Bioaccumulation and trophic transfer of perfluorinated alkyl substances (PFAS) in marine biota from the Belgian North Sea: Distribution and human health risk implications

Teunen, Lies; Groffen, Thimo; Lasters, Robin; Bervoets, Lieven

doi:10.1016/j.envpol.2022.119907

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“…The spatial differences in PFOS concentrations in fish caught in (the data-rich year) 2021 at locations from across the country are visualized in Supporting Information, Figure S2B. Overall, the current fish database demonstrates PFAS concentrations on the same order of magnitude (low to medium micrograms per kilogram wet wt range) as those previously detected in Dutch fish (Zafeiraki et al, 2019) and fish from, for example, the Laurentian Great Lakes (Point et al, 2021), European lakes (Valsecchi et al, 2021), and Belgium (Byns et al, 2022;Teunen et al, 2021).…”

Section: Spatial Trendsmentioning

confidence: 62%

“…Another way of presenting PFAS concentrations is by plotting the concentrations of all compounds per location in a single graph. This is done in Supporting Information, Figure S4, by plotting all compounds separately, instead of in stacked columns as is done in most other studies (Byns et al, 2022; Langberg et al, 2022; Point et al, 2021; Remucal, 2019; Schultes et al, 2020; Teunen et al, 2021; Valsecchi et al, 2021; Zafeiraki et al, 2019), because stacked bar charts are somewhat difficult to interpret. Supporting Information, Figure S4, presents a location‐specific PFAS profile or “fingerprint” for all locations, based on the 2022 aqueous concentrations.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Per‐ and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances in Water (2008–2022) and Fish (2015–2022) in The Netherlands: Spatiotemporal Trends, Fingerprints, Mass Discharges, Sources, and Bioaccumulation Factors

Jonker

2024

Enviro Toxic and Chemistry

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Per‐ and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) are persistent, bioaccumulative, and toxic synthetic chemicals of concern, which have been detected in nearly all environmental compartments. The present study provides a data analysis on PFAS concentrations in the Dutch inland and coastal national waters and fish sampled from 2008 to 2022 and 2015 to 2022, respectively. Although the fish database is relatively small, the water database is unique because of its temporal dimension. It appears that PFAS are omnipresent in Dutch water and fish, with relatively small spatial differences in absolute and relative concentrations (fingerprints) and few obvious temporal trends. Only perfluorooctanoic acid and perfluorooctanesulfonic acid (PFOS) aqueous concentrations in the rivers Rhine and Scheldt have substantially decreased since 2012. Still, PFOS concentrations exceed the European water quality standards at all and fish standards at many locations. Masses of PFAS entering the country and the North Sea are roughly 3.5 tonnes/year. Generally, the data suggest that most PFAS enter the Dutch aquatic environment predominantly through diffuse sources, yet several major point sources of specific PFAS were identified using fingerprints and monthly concentration profiles as identification tools. Finally, combining concentrations in fish and water, 265 bioaccumulation factors were derived, showing no statistically significant differences between freshwater and marine fish. Overall, the analysis provides new insights into PFAS bioaccumulation and spatiotemporal trends, mass discharges, and sources in The Netherlands. Environ Toxicol Chem 2024;00:1–11. © 2024 The Authors. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry published by Wiley Periodicals LLC on behalf of SETAC.

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Section: Spatial Trendsmentioning

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confidence: 99%

Per‐ and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances in Water (2008–2022) and Fish (2015–2022) in The Netherlands: Spatiotemporal Trends, Fingerprints, Mass Discharges, Sources, and Bioaccumulation Factors

Jonker

2024

Enviro Toxic and Chemistry

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“…Similarly, predictions of the bioaccumulation of PFAS in aquatic and terrestrial organisms are not reliable, due to a lack of mechanistic understanding of the influence of the physicochemical and molecular properties on sorption behavior in soils and sediments and on the uptake of PFAS in biota. Moreover, recent publications have reported the absence of significant correlations between traditional molecular descriptors, such as chain length, and bioaccumulation or biomagnification of PFAS (Byns et al, 2022; Mazzoni et al, 2020). Phospholipid membrane/water partition coefficients ( K MW ) could serve as an alternative or complementary predictor of PFAS bioaccumulation potential (Droge, 2019; Ebert et al, 2020).…”

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Research Priorities for the Environmental Risk Assessment of Per‐ and Polyfluorinated Substances

Gkika,

Xie,

van Gestel

et al. 2023

Enviro Toxic and Chemistry

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Per‐ and polyfluorinated substances (PFAS) are a group of thousands ubiquitously applied persistent industrial chemicals. The field of PFAS environmental research is developing rapidly, but suffers from substantial biases towards specific compounds, environmental compartments, and organisms. The aim of this perspective was therefore to highlight current developments, and to identify knowledge gaps and subsequent research needs that would contribute to a comprehensive environmental risk assessment for PFAS. To this end, we consulted the open literature and databases, revealing that knowledge of the environmental fate of PFAS is based on the analysis of less than 1% of the compounds categorized as PFAS. Moreover, soils and suspended particulate matter (SPM) remain largely understudied. PFAS bioavailability, bioaccumulation and food web transfer studies also focus on a very limited number of compounds and are biased towards aquatic biota. Fish are predominantly studied, while aquatic invertebrates and macrophytes are included less frequently. The available ecotoxicity data revealed that only a few PFAS have been well‐studied for their environmental hazards, and that PFAS ecotoxicity data are strongly biased towards aquatic organisms as well. This emphasizes the need to catch up with ecotoxicity studies in the terrestrial environment. Considering the persistency and bioaccumulation of PFAS, more chronic, multigeneration and community ecotoxicity studies are needed. Finally, we identified the urgent need to unravel the relationship between sorption, bioaccumulation and ecotoxicity on the one hand and molecular descriptors of PFAS chemical structures and physicochemical properties on the other, to enable prediction of exposure, bioaccumulation and toxicity.

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“…Due to their low biodegradability and lipophilicity, PAHs and PFCs may accumulate in the aquatic environment. They could be found at high concentrations in organisms, which endanger human health throughout the food chain 7–10 . Although the detection of PAHs and PFCs in the aquatic environment is of great significance, traditional analytical methods require relatively complicated logistics, including sample collection, transportation, extraction, and concentration, consuming a lot of human, material, and financial resources.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…They could be found at high concentrations in organisms, which endanger human health throughout the food chain. [7][8][9][10] Although the detection of PAHs and PFCs in the aquatic environment is of great significance, traditional analytical methods require relatively complicated logistics, including sample collection, transportation, extraction, and concentration, consuming a lot of human, material, and financial resources. Moreover, the entire workflow is time-consuming, preventing a timely response in an emergency.…”

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Rapid on‐site detection of persistent organic pollutants using multiwalled carbon nanotube–modified paper spray ionization and a miniature mass spectrometer

Guo

Bai

et al. 2023

Rapid Comm Mass Spectrometry

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RationaleRapid on‐site detection of persistent organic pollutants (POP) is highly desirable for environmental protection.MethodsHerein, a rapid on‐site analytical workflow was developed for the investigation of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons and perfluorinated compounds using multiwalled carbon nanotube–modified paper spray ionization (PSI) coupled with a miniature ion trap mass spectrometer. Critical parameters regarding PSI and miniature mass spectrometry analysis were optimized.ResultsThe analytical performance of the developed method was evaluated under optimized conditions, obtaining a short analysis duration of less than 1 min, sufficient linearity with correlation coefficients greater than 0.99, acceptable recovery rates of 93.1%–105.8% with relative standard deviations of between 3.5% and 10.3%, and reasonable sensitivity with limits of detection and quantitation of 2–200 and 5–500 μg/L, respectively.ConclusionsConsidering these aspects, it was concluded that the present approach demonstrated a promising solution for rapid on‐site detection of emerging POPs.

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Bioaccumulation and trophic transfer of perfluorinated alkyl substances (PFAS) in marine biota from the Belgian North Sea: Distribution and human health risk implications

Cited by 38 publications

References 76 publications

Per‐ and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances in Water (2008–2022) and Fish (2015–2022) in The Netherlands: Spatiotemporal Trends, Fingerprints, Mass Discharges, Sources, and Bioaccumulation Factors

Per‐ and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances in Water (2008–2022) and Fish (2015–2022) in The Netherlands: Spatiotemporal Trends, Fingerprints, Mass Discharges, Sources, and Bioaccumulation Factors

Research Priorities for the Environmental Risk Assessment of Per‐ and Polyfluorinated Substances

Rapid on‐site detection of persistent organic pollutants using multiwalled carbon nanotube–modified paper spray ionization and a miniature mass spectrometer

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