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Dong L, Zhang L, Peng Z, Guo J, Zhang X, Zhou L, Zheng L, Liu J, Huang Y. Monitoring and ecological risk assessment of contaminants in freshwater bodies by bioindicators in China: a proposed framework. ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND POLLUTION RESEARCH INTERNATIONAL 2022; 29:82098-82109. [PMID: 35750902 DOI: 10.1007/s11356-022-21223-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/14/2021] [Accepted: 05/27/2022] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
Abstract
Bioindicators can provide pollution information with longer temporal duration and larger spatial scale. It is an ideal strategy for long-term monitoring of bioaccumulative contaminants. Bioindicator monitoring has been widely used; however, there were seldom detailed studies about bioindicator methodology in literature. The present study proposed a bioindicator framework suitable for the local conditions of China, including selection of bioindicator species, evaluation of impact factors, and derivation of threshold values using per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFASs) as an example. The criteria that proper bioindicator species should meet and the procedure how the bioindicator species is selected were proposed, under which crucian carp (Carassius auratus) was selected as the local bioindicator for studied PFASs. Several factors which may affect accumulation of contaminants in bioindicators were suggested to produce reliable and comparable results. Derivation method of bioindicator thresholds for ecological risk assessment of aquatic ecosystems was firstly developed. The long-term and short-term ecological thresholds of perfluorooctanesulfonate using crucian carp as bioindicator are 3.329 and 1.402 μg/g wet weight respectively. Using the long-term thresholds derived from chronic toxicity data and the accumulative concentrations of contaminants obtained by bioindicator results, the bioindicator monitoring can be used for long-term ecological risk surveillance. The threshold derivation method can extend the application of bioindicator monitoring from the occurrence study to ecological risk surveillance, which is especially important for China who has made progresses on regular contaminant control and starts to be concerned about the ecological risks of the emerging contaminants. The framework can be used to create national and regional long-term freshwater bioindicator monitoring programs, with the purposes of ecological risk assessment, occurrence and temporal trend study, pollution source identification, international convention fulfillment, retrospective study, etc. The bioindicator framework will benefit the aquatic environmental safety and the hazardous chemical management in China.
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- Liang Dong
- National Research Center for Environmental Analysis and Measurement, Beijing, 100029, People's Republic of China
- Environmental Development Center of the Ministry of Ecology and Environment, Beijing, 100029, People's Republic of China
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- National Research Center for Environmental Analysis and Measurement, Beijing, 100029, People's Republic of China
- Environmental Development Center of the Ministry of Ecology and Environment, Beijing, 100029, People's Republic of China
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- Foreign Economic Cooperation Office, Ministry of Ecology and Environment, Beijing, 100035, People's Republic of China
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- National Research Center for Environmental Analysis and Measurement, Beijing, 100029, People's Republic of China
- Environmental Development Center of the Ministry of Ecology and Environment, Beijing, 100029, People's Republic of China
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- National Research Center for Environmental Analysis and Measurement, Beijing, 100029, People's Republic of China
- Environmental Development Center of the Ministry of Ecology and Environment, Beijing, 100029, People's Republic of China
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- National Research Center for Environmental Analysis and Measurement, Beijing, 100029, People's Republic of China
- Environmental Development Center of the Ministry of Ecology and Environment, Beijing, 100029, People's Republic of China
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- National Research Center for Environmental Analysis and Measurement, Beijing, 100029, People's Republic of China
- Environmental Development Center of the Ministry of Ecology and Environment, Beijing, 100029, People's Republic of China
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- National Research Center for Environmental Analysis and Measurement, Beijing, 100029, People's Republic of China.
- Environmental Development Center of the Ministry of Ecology and Environment, Beijing, 100029, People's Republic of China.
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- National Research Center for Environmental Analysis and Measurement, Beijing, 100029, People's Republic of China
- Environmental Development Center of the Ministry of Ecology and Environment, Beijing, 100029, People's Republic of China
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Zuykov M, Fowler SW, Archambault P, Spiers G, Schindler M. Practical advice on monitoring of U and Pu with marine bivalve mollusks near the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant. MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN 2020; 151:110860. [PMID: 32056642 DOI: 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2019.110860] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/29/2019] [Accepted: 12/23/2019] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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Following the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant accident in 2011, some marine radionuclide monitoring studies report a lack of evidence for contamination of Japanese coastal waters by U and Pu, or state that marine contamination by them was negligible. Nevertheless, Fukushima-derived U and Pu were reported as associated with Cs-rich microparticles (CsMPs) found in local soil, vegetation, and river/lake sediments. Over time, CsMPs can be transported to the sea via riverine runoff where actinides, as expected, will leach. We recommend establishing a long-term monitoring of U and Pu in the nearshore area of the Fukushima Prefecture using marine bivalve mollusks; shells, byssal threads and soft tissues should all be analyzed. Here, based on results from Th biosorption experiments, we propose that U and Pu could be present at concentrations several times higher in shells with a completely destroyed external shell layer (periostracum) than in shells with intact periostracum.
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- Michael Zuykov
- School of the Environment, Laurentian University, Sudbury, ON P3E 2C6, Canada.
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- School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY 11794-5000, USA
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- School of the Environment, Laurentian University, Sudbury, ON P3E 2C6, Canada
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- Department of Geological Sciences, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB R3T 2N2, Canada
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Bocato MZ, Bianchi Ximenez JP, Hoffmann C, Barbosa F. An overview of the current progress, challenges, and prospects of human biomonitoring and exposome studies. JOURNAL OF TOXICOLOGY AND ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH. PART B, CRITICAL REVIEWS 2019; 22:131-156. [PMID: 31543064 DOI: 10.1080/10937404.2019.1661588] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/24/2023]
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Human Biomonitoring (HB), the process for determining whether and to what extent chemical substances penetrated our bodies, serves as a useful tool to quantify human exposure to pollutants. In cases of nutrition and physiologic status, HB plays a critical role in the identification of excess or deficiency of essential nutrients. In pollutant HB studies, levels of substances measured in body fluids (blood, urine, and breast milk) or tissues (hair, nails or teeth) aid in the identification of potential health risks or associated adverse effects. However, even as a widespread practice in several countries, most HB studies reflect exposure to a single compound or mixtures which are measured at a single time point in lifecycle. On the other hand, throughout an individual's lifespan, the contact with different physical, chemical, and social stressors occurs at varying intensities, differing times and durations. Further, the interaction between stressors and body receptors leads to dynamic responses of the entire biological system including proteome, metabolome, transcriptome, and adductome. Bearing this in mind, a relatively new vision in exposure science, defined as the exposome, is postulated to expand the traditional practice of measuring a single exposure to one or few chemicals at one-time point to an approach that addresses measures of exposure to multiple stressors throughout the lifespan. With the exposome concept, the science of exposure advances to an Environment-Wide Association Perspective, which might exhibit a stronger relationship with good health or disease conditions for an individual (phenotype). Thus, this critical review focused on the current progress of HB and exposome investigations, anticipating some challenges, strategies, and future needs to be taken into account for designing future surveys.
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- Mariana Zuccherato Bocato
- Laboratório de Toxicologia Analítica e de Sistemas, Faculdade de Ciências Farmacêuticas de Ribeirão Preto, Universidade de São Paulo , Ribeirão Preto , Brazil
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- Laboratório de Toxicologia Analítica e de Sistemas, Faculdade de Ciências Farmacêuticas de Ribeirão Preto, Universidade de São Paulo , Ribeirão Preto , Brazil
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- Departmento de Alimentos e Nutrição Experimental Faculdade de Ciências Farmacêuticas, Universidade de São Paulo , São Paulo , Brazil
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- Laboratório de Toxicologia Analítica e de Sistemas, Faculdade de Ciências Farmacêuticas de Ribeirão Preto, Universidade de São Paulo , Ribeirão Preto , Brazil
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Fry B, Carter JF, Tinggi U, Arman A, Kamal M, Metian M, Waduge VA, Yaccup RB. Prawn biomonitors of nutrient and trace metal pollution along Asia-Pacific coastlines. ISOTOPES IN ENVIRONMENTAL AND HEALTH STUDIES 2016; 52:619-632. [PMID: 26982881 DOI: 10.1080/10256016.2016.1149481] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/18/2015] [Accepted: 12/19/2015] [Indexed: 06/05/2023]
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To assess coastal ecosystem status and pollution baselines, prawns were collected from the commercial catches of eight Asia-Pacific countries (Australia, Bangladesh, Indonesia, Myanmar, Philippines, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Thailand). Samples collected from 21 sites along regional coastlines were analysed for trace metal and stable isotopic compositions of H, C, N, O and S. A combination of simple averaging and multivariate analyses was used to evaluate the data. Sites could be assigned to easily recognise polluted and unpolluted groups based on the prawn results. Some filter-feeding clams were also collected and analysed together with the benthic-feeding prawns, and the prawns generally had lower trace metal burdens. Climate change effects were not strongly evident at this time, but altered ocean circulation and watershed run-off patterns accompanying future climate change are expected to change chemical patterns recorded by prawns along these and other coastlines. Stable isotopes, especially (15)N, can help to distinguish between relatively polluted and unpolluted sites.
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- Brian Fry
- a Australian Rivers Institute, Griffith University , Nathan , QLD , Australia
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- b Queensland Health Forensic and Scientific Services , Archerfield , QLD , Australia
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- b Queensland Health Forensic and Scientific Services , Archerfield , QLD , Australia
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- c Center for Isotopes and Radiation Application, National Nuclear Energy Agency , Jakarta , Indonesia
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- d Bangladesh Atomic Energy Commission (BAEC), Atomic Energy Centre , Chittagong , Bangladesh
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- e International Atomic Energy Agency, IAEA Environment Laboratories, Monaco, Principality of Monaco , Kajang , Selangor , Malaysia
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- g Malaysian Nuclear Agency, Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation Komplek Nuclear Malaysia Bangi , Kajang Selangor , Malaysia
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Karube Z, Inuzuka Y, Tanaka A, Kurishima K, Kihou N, Shibata Y. Radiostrontium monitoring of bivalves from the Pacific coast of eastern Japan. ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND POLLUTION RESEARCH INTERNATIONAL 2016; 23:17095-17104. [PMID: 27211094 DOI: 10.1007/s11356-016-6878-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/15/2016] [Accepted: 05/10/2016] [Indexed: 06/05/2023]
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In early April 2011, radiostrontium was accidentally released from the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant to the Pacific coast of eastern Japan. We developed a simple procedure to analyze radiostrontium levels in marine mussels (Septifer virgatus) and seawater using crown ether (Sr Resin; Eichrom). Then, we used our method to describe the spatial and temporal distribution of radiostrontium in mussels and seawater on the Pacific coast of eastern Japan from 2011 to 2013 and for 2015. Activity of (90)Sr in mussels and seawater decreased with distance from the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant and between 2011 and 2013 tended to be higher in areas south of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant than to the north of it. Activity in mussels and seawater also tended to decrease from 2011 to 2013 and by 2015 had reached levels experienced prior to the Fukushima accident. Our results suggest that radiostrontium discharged from the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant was dispersed by coastal currents in a southerly direction along the Pacific coast of eastern Japan from 2011 to 2013, following which its activity decreased to background levels by 2015.
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- Zin'ichi Karube
- National Institute for Environmental Studies, 16-2 Onogawa, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, 305-8506, Japan.
- Present Address: Center for Water Environment Studies, Ibaraki University, 1375 Ohu, Itako, Ibaraki, 311-2402, Japan.
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- National Institute for Environmental Studies, 16-2 Onogawa, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, 305-8506, Japan
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- National Institute for Environmental Studies, 16-2 Onogawa, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, 305-8506, Japan
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- Tsukuba Branch, WDB Co. Ltd., 1-6-1 Takezono, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, 305-0032, Japan
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- Institute for Agro-Environmental Sciences, NARO, 3-1-3 Kannondai, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, 305-8604, Japan
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- National Institute for Environmental Studies, 16-2 Onogawa, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, 305-8506, Japan
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Yanagawa A. Seawater influence monitored by NaCl on the growth of Trametes versicolor. ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND POLLUTION RESEARCH INTERNATIONAL 2016; 23:932-937. [PMID: 26538261 DOI: 10.1007/s11356-015-5719-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/09/2015] [Accepted: 10/29/2015] [Indexed: 06/05/2023]
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There are only a few scientific data about the function of ecosystems after tsunami disasters. The ecosystems help the environment to recover after a disaster, and therefore, the research on its function is important. We estimated the seawater influences on wood degradation after a tsunami disaster by the growth of Trametes versicolor. The debris from the Great East Japan Earthquake on the pacific coast in March 2011 was used for the simulations. Its growth on debris was compared with those on seawater-treated woods, and the amount of sodium chloride was examined to know the approximate amount of salts in the samples. Sodium chloride contents were employed as an indicative parameter of sea salts, which contained many elements. As a result, this common white-rot fungus degraded wood debris in the same way as sound sapwood. Although the study was conducted at the laboratory level, this is the first report from the real debris, which assessed the fungal decomposition ability of the ecosystem after a tsunami disaster.
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- Aya Yanagawa
- Research Institute for Sustainable Humanosphere, Kyoto University, Uji, 611-0011, Japan.
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