A pesticide monitoring survey in rivers and lakes of northern Greece and its human and ecotoxicological risk assessment

Tetrahymena pyriformis Phagocytic Activity Test for Rapid Toxicity Assessment of Aquatic Micropollutants

“…Atrazine was detected in the Tejo river basin in 0.24 µg/L concentration [50] and in Lake Vistonis (Greece) in 1.465 µg/L [51]. According to JDS2 [26] atrazine concentrations of 0.0001─5.6 µg/L were detected in river Danube, which are comparable to the detection limit (LOEC=0.05 µg/L) of Tetrahymena pyriformis phagocytic activity assay.…”

Pesticides in the surface waters of Lake Vistonis Basin, Greece: Occurrence and environmental risk assessment

“…The water samples were collected in amber-glass bottles, and transported in ice-boxes (4°C) to the laboratory. Upon reception, and usually within two days, the samples were filtered through paper filters, and subjected to solid-phase extraction as described by Papadakis et al (2015) with slight modifications. For the GC-MS analysis, aliquots of 500 mL were loaded onto Lichrolut EN (200 mg) cartridges which had been previously conditioned by passing 5 mL of methanol and 5 mL of distilled water.…”

“…The lake's basin includes several small rives, lagoons and streams. Despite its ecological significance and although it is an area of intense agricultural production, very few studies have dealt with the presence of pesticides in the major water bodies of the area and their possible ecotoxicological effects Lekkas et al, 2004;Papadakis et al, 2015). Moreover, since the aforementioned studies took place more than fifteen years ago, there is a need for more up-to-date monitoring data.…”

Herbicide micropollutants in surface, ground and drinking waters within and near the area of Zagreb, Croatia

“…water intended for human consumption. The occurrence of herbicide residues and their degradation products in water resources as the result of their extensive use on agricultural and nonagricultural land has been recognised as a serious problem in different parts of the world (Garmouma et al 1997;Close and Flintoft 2004;Drevenkar et al 2004;Scribner et al 2004;Guzzella et al 2006;Konstantinou et al 2006;Na et al 2006;Tran et al 2007;Hladik et al 2008a;Hladik et al 2008b;Kumar and Xagoraraki 2010;Loos et al 2010;Bohn et al 2011;Segura et al 2011;Jin and Peldszus 2012;Aslam et al 2013;Bottoni et al 2013;Hermosin et al 2013;George 2014a, b;Papadakis et al 2015). Atrazine, one of the worlds' most heavily applied herbicides, is regularly found in ground (Close and Flintoft 2004;Scribner et al 2004;Tran et al 2007;Loos et al 2010;Aslamet al 2013) and drinkingwater, aswell asin coastalwaters (Nödler et al 2013) and in sea water and ice in remote areas (Chernyak et al 1996).…”