Europe-wide estuarine export and surface water concentrations of PFOS and PFOA

Lindim, Cláudia; Gils, Jos van; Cousins, Ian T.

doi:10.1016/j.watres.2016.07.024

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“…After model applications for individual substances (PFOS, PFOA, [13,14]), toxic risks to aquatic ecosystems of 1785 chemicals produced in Europe have been simulated and potential drivers of mixture toxicity have been identified [12]. This exercise provided a spatially variable picture, especially for pharmaceuticals and pesticides, due to differences in the use intensity between EU countries.…”

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The European Collaborative Project SOLUTIONS developed models to provide diagnostic and prognostic capacity and fill data gaps for chemicals of emerging concern

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The European Union Water Framework Directives aims at achieving good ecological status in member states' water bodies. Insufficient ecological status could be the result of different interacting stressors, among them the presence of many thousands of chemicals. The diagnosis of the likelihood that these chemicals negatively affect the ecological status of surface waters or human health, and the subsequent development of abatement measures usually relies on water quality monitoring. This gives an incomplete picture of chemicals' contamination, due to the limited number of monitoring stations, samples and substances. Information gaps thus limit the possibilities to protect against and effectively manage chemicals in aquatic ecosystems. The EU FP7 SOLUTIONS project has developed and validated a collection of integrated models ("Model Train") to increase our understanding of issues related to emerging chemicals in Europe's river basins and to complement information and knowledge derived from field data. Unlike pre-existing models, the Model Train is suitable to model mixtures of thousands of chemicals, to better approach a "real-life" mixture exposure situation. It can also be used to model new chemicals at a stage where not much is known about them. The application of these models on a European scale provides temporally and spatially variable concentration data to fill gaps in the space, time and substance domains left open by water quality monitoring, and it provides homogeneous data across Europe where water quality data from monitoring are missing. Thus, it helps to avoid overlooking candidate chemicals and possible hot spots for management intervention. The application of the SOLUTIONS Model Train on a European scale presents a relevant line of evidence for water system level prognostic and diagnostic impact assessment related to chemical pollution. The application supports the design of cost-effective programmes of measures by helping to identify the most affected sites and the responsible substances, by evaluating alternative abatement options and by exploring the consequences of future trends. which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made.

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“…PFOA was the most abundant PFCs in crab meat at 22.2 ng/g, which accounted for 60.7% of the total content. PFOA is one of the most highly detectable PFC pollutants in environmental water, which is mainly attributed to its considerable watersolubility (about 3 times higher than PFOS) [25]. PFOA showed the most significant reduction after steaming compared to other PFCs, from 22.2 to 15.0 ng/g, reaching a 32.6% decrease.…”

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Reduction of perfluorinated compound content in fish cake and swimming crab by different cooking methods

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Perfluorinated compounds (PFCs) are widely used in industries, and have become common environmental pollutants. Consumption of aquatic foods and its processed products can result in the accumulation and maintenance of PFCs in organs of human body, which can lead to toxic consequences and poisoning. The aim of this study was to evaluate the reducing effects of PFC contents in fish cake and swimming crab by different cooking conditions. Fish cake was processed with blanching, boiling, frying, stir-frying and swimming crab was pretreated with soaking and cooked by steaming and stewing. The change of PFCs were determined using LC-MS/MS. Boiling reduced the total PFCs in fish cake by up to 45.9%. As for swimming crab, soaking, steaming and stewing have reduced 65.7%, 17.6% and 13.3% of PFCs, respectively. These results suggest that cooking method involving water addition and high-temperature heating would be effective at reducing PFCs (PFOA especially) in food. which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made.

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“…EU-wide environmental quality standards (EQS) were set for PFOS and its derivatives in surface freshwater, coastal and transitional water (European Commission 2013b). Surface water monitoring data from across the EU shows the widespread occurrence of PFAS, with frequent exceedance of the EQS for PFOS (0.65 ng L −1 ) (Pistocchi and Loos 2009, CON-CAWE 2016, Lindim et al 2016. In most EU countries no regulatory standards have been set for groundwater.…”

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Developing a groundwater watch list for substances of emerging concern: a European perspective

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There is growing concern globally about the occurrence of anthropogenic organic contaminants in the environment, including pharmaceuticals and personal care products. This concern extends to groundwater, which is a critical water resource in Europe, and its protection is a priority to the European Commission, the European Union (EU) Member States and national agencies across Europe. Maintaining good groundwater status supports improved public health, economic growth and sustains groundwater dependant ecosystems. A range of measures have been introduced for regulating several substances that have impacted groundwater (e.g. nitrate and pesticides). However, these measures only cover a small fraction of anthropogenic substances that could pollute groundwater. Monitoring for these unregulated substances is currently very limited or not carried out at all. Therefore, a coordinated European-wide approach is needed to identify, monitor and characterise priority substances or groups of substances that have the potential to pollute groundwater. This evidence base is critical for policy development and controls on these currently unregulated substances. The European Commission highlighted this as a need during the review of the EU Groundwater Directive Annexes in 2014, when the requirement to develop a Groundwater Watch List (GWWL) was established. This paper describes the approach that has been developed through a voluntary initiative as part of the EU CIS Working Group Groundwater to establish the voluntary EU GWWL. The process for developing the GWWL is one that has brought together researchers, regulators and industry, and is described here for the first time. A summary of the key principles behind the methodology is presented as well as results from pilot studies using per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances and pharmaceuticals. These explore and support the viability of the GWWL process, an important step towards its adoption and its future use for groundwater protection across Europe.

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Europe-wide estuarine export and surface water concentrations of PFOS and PFOA

Cited by 80 publications

References 42 publications

The European Collaborative Project SOLUTIONS developed models to provide diagnostic and prognostic capacity and fill data gaps for chemicals of emerging concern

The European Collaborative Project SOLUTIONS developed models to provide diagnostic and prognostic capacity and fill data gaps for chemicals of emerging concern

Reduction of perfluorinated compound content in fish cake and swimming crab by different cooking methods

Developing a groundwater watch list for substances of emerging concern: a European perspective

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