Study of the uptake of non-steroid anti-inflammatory drugs in wheat and soybean after application of sewage sludge as a fertilizer

Cortés, José M.; Larsson, Niklas; Jönsson, Jan Åke

doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2013.01.061

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“…These are often applied to agricultural land as a fertiliser in some countries. Despite lengthy digestion (20e30 days) and outdoor storage for up to six months following treatment, some ECs have shown to persist (Cort es et al, 2013). No legislation currently controls the use of biosolids on agricultural land with respect to concentration of ECs.…”

Section: Biosolids and Amended Soilsmentioning

confidence: 99%

A review on emerging contaminants in wastewaters and the environment: Current knowledge, understudied areas and recommendations for future monitoring

2015

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This review identifies understudied areas of emerging contaminant (EC) research in wastewaters and the environment, and recommends direction for future monitoring. Non-regulated trace organic ECs including pharmaceuticals, illicit drugs and personal care products are focused on due to ongoing policy initiatives and the expectant broadening of environmental legislation. These ECs are ubiquitous in the aquatic environment, mainly derived from the discharge of municipal wastewater effluents. Their presence is of concern due to the possible ecological impact (e.g., endocrine disruption) to biota within the environment. To better understand their fate in wastewaters and in the environment, a standardised approach to sampling is needed. This ensures representative data is attained and facilitates a better understanding of spatial and temporal trends of EC occurrence. During wastewater treatment, there is a lack of suspended particulate matter analysis due to further preparation requirements and a lack of good analytical approaches. This results in the under-reporting of several ECs entering wastewater treatment works (WwTWs) and the aquatic environment. Also, sludge can act as a concentrating medium for some chemicals during wastewater treatment. The majority of treated sludge is applied directly to agricultural land without analysis for ECs. As a result there is a paucity of information on the fate of ECs in soils and consequently, there has been no driver to investigate the toxicity to exposed terrestrial organisms. Therefore a more holistic approach to environmental monitoring is required, such that the fate and impact of ECs in all exposed environmental compartments are studied. The traditional analytical approach of applying targeted screening with low resolution mass spectrometry (e.g., triple quadrupoles) results in numerous chemicals such as transformation products going undetected. These can exhibit similar toxicity to the parent EC, demonstrating the necessity of using an integrated analytical approach which compliments targeted and non-targeted screening with biological assays to measure ecological impact. With respect to current toxicity testing protocols, failure to consider the enantiomeric distribution of chiral compounds found in the environment, and the possible toxicological differences between enantiomers is concerning. Such information is essential for the development of more accurate environmental risk assessment.

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Section: Biosolids and Amended Soilsmentioning

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2015

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“…The open circle represents the mild outlier. Shenker et al, 2011;Wu et al, 2010), or amended with manure (Hu et al, 2010;Kumar et al, 2005), sewage sludge (Cortés et al, 2013), or biosolids (Aryal and Reinhold, 2011;Holling et al, 2012;Prosser et al, 2014a). The BCFs between plant tissues and soil are presented in Figs.…”

Section: Ppcps In Plants Grown In Soilmentioning

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Plant uptake of pharmaceutical and personal care products from recycled water and biosolids: a review

Dodgen

Conkle

et al. 2015

Science of The Total Environment

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“…Furthermore, and perhaps most importantly, they neglect to account for the influence of the soil system upon bioavailability of the target compound. Several studies that have investigated pharmaceutical uptake by plants, have found different and sometimes opposing effects (Boonsaner and Hawker, 2010;Calderón-Preciado et al, 2011;Cortes et al, 2013;Eggen et al, 2011;Huber et al, 2012), which is likely due to differences in experimental design and therefore compound behaviour and bioavailability (Wu et al, 2013). Therefore the design of an experiment must be chosen to reflect the research question being posed.…”

Section: Water Contentmentioning

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Evaluation of biological endpoints in crop plants after exposure to non‐steroidal anti‐inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs): Implications for phytotoxicological assessment of novel contaminants

Schmidt

Redshaw

2015

Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety

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Study of the uptake of non-steroid anti-inflammatory drugs in wheat and soybean after application of sewage sludge as a fertilizer

Cited by 53 publications

References 30 publications

A review on emerging contaminants in wastewaters and the environment: Current knowledge, understudied areas and recommendations for future monitoring

A review on emerging contaminants in wastewaters and the environment: Current knowledge, understudied areas and recommendations for future monitoring

Plant uptake of pharmaceutical and personal care products from recycled water and biosolids: a review

Evaluation of biological endpoints in crop plants after exposure to non‐steroidal anti‐inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs): Implications for phytotoxicological assessment of novel contaminants

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