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Predicting the Accumulation of Ionizable Pharmaceuticals and Personal Care Products in Aquatic and Terrestrial Organisms

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WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/etc.5451

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Bioconcentration; environmental modeling; pharmaceuticals

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  1. UK Research and Innovation Future Leaders Fellowship [MR/S032126/1]
  2. Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program [W912HQ19C0050, ER19-1350]

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The extent of bioaccumulation of chemicals in aquatic and terrestrial organisms is crucial for protecting public health and the environment. Existing mathematical models can describe the accumulation of neutral organic chemicals and weak acids/bases, but lack mechanistic insights for ionizable pharmaceuticals and personal care products (PPCPs). Targeted experiments are needed to address partitioning and sorption behaviors, membrane permeability, influence of salts and complexes, biotransformation, and modeling gaps and risk profiles of ionizable PPCPs.
The extent to which chemicals bioaccumulate in aquatic and terrestrial organisms represents a fundamental consideration for chemicals management efforts intended to protect public health and the environment from pollution and waste. Many chemicals, including most pharmaceuticals and personal care products (PPCPs), are ionizable across environmentally relevant pH gradients, which can affect their fate in aquatic and terrestrial systems. Existing mathematical models describe the accumulation of neutral organic chemicals and weak acids and bases in both fish and plants. Further model development is hampered, however, by a lack of mechanistic insights for PPCPs that are predominantly or permanently ionized. Targeted experiments across environmentally realistic conditions are needed to address the following questions: (1) What are the partitioning and sorption behaviors of strongly ionizing chemicals among species? (2) How does membrane permeability of ions influence bioaccumulation of PPCPs? (3) To what extent are salts and associated complexes with PPCPs influencing bioaccumulation? (4) How do biotransformation and other elimination processes vary within and among species? (5) Are bioaccumulation modeling efforts currently focused on chemicals and species with key data gaps and risk profiles? Answering these questions promises to address key sources of uncertainty for bioaccumulation modeling of ionizable PPCPs and related contaminants. Environ Toxicol Chem 2022;00:1-11. (c) 2022 The Authors. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry published by Wiley Periodicals LLC on behalf of SETAC.

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