Journal
ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Volume 55, Issue 15, Pages 10343-10353Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.1c00466
Keywords
nontarget screening; high-resolution mass spectrometry (HRMS); accurate mass; metabolites; TIMFIE; prioritization strategy
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- Swedish Research Council for Sustainable Development (FORMAS) [2016-01173]
- Formas [2016-01173] Funding Source: Formas
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This study developed a novel suspect screening approach to explore the presence of pesticides and their transformation products in the environment, successfully confirming multiple pesticide TPs. Integration of national monitoring data increased the number of prioritized compounds, and the presence of some TPs highlighted concerns related to environmental impacts.
Pesticides are widespread anthropogenic chemicals and well-known environmental contaminants of concern. Much less is known about transformation products (TPs) of pesticides and their presence in the environment. We developed a novel suspect screening approach for not well-explored pesticides (n = 16) and pesticide TPs (n = 242) by integrating knowledge from national monitoring with high-resolution mass spectrometry data. Weekly time-integrated samples were collected in two Swedish agricultural streams using the novel Time-Integrating, MicroFlow, In-line Extraction (TIMFIE) sampler. The integration of national monitoring data in the screening approach increased the number of prioritized compounds approximately twofold (from 23 to 42). Ultimately, 11 pesticide TPs were confirmed by reference standards and 12 TPs were considered tentatively identified with varying levels of confidence. Semiquantification of the newly confirmed TPs indicated higher concentrations than their corresponding parent pesticides in some cases, which highlights concerns related to (unknown) pesticide TPs in the environment. Some TPs were present in the environment without co-occurrence of their corresponding parent compounds, indicating higher persistency or mobility of the identified TPs. This study showcased the benefits of integrating monitoring knowledge in this type of studies, with advantages for suspect screening performance and the possibility to increase relevance of future monitoring programs.
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