Journal
ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND POLLUTION RESEARCH
Volume 28, Issue 26, Pages 35064-35072Publisher
SPRINGER HEIDELBERG
DOI: 10.1007/s11356-021-13133-z
Keywords
Atrazine; Dissipation; Residue; Dietary risk assessment; Ecological risk assessment
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Funding
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [31501667, 51772289]
- National Key Research and Development Program of China [2016YFD0201200, 2016YFD0201207]
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The study assessed the dietary and ecological risks of atrazine widely used in China. It found that intake of atrazine from apples, grapes, and tea under good agricultural practices poses low health risk to consumers, but the residues in soil pose a high risk to environmental species. These results highlight the importance of comprehensive risk assessment and proper use of atrazine in apple, grape, and tea gardens.
Atrazine is one of the most used herbicides in China. It is a persistent organic pollutant but has been widely used on Chinese farmlands for a long time. To assess its dietary and ecological risks to human and environment, in this study, atrazine residues were extracted with acetonitrile and then plant samples were detected with gas chromatography coupled with mass spectrometry (GC-MS) and soil samples were determined with gas chromatography coupled with nitrogen-phosphorus detector (GC-NPD). The limit of quantification (LOQ) of the method was 0.01 mg/kg for all matrices. The recoveries ranged from 82.0 to 105.4% for plant samples and 75.6 to 85.6% for soil samples. The final residues of atrazine in all plant samples were lower than LOQ. Dietary risk assessment suggested that under good agricultural practices (GAP) conditions, intake of atrazine from apples, grapes, and tea would exhibit an acceptably low health risk on consumers. However, the final residues of atrazine in soil samples were <0.01-9.2 mg/kg, and the half-lives were 2.0-9.1 days. Based on the species sensitivity distribution (SSD) model, the potential affected fraction (PAF) of atrazine in soil samples ranges from 0.01 to 65.8%. Atrazine residues in 43.1% soil samples were higher than 0.11 mg/kg, which was the hazardous concentration for 5% of species (HC5) of atrazine in soil. These results suggested that the ecological risks of atrazine in apples, grapes, and tea garden soil would exhibit a high risk on environmental species even under the same GAP conditions. This study could provide guidance for comprehensive risk assessment of atrazine properly used in apple, grape, and tea gardens.
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