blockers, lipid regulators (anti-lipemics), anti-depressants, antiepileptics, and X-ray contrast media (Richardson 2008). The use of pharmaceuticals still rises due to increasing use to prevent instead of to cure diseases, due to applying them as additives in food products and due to aging of population in WesternEuropean countries (RIWA Vereniging van Rivierwaterbedrijven 2008; Van der Aa et al 2009).…”

Section: Pharmaceuticalsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Emerging contaminants in surface waters and their relevance for the production of drinking water in Europe

Houtman

2010

Journal of Integrative Environmental Sciences

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An increasing part of drinking water in Europe is prepared from surface water. At the same time, a growing number of emerging contaminants is being discovered in surface water. This review provides an overview of classes of emerging contaminants nowadays detected in the aquatic environment that are of relevance for drinking water production. These comprise e.g. endocrine disrupting compounds, such as hormones and compounds with hormone-like properties, pharmaceuticals, illicit and non-controlled drugs, sweeteners, personal care products, complexing agents, nanoparticles, perfluorinated compounds, flame retardants, pesticides, and fuel additives. The individual compounds are observed in concentrations that are generally considered too low to cause acute effects. Nevertheless, health effects due to long-term exposure to a mixture of low concentrations of all kinds of emerging contaminants cannot be excluded with current knowledge. Moreover, contamination of drinking water with man-made substances is considered unwanted in principle. The precautionary principle is used to motivate that prevention of emission of emerging contaminants into the environment is the preferred approach to safeguard sustainable drinking water production. In the mean time, extensive monitoring of the sources and development and application of advanced treatment techniques are used to prepare safe drinking water.

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Section: Pharmaceuticalsmentioning

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Emerging contaminants in surface waters and their relevance for the production of drinking water in Europe

Houtman

2010

Journal of Integrative Environmental Sciences

207

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“…These compounds were classified as emerging environmental pollutants some years ago (Richardson, 2004), but yet there is a lack of knowledge about their occurrence, fate and effects on the aquatic ecosystems. These emerging pollutants are considered as pseudo-persistent because they are continuously introduced into the aquatic environment through two pathways: direct inputs as consequence of recreational water activities and mainly, indirect inputs from WWTPs as a result of the domestic use of PCPs, as well as industrial waste (Gago-Ferrero et al, 2013a).…”

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Occurrence, fate and risk assessment of personal care products in river–groundwater interface

Serra-Roig

Jurado

Díaz-Cruz

et al. 2016

Science of The Total Environment

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This work presents the occurrence and fate of selected personal care products (PCPs) in the urban river-groundwater interface. To this end, urban river and groundwater samples were collected in Sant Adrià del Besòs (NE of Spain) and a total of 16 PCPs were analyzed including benzophenone derivatives, camphor derivatives, p-aminobenzoic acid derivatives, triazoles and parabens in three different campaigns (from May 2010 to July 2014). These compounds reach the aquifer through the recharge of Besòs River that receives large amounts of effluents from waste water treatment plants.Results shown that most of compounds were not or barely detected (maximum concentrations around 200 ng/L) in groundwater samples during the different sampling campaigns. Only two triazoles, namely benzotriazole (BZT) and methyl benzotriazol (MeBZT) were found at high concentrations in groundwater samples (maximum concentration around 2000 ng/L). The fate of PCPs in the aquifer was assessed using mixing analysis considering the seasonal variability of the Besòs River. Overall, measured groundwater concentrations were significantly much lower than those estimated by the mixing of the river water. This observation suggested that most of the PCPs are naturally removed when river water infiltrates the aquifer. However, some compounds were more persistent in the aquifer. These compounds were in descending order: the triazoles BZT and MeBZT followed by the camphor derivative 4MBC and the paraben MePB. The measured concentrations allowed us to assess the environmental risk posed by the selected UV-filters and parabens in the river and groundwater samples. Hazard Quotients (HQs) for different aquatic species were calculated in order to characterise the ecotoxicity potential of the studied compounds in the river-groundwater interface.HQ values were always below 1 indicating that at the concentrations observed in the surface or aquifer water of Besòs River these compounds pose no risk to the selected aquatic organisms.

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“…To unravel the fates of TBBPA and its derivatives, the identification of unknown products is frequently performed using LC/GC coupled with MS [54,55].…”

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Recent advances in the analysis of TBBPA/TBBPS, TBBPA/TBBPS derivatives and their transformation products

Liu

et al. 2016

TrAC Trends in Analytical Chemistry

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Environmental Mass Spectrometry: Emerging Contaminants and Current Issues

Cited by 325 publications

References 247 publications

Emerging contaminants in surface waters and their relevance for the production of drinking water in Europe

Emerging contaminants in surface waters and their relevance for the production of drinking water in Europe

Occurrence, fate and risk assessment of personal care products in river–groundwater interface

Recent advances in the analysis of TBBPA/TBBPS, TBBPA/TBBPS derivatives and their transformation products

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