Journal
ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND POLLUTION RESEARCH
Volume 27, Issue 16, Pages 19746-19753Publisher
SPRINGER HEIDELBERG
DOI: 10.1007/s11356-020-08438-4
Keywords
Manure; Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs; Soil; Pharmaceuticals; Sorption
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- Agriculture and Food Research Initiative competitive grant from the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture [2013-67019-21375]
- NIFA [577412, 2013-67019-21375] Funding Source: Federal RePORTER
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A large percentage of flunixin, a nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug widely used for treating livestock, is excreted in intact form and thus potentially available for environmental transport. As the fate of flunixin in the environment is unknown, our objective was to quantify sorption, desorption, and transformation in five agricultural soils and manure using batch equilibrium methods. Concentrations of flunixin and degradation products were determined by high performance liquid chromatography time of flight mass spectrometry. For all studied soils, sorption of flunixin exhibited linear character, with both linear and Freundlich models providing adequate fit. Linear sorption coefficients varied from 8 to 112 L kg(-1). The strongest Pearson correlations with sorption coefficients were for clay content (r = 0.8693), total nitrogen (r = 0.7998), and organic carbon (r = 0.6291). Desorption of the reversibly bound fraction (3-10% of total sorbed flunixin) from all five studied soils exhibited non-hysteretic character suggesting low affinity of this fraction of flunixin to soil. Flunixin degradation in soils was relatively slow, exhibiting half-lives of 39-203 days, thus providing time for off-site transport and environmental contamination. The biological impacts of flunixin at environmentally relevant concentrations must be determined given its environmental behavior and extensive use as a nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug in livestock.
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