Journal
ENVIRONMENTAL TOXICOLOGY AND CHEMISTRY
Volume 40, Issue 2, Pages 435-446Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/etc.4929
Keywords
Bisphenol A; Congeners; Environmental fate; WWTP; Receiving surface water; Contaminants of emerging concern
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- Ministry of Education and Research through the national research programme Nucleu [38N/2018, PN 18 05 01 01]
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The study investigated the distribution and environmental fate of Bisphenol A, its metabolite, and other congeners in wastewater treatment plants and rivers in Romania. Results showed higher concentrations of BPA in surface water compared to effluent samples, indicating possible intrinsic contamination of the rivers. Risk assessments suggested low ecological risk and no human health risk from BPA presence in the rivers.
The present study investigated the distribution and environmental fate of Bisphenol A (BPA), the 4-hydroxyacetophenone (4-HAP) metabolite, and 5 other bisphenol congeners in 2 municipal wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) and their receiving rivers in Romania. Accordingly, a new, highly sensitive and accurate solid-phase extraction-liquid chromatography-electrospray ionization-tandem mass spectrometry method was developed and validated. This technique generated low limit of quantitation values: below 2.3 ng/L for surface water and less than 2.4 and 2.7 ng/L for WWTP effluent and influent water. The sum of detected analytes in wastewater was between 1337 and 16 118 ng/L for influent samples and between 15 and 96 ng/L for effluent samples. In surface water, the total of all compounds was somewhere between 34 and 240 ng/L. The highest concentration observed was for BPA in all 3 types of analyzed water (up to 9140 ng/L for influent, as high as 75 ng/L for effluent, and a maximum of 135 ng/L in surface waters). All analyzed samples were free of bisphenols B, C, and F. For all analytes detected in surface water, the concentration values were higher than those determined in the effluent samples, which may be caused by intrinsic contamination of the 2 rivers (Danube and Jiu Rivers). Values of environmental risk coefficients, calculated for both effluents and surface waters, indicated a low ecological risk or no ecological risk for 3 types of organisms (algae, daphnia, and fish). Human risk assessment calculation suggests no risk to human health as a result of the presence of BPA in either of the 2 rivers. Environ Toxicol Chem 2020;00:1-12. (c) 2020 SETAC
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