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JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY
Volume 34, Issue 3, Pages 861-871Publisher
AMER SOC AGRONOMY
DOI: 10.2134/jeq2004.0331
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Natural and synthetic steroidal hormones can be carried to agricultural soil through fertilization with municipal biosolids, livestock manure, or poultry manure. The persistence and pathways of dissipation of [4-C-14]-testosterone and of [4-C-14]-17 beta-estradiol in organic-amended soils were investigated using laboratory microcosms. Testosterone dissipation was investigated over a range of amendment concentrations, temperatures, and soil types. Under all conditions the parent compound and transformation products were dissipated within a few days. Addition of swine manure slurry to soil hastened the transformation of testosterone and 17 beta-estradiol to the corresponding less hormonally active ketones, 4-androstene-3,17-dione and estrone. Two other testosterone transformation products, 5 alpha-androstan-3,17-dione and 1,4-androstadiene-3,17-dione, were also detected. Experiments with sterilized soil and sterilized swine manure slurry suggested that the transformation of C-14-labeled hormonal parent compounds was mainly caused by microorganisms in manure slurry, while mineralization of the hormones to (CO2)-C-14, required viable soil microorganisms. Organic amendments transiently inhibited the mineralization of [4-C-14]-testosterone, perhaps by inhibiting soil microorganisms, or by enhancing sorption and reducing the bioavailability of testosterone or transformation products. Overall, organic amendments influenced the pathways and kinetics of testosterone and estradiol dissipation, but did not increase their persistence.
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