Detection of hormones in surface and drinking water in Brazil by LC-ESI-MS/MS and ecotoxicological assessment with Daphnia magna

Torres, Nádia Hortense; Aguiar, Mario; Ferreira, Luiz Fernando Romanholo; Américo, Juliana Heloísa Pinê; Machado, Ângela Aparecida; Cavalcanti, Eliane Bezerra; Tornisielo, Valdemar Luiz

doi:10.1007/s10661-015-4626-z

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“…In 2010 1.1ng/L mean E2 and no EE2 (LOD: 0.14 ng/L) were found in the Ebro basin on the Iberian Peninsula (Gorga et al 2013). High concentrations have been found in the Klang Valley in Malaysia (average E2: 20 ng/L) (Ismail Ahmad 2007), in Venice lagoon (175 ng/L E2 and 34 ng/L EE2) (Pojana et al 2007) and in the Piracicaba River in Brasil (137 and 194 ng/L) (Torres et al 2015).…”

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β-Estradiol and ethinyl-estradiol contamination in the rivers of the Carpathian Basin

Avar

Zrínyi²,

Maász

et al. 2016

Environ Sci Pollut Res

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17β-estradiol (E2) and 17α-ethinyl estradiol (EE2), which are environmental estrogens have been determined with LC-MS in freshwater. Their sensitive analysis needs derivatisation and therefore is very hard to achieve in multiresidue screening. We analysed samples from all the large and some small rivers (River Danube, Drava, Mur, Sava, Tisza and Zala) of the Carpathian Basin and from Lake Balaton. Freshwater was extracted on solid phase and derivatised using dansyl-chloride. Separation was performed on a Kinetex XB-C18 column. Detection was achieved with a benchtop orbitrap mass spectrometer using targeted MS analysis for quantification. Limits of quantification were 0.05 ng/L (MS1) and 0.1 ng/L (MS/MS) for E2, and 0.001 ng/L (MS1) and 0.2 ng/L (MS/MS) for EE2. River samples contained n.d.-5.2 ng/L E2 and n.d.-0.68 ng/L EE2. Average levels of E2 and EE2 were 0.61 and 0.084 ng/L respectively in rivers, water courses and Lake Balaton together, but not counting city canal water. EE2 was less abundant, but it was still present in almost all of the samples. In beach water samples from Lake Balaton we measured 0.076-0.233 E2 and n.d.-0.133 EE2. A relative high amount of EE2 was found in river Zala (0.68 ng/L) and in Hévíz-Páhoki canal (0.52 ng/L), which are both in the catchment area of Lake Balaton (Hungary). HighlightsMethod is proposed for simultaneous determination of 17β-estradiol and 17α-ethinyl estradiol. Derivatization is necessary to reach low LOQ. Low ng/L presence of estrogens in selected European Rivers has been detected.

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β-Estradiol and ethinyl-estradiol contamination in the rivers of the Carpathian Basin

Avar

Zrínyi²,

Maász

et al. 2016

Environ Sci Pollut Res

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“…Very low concentrations of natural steroid hormones, such as estrone, 17α-estradiol, 17β-estradiol, estriol, testosterone, androstenedione and progesterone that occur in animal waste and wastewater have been documented as accumulating in soil [84]. Traces of steroid hormones have also been reported in groundwater [85] and surface water [86], and often in treated municipal wastewater [87][88][89][90][91]. Wastewater treatment plants are known to discharge these hormones into river water and also other recipients [92].…”

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Irrigation Water Quality—A Contemporary Perspective

Malakar

Snow

Ray

2019

Water

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In the race to enhance agricultural productivity, irrigation will become more dependent on poorly characterized and virtually unmonitored sources of water. Increased use of irrigation water has led to impaired water and soil quality in many areas. Historically, soil salinization and reduced crop productivity have been the primary focus of irrigation water quality. Recently, there is increasing evidence for the occurrence of geogenic contaminants in water. The appearance of trace elements and an increase in the use of wastewater has highlighted the vulnerability and complexities of the composition of irrigation water and its role in ensuring proper crop growth, and long-term food quality. Analytical capabilities of measuring vanishingly small concentrations of biologically-active organic contaminants, including steroid hormones, plasticizers, pharmaceuticals, and personal care products, in a variety of irrigation water sources provide the means to evaluate uptake and occurrence in crops but do not resolve questions related to food safety or human health effects. Natural and synthetic nanoparticles are now known to occur in many water sources, potentially altering plant growth and food standard. The rapidly changing quality of irrigation water urgently needs closer attention to understand and predict long-term effects on soils and food crops in an increasingly fresh-water stressed world.

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“…liquid chromatographic-mass spectrometric method with solid-phase extraction, see later) decreased the limit of detection, resulting in an increasing number of detectable SOCs in surface and ground water, as well [47,48]. Nowadays, their reported presence are in a concentration range from a few ng/L to often tens or hundreds of ng/L (estrogens: 0.20-480.00 ng/L, progestogens: 0.07-22.20 ng/L) in surface waters [47,[49][50][51]. The catchment area of the largest shallow lake of Central Europe is a habitat of several molluscs (e.g.…”

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Pond Snail Reproduction as Model in the Environmental Risk Assessment: Reality and Doubts

Pirger¹,

Zrínyi²,

Maász³

et al. 2018

Biological Resources of Water

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In European limnetic systems, the most relevant endocrine-disrupting chemicals (EDCs) of steroid type are the natural and synthetic hormones, phytosterols, pesticides, biocides and other chemicals produced by the plastic industry. Their presence in aquatic ecosystems represents a potentially adverse environmental and public health impact. Furthermore, this is a warning signal that the current handling of pharmaceuticals needs to be further improved. Nowadays, it has become clear that EDCs have specific disturbing effects on the neuroendocrine system of invertebrate and vertebrate aquatic animals, particularly gastropods. Among a latter, pond snail (Lymnaea stagnalis) has been used as the first aquatic non-arthropod test organism in studying the effect of EDCs because they are sensitive to various anthropogenic steroids, like progestogens. Investigating a variety of reproductive endpoints of Lymnaea, such as fecundity, oocyte production, egg mass production, the quality of egg masses, the shell size in development and after egg-laying, the time window of cell division in the offspring, the metabolite content of single-cell zygotes and egg albumen has concluded that progestogen contaminations in water are detrimental for reproduction and early stage development of Lymnaea. This chapter is an attempt to show whether Lymnaea reproduction, despite many altering reproductive endpoints, is a suitable model for environmental risk assessment or not.

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Detection of hormones in surface and drinking water in Brazil by LC-ESI-MS/MS and ecotoxicological assessment with Daphnia magna

Cited by 75 publications

References 55 publications

β-Estradiol and ethinyl-estradiol contamination in the rivers of the Carpathian Basin

β-Estradiol and ethinyl-estradiol contamination in the rivers of the Carpathian Basin

Irrigation Water Quality—A Contemporary Perspective

Pond Snail Reproduction as Model in the Environmental Risk Assessment: Reality and Doubts

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