Invertebrates differentially bioaccumulate pharmaceuticals: Implications for routine biomonitoring*

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Alternative codes found

RIV/00020699:_____/22:N0000094

Result on the web

<a href="https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envpol.2022.119715" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envpol.2022.119715</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.envpol.2022.119715" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.envpol.2022.119715</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Invertebrates differentially bioaccumulate pharmaceuticals: Implications for routine biomonitoring*

Original language description

Surface water quality monitoring programs have been developed to examine traditional contaminants, such as persistent organic pollutants (POPs). However, urbanization, which is increasing around the world, is increasing discharge of treated wastewater and raw sewage in many regions. Pharmaceuticals and their metabolites represent typical markers of such trajectories in urbanization. We selected an ongoing monitoring program, which was designed for routine surveillance of nonionizable POPs in different aquatic matrices, to examine the occurrence of 67 pharmaceuticals and their metabolites in water and multiple bioindicator matrices: benthic invertebrates, juvenile fish, and adult fish (plasma and muscle tissue) from ten river systems with varying levels of watershed development. In addition, we placed zebra mussels and passive samplers in situ for a fixed period. A statistically significant relationship between pharmaceutical levels in passive samplers and biota was found for caged zebra mussels and benthic invertebrates, while only a few pharmaceuticals were identified in fish matrices. Invertebrates, which have received relatively limited study for pharmaceutical bioaccumulation, accumulated more pharmaceuticals than fish, up to thirty different substances. The highest concentration was observed for sertraline in zebra mussels and telmisartan in benthic invertebrates (83 and 31 ng/g ww, respectively). Our results across diverse study systems indicate that ongoing surface water quality monitoring programs, which were originally designed for traditional organic pollutants, need to be revised to account for bioaccumulation dynamics of pharmaceuticals and other ionizable contaminants. Aquatic monitoring programs routinely examine accumulation of nonionizable organic pollutants; however, we identified that these efforts need to be revised to account for bioaccumulation of ionizable contaminants, which reached higher levels in invertebrates than in fish.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10511 - Environmental sciences (social aspects to be 5.7)

Project

Result was created during the realization of more than one project. More information in the Projects tab.

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2022

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Environmental Pollution

ISSN

0269-7491

e-ISSN

1873-6424

Volume of the periodical

309

Issue of the periodical within the volume

neuvedeno

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

10

Pages from-to

nestrankovano

UT code for WoS article

000831061200006

EID of the result in the Scopus database

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