The influence of sulfathiazole on the macroalgae Ulva lactuca

Leston, Sara; Nunes, Manuela Barreto; Viegas, Iván; Nebot, Carolina; Cepeda, Alberto; Pardal, Miguel Ângelo; Ramos, Fernando

doi:10.1016/j.chemosphere.2013.12.038

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“…Furthermore, it negatively affected the growth of U. lactuca. However, chloramphenicol was shown to be a growth promoter for U. lactuca (Leston et al, 2011;Leston et al, 2014;Leston, Nunes, Viegas, Ramos, & Pardal, 2013).…”

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Food safety hazards in the European seaweed chain

Banach

Hil

Fels‐Klerx

2020

Comp Rev Food Sci Food Safe

136

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Seaweed is a source of protein that can help overcome the anticipated challenges of a growing world population and the current challenges for finding alternatives for animal proteins in the Western diet. Thus far, data on the safety of seaweed for feed and food purposes in the Western world are scattered. This study aimed to review the available knowledge on the presence of food safety hazards in seaweed, including factors influencing their presence, and to prioritize the hazards that may pose a risk to human health. Given current knowledge from the literature, data from the Rapid Alert System for Food and Feed, and results from a stakeholder survey, 22 food safety hazards were ranked into major (4), moderate (5), and minor (13) hazards. Arsenic, cadmium, iodine, and Salmonella were identified as major hazards. Hazards, where data gaps exist, should be carefully assessed. These include pesticide residues, dioxins and polychlorinated biphenyls, brominated flame retardants, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, pharmaceuticals, marine biotoxins, allergens, micro‐ and nanoplastics, other pathogenic bacteria, norovirus, and hepatitis E virus. It is recommended to collect more data on these hazards in future studies. Many factors can affect the presence of hazards including seaweed type, physiology, season, harvest and cultivation environment, geography including the location of cultivation, alongside further processing. Moreover, when seaweed is cultivated near industrialized or anthropogenic activities, these activities may negatively influence water quality, which can increase the likelihood of hazards in seaweed. Results of the ranking prioritized hazards can be used to prioritize monitoring programs and adjusted given future additional knowledge covering the data gaps.

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Food safety hazards in the European seaweed chain

Banach

Hil

Fels‐Klerx

2020

Comp Rev Food Sci Food Safe

136

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“…The algae treatment contributed to the toxicity control in the effluent, while had a little fraction of the total removal efficiency. 30 Skeletonema costatum was able to detoxify 2,4-dichlorophenol by conjugation to glutathione catalyzed by glutathione S-transferase. The second stage was that these more toxic by-products were further converted into non-toxic byproducts.…”

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Understanding the algal contribution in combined UV-algae treatment to remove antibiotic cefradine

Zhang

Guo

et al. 2015

RSC Adv.

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The aim of this study is to investigate the algal contribution in a combined UV-algae treatment to remove the commonly used antibiotic cefradine. We evaluated the removal capacity of the individual alga (Chlorella pyrenoidosa), UV activated and combined UV-algae treatments. The toxic effect of the effluents treated by the above process on the standard test organism rotifer (Brachionus calyciflorus) was also investigated. Our results showed that the individual algae treatment was inefficient at removing the antibiotic. Although the UV treatment decreased the antibiotic concentration efficiently (26.93% residue), it also increased the toxicity of the effluent (1.04 times of the parent compound). However, the relatively high removal efficiency (22.01% residue) and the reduced toxicity of the effluent (nearly half of that by the individual UV treatment) were obtained synchronously after the UV-algae combined treatment. The contribution of the algae was also confirmed by investigating the corresponding properties of the combined UV-activated sludge treatment and the combined UV-activated sludge-algae treatment. Our present study supported our hypothesis that (1) the performance of the individual algae treatment was inferior to the individual UV irradiation; (2) the algae treatment was necessary in a UV-algae combined treatment system to control the toxicity of the effluent after the UV treatment process.

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“…The mechanism of detoxification of the green alga in question permits to take advantage of the species for bioindication in the environmental risk assessment, whereas from an ecological viewpoint, it shows the potential for sulfathiazole bioaccumulation, which, with the role of macroalga as the main producer in the trophic network, poses a risk of biomagnification (Leston et al 2014). Wu et al (2010) checked the uptake of three pharmaceuticals (carbamazepine, diphenhydramine and fluoxetine) and two personal care products (triclosan and triclocarban), by an important agricultural speciessoybean (Glycine max Merr.…”

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Pharmaceuticals in the Soil and Plant Environment: a Review

Gworek

Kijeńska

Wrzosek

et al. 2021

Water Air Soil Pollut

125

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Pharmaceuticals are a class of biologically active compounds used in human and veterinary medicine, while some of them may be applied for feed production and plant growth stimulation. To systemise the knowledge on pharmaceuticals in plant and soil environment, a literature review was performed. Active substances of pharmaceuticals and their metabolites are typically released into the environment through agricultural application of wastewater and sewage biosolids containing pharmaceuticals, derived from wastewater discharged by households, hospitals and other medical facilities. Another, no less important, source of pharmaceutical release are natural fertilisers (manure and slurry). The fate and behaviour of pharmaceuticals in the soil, including their mobility and availability to plants, depends on the soil physical, chemical and biological properties as well as on the properties of the substance itself. Pharmaceuticals introduced into the soil are taken up and retained in various plant parts. In general, the highest accumulation coefficients have been found in vegetative plant parts, in the following decreasing order: roots> leaves> stems, while the lowest in generative parts, such as grains of cereals.

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The influence of sulfathiazole on the macroalgae Ulva lactuca

Cited by 28 publications

References 37 publications

Food safety hazards in the European seaweed chain

Food safety hazards in the European seaweed chain

Understanding the algal contribution in combined UV-algae treatment to remove antibiotic cefradine

Pharmaceuticals in the Soil and Plant Environment: a Review

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