Pesticides in Greenhouse Runoff, Soil and Plants: A Screening

Abstract

A research has been undertaken studying pesticide losses from areas with intense agricultural and horticultural productions such as vegetables, cotton, pot plants and flowers, taking grab and composite samples including using passive SPMD samplers in ditches, creeks, rivers and groundwater, in addition to greenhouse and imported products. Pesticides were frequently found, occasionally in high concentrations, both in the products and in the environment. Endosulfan could be detected in the products, in pot soil and in plants, and also in the water samples, even in areas where it has been banned for several decades. Dilute concentrations of endosulfan can be detected by using passive samplers.

Risk of potential pesticide use to honeybee and bumblebee survival and distribution: A country‐wide analysis for The Netherlands

“…Secondly, the potential pesticide use data should be specified for every year separately, following the changes in the CTGB’s allowed pesticides database. Thirdly, as noted previously, the inclusion of pesticide risk posed by greenhouses, for the runoff water from this source has been found to contain pesticides (Haarstad, Bavor, & Roseth, ; Tamis, van’t Zelfde, & Vijver, ). Fourthly, incorporating knowledge concerning the actual pesticide use in the Netherlands is crucial to grasp the local variations in the risk posed by pesticides.…”

Metabolite profiles of striped marsh frog (Limnodynastes peronii) larvae exposed to the anti-androgenic fungicides vinclozolin and propiconazole are consistent with altered steroidogenesis and oxidative stress

“…Maximal vinclozolin concentrations in natural aquatic matrices have been predicted to be as high as 52 μg/L (Steeger and Garber, 2009), but the limited available monitoring data suggests surface water concentrations closer to 0.5 μg/L (Readman et al, 1997;Tillmann et al, 2001). Expected environmental concentrations for propiconazole have been suggested to be as high as 80 μg/L (DeLorenzo et al, 2001) but monitoring data again reports conazole fungicides at much lower concentrations (< 0.1 -7.7 μg/L) in aquatic environments (Haarstad, 2012;Wightwick et al, 2011). Both fungicides are considered anti-androgenic (Lor et al, 2015;Makynen et al, 2000;Skolness et al, 2013;van Ravenzwaay et al, 2013) and there is evidence that they also elicit oxidative stress (Bruno et al, 2009;Gazo et al, 2013;Radice et al, 1998;Tu et al, 2015).…”