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Lou H, Wang F, Zhao H, Wang S, Xiao X, Yang Y, Wang X. Development and validation of an improved QuEChERS method for the extraction of semi-volatile organic compounds (SVOCs) from complex soils. ANALYTICAL METHODS : ADVANCING METHODS AND APPLICATIONS 2023; 15:4767-4776. [PMID: 37697917 DOI: 10.1039/d3ay01326j] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 09/13/2023]
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In order to achieve rapid, sensitive, and high-throughput determination of typical semi-volatile organic compounds (SVOCs) in soil samples, a method for the rapid determination of 63 SVOCs in soil was developed by optimizing and improving the QuEChERS (Quick, Easy, Cheap, Effective, Rugged, and Safe) extraction technique in conjunction with gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS) analysis. A small amount of soil sample (5.0 g) was vortexed with 10 mL of a mixture of acetone and n-hexane (V/V = 1 : 1) for 2 min, followed by rapid vortex purification and centrifugation using a mixture of copper powder and octadecylsilane (C18) dispersant. The resulting supernatant was then purified through a 0.22 μm filter membrane. The results showed that the 63 SVOCs exhibited good linear relationships within the concentration range of 100-5000 μg L-1, with correlation coefficients (R2) above 0.99. The method detection limit (MDL = 3.3 Sy/m) was lower than 0.050 mg kg-1. At a spike concentration of 1 mg kg-1, the recovery rates of the 63 SVOCs were almost above 70% (n = 7). Compared with the rapid solvent extraction (ASE) method specified in US EPA 3545 standard, this method reduced the organic solvent usage by 14 times and significantly shortened the operation time. Furthermore, this method did not involve any transfer or concentration steps of the extractant during the experimental process, reducing the exposure time of toxic compounds and providing support for the principles of green analytical chemistry. Moreover, in the detection of most compounds in the same batch of contaminated soil, the extraction results obtained by QuEChERS were superior to those obtained by the ASE method, providing evidence for the practical application of this method. This method is rapid, simple, accurate, requires a small sample volume, and causes minimal environmental pollution. It provides a high-throughput detection method for the rapid screening of SVOCs in soil.
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- Hongbo Lou
- Environmental Testing and Experiment Center, Chinese Research Academy of Environmental Sciences, Beijing 100012, China.
- School of River and Ocean Engineering, Chongqing Jiaotong University, Chongqing 400074, China
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- Environmental Testing and Experiment Center, Chinese Research Academy of Environmental Sciences, Beijing 100012, China.
- School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Qilu University of Technology, Jinan 250353, China
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- Environmental Testing and Experiment Center, Chinese Research Academy of Environmental Sciences, Beijing 100012, China.
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- Environmental Testing and Experiment Center, Chinese Research Academy of Environmental Sciences, Beijing 100012, China.
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- Environmental Testing and Experiment Center, Chinese Research Academy of Environmental Sciences, Beijing 100012, China.
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- School of River and Ocean Engineering, Chongqing Jiaotong University, Chongqing 400074, China
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- Environmental Testing and Experiment Center, Chinese Research Academy of Environmental Sciences, Beijing 100012, China.
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Zhang S, Zhao W, Yang C, Li Y, Liu M, Meng XZ, Cai M. Assessment of currently used organochlorine pesticides in surface water and sediments in Xiangjiang river, a drinking water source in China: Occurrence and distribution characteristics under flood events. ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION (BARKING, ESSEX : 1987) 2022; 304:119133. [PMID: 35334348 DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2022.119133] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/28/2021] [Revised: 03/07/2022] [Accepted: 03/09/2022] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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Xiangjiang (XJ) is a typical urban inland river that serves as a drinking water source, which may be affected by the currently used organochlorine pesticides (CUOCPs) originating from agricultural activities in the vicinity. On this basis, this study comprehensively explored the occurrence and distribution characteristics of CUOCPs in surface water and sediments under long-term precipitation and subsequent floods. Considering the low concentration of CUOCPs in water, a technique combining high-throughput organic analysis with high-volume solid phase extraction (High-throat/Hi-volume SPE) was introduced for effective analysis of CUCOPs. The results showed that the concentration of CUOCPs in the water and sediments of XJ ranged from 2.33 to 6.40 ng L-1 (average of 3.93 ± 1.15 ng L-1) and from 1.52 to 21.2 ng g-1 (average of 6.60 ± 4.31 ng g-1 dw), respectively. The distribution of CUOCPs in water was consistent throughout XJ, but that in sediments was not uniform, indicating a stronger impact of floods on water than on sediments. Water-sediment partition coefficients were generally >2 L g-1, showing a tendency of CUOCP dominance in sediments. The results of principal component analysis and cluster analysis showed that the occurrence of CUOCPs is significantly affected by exogenous disturbance, which could be flood events; meanwhile, clusters of CUOCPs were found in both water and sediments in the source-limited middle reaches in urban areas. Redundancy analysis (RDA) showed that CUOCP occurrences were not positively correlated with nutrient elements (nitrogen and phosphorus), but related to pH and dissolved oxygen (DO), indicating complex sources.
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- Shengwei Zhang
- State Key Laboratory of Water Environment Simulation, School of Environment, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, 100875, China; Ministry of Natural Resources Key Laboratory for Polar Science, Polar Research Institute of China, Shanghai, 200136, China
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- School of Chemistry and Food Engineering, Changsha University of Science & Technology, Changsha, 410114, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Pollution Control and Resources Reuse, College of Environmental Science and Engineering, Tongji University, Shanghai, 200092, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Water Environment Simulation, School of Environment, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, 100875, China
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- School of Chemistry and Food Engineering, Changsha University of Science & Technology, Changsha, 410114, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Pollution Control and Resources Reuse, College of Environmental Science and Engineering, Tongji University, Shanghai, 200092, China
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- Ministry of Natural Resources Key Laboratory for Polar Science, Polar Research Institute of China, Shanghai, 200136, China; Antarctic Great Wall Ecology National Observation and Research Station, Polar Research Institute of China, 1000 Xuelong Road, Shanghai, 201209, China; School of Oceanography, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 1954 Huashan Road, Shanghai, 200030, China.
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Sereshti H, Seraj M, Soltani S, Rashidi Nodeh H, Hossein Shojaee AliAbadi M, Taghizadeh M. Development of a sustainable dispersive liquid–liquid microextraction based on novel hydrophobic and hydrophilic natural deep eutectic solvents for the analysis of multiclass pesticides in water. Microchem J 2022. [DOI: 10.1016/j.microc.2022.107226] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Teymori Z, Sadeghi M, Fattahi N. Counter Current Salting-out Homogenous Liquid-liquid Extraction and Dispersion Liquid-liquid Microextraction Based on the Solidification of Floating Organic Drop Followed by High-performance Liquid Chromatography for the Isolation and Preconcentration of Pesticides from Fruit Samples. J AOAC Int 2021; 105:802-811. [PMID: 34904642 DOI: 10.1093/jaoacint/qsab161] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/28/2021] [Revised: 11/30/2021] [Accepted: 12/02/2021] [Indexed: 11/13/2022]
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BACKGROUND Pesticides are widely used to control pests and prevent diseases in crops, including cereals, vegetables, and fruits. Due to factors such as the persistence of pesticides, bioaccumulation, and potential toxicity, the pesticide residues monitoring in foodstuffs is very important. OBJECTIVE In the current research, we proposed a novel approach to counter current salting-out homogenous liquid-liquid extraction (CCSHLLE) combined with dispersive liquid-liquid microextraction based on the solidification of floating organic drop (DLLME-SFO) in pesticides from aqueous samples for the isolation and preconcentration, which were evaluated prior to analysis as real samples by high-performance liquid chromatography-ultraviolet detection (HPLC-UV). METHODS In brief, sodium chloride was applied as a separation reagent, which is filled in a small glass column, through which a combination of an aqueous solution (here we could say as juice of fruit) and passing of acetonitrile. In this process, the droplets rose through the column and a separated layer would be formed on what has remained from aqueous phase. Following that, acetonitrile as the organic phase combined with 50.0 µL of extraction solvent. To further enrich the analytes, the mixture was injected into five milliliters of a 4% sodium chloride solution and placed in a tube for the DLLME-SFO. RESULTS Under optimal conditions, the dynamic linear range of 0.5-500 μg/L, extraction recovery of 65-85%, enrichment factors of 108-142, and limit of detection as 0.2-0.4 μg/L were obtained for the organophosphorus pesticides. In addition, the repeatability and reproducibility in the five replicate of the pesticides measurements (100 μg/L) are within the ranges of 3.5-5.1% and 4.5-6.3%, respectively.
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- Research Center for Environmental Determinants of Health (RCEDH), Kermanshah University of Medical Sciences, Kermanshah, Iran
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Sharma P, Pandey V, Sharma MMM, Patra A, Singh B, Mehta S, Husen A. A Review on Biosensors and Nanosensors Application in Agroecosystems. NANOSCALE RESEARCH LETTERS 2021; 16:136. [PMID: 34460019 PMCID: PMC8405745 DOI: 10.1186/s11671-021-03593-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/21/2021] [Accepted: 08/14/2021] [Indexed: 05/19/2023]
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Previous decades have witnessed a lot of challenges that have provoked a dire need of ensuring global food security. The process of augmenting food production has made the agricultural ecosystems to face a lot of challenges like the persistence of residual particles of different pesticides, accretion of heavy metals, and contamination with toxic elemental particles which have negatively influenced the agricultural environment. The entry of such toxic elements into the human body via agricultural products engenders numerous health effects such as nerve and bone marrow disorders, metabolic disorders, infertility, disruption of biological functions at the cellular level, and respiratory and immunological diseases. The exigency for monitoring the agroecosystems can be appreciated by contemplating the reported 220,000 annual deaths due to toxic effects of residual pesticidal particles. The present practices employed for monitoring agroecosystems rely on techniques like gas chromatography, high-performance liquid chromatography, mass spectroscopy, etc. which have multiple constraints, being expensive, tedious with cumbersome protocol, demanding sophisticated appliances along with skilled personnel. The past couple of decades have witnessed a great expansion of the science of nanotechnology and this development has largely facilitated the development of modest, quick, and economically viable bio and nanosensors for detecting different entities contaminating the natural agroecosystems with an advantage of being innocuous to human health. The growth of nanotechnology has offered rapid development of bio and nanosensors for the detection of several composites which range from several metal ions, proteins, pesticides, to the detection of complete microorganisms. Therefore, the present review focuses on different bio and nanosensors employed for monitoring agricultural ecosystems and also trying to highlight the factor affecting their implementation from proof-of-concept to the commercialization stage.
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- Pankaj Sharma
- Department of Microbiology, CCS Haryana Agricultural University, Hisar, Haryana 125004 India
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- National Institute of Plant Genome Research, Aruna Asaf Ali Marg, New Delhi, 110067 India
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- Department of Agriculture and Life Industry, Kangwon National University, Chuncheon, Gangwon-do 24341 Republic of Korea
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- International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, Aruna Asaf Ali Marg, New Delhi, 110067 India
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- National Institute of Plant Genome Research, Aruna Asaf Ali Marg, New Delhi, 110067 India
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- International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, Aruna Asaf Ali Marg, New Delhi, 110067 India
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- Wolaita Sodo University, P.O. Box: 138, Wolaita, Ethiopia
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Bagheri AR, Aramesh N, Bilal M. New frontiers and prospects of metal-organic frameworks for removal, determination, and sensing of pesticides. ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH 2021; 194:110654. [PMID: 33359702 DOI: 10.1016/j.envres.2020.110654] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/11/2020] [Revised: 12/16/2020] [Accepted: 12/18/2020] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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Pesticides have been widely used in agriculture to control, reduce, and kill insects. Humans are also being using pesticides to control insidious animals in daily life. By these practices, a huge volume of pesticides is introduced to the environment. Despite broad-spectrum applicability, pesticides also have hazardous effects on both humans and animals at high and low concentrations. Long-term exposure to pesticides can cause different diseases, like leukemia, lymphoma, and cancers of the brain, breasts, prostate, testis, and ovaries. Reproductive disorders from pesticides include birth defects, stillbirth, spontaneous abortion, sterility, and infertility. Therefore, the application of determination and treatment methods for pre-concentration and removal of these toxic materials from the environment appears a vital concern. To date, different materials and approaches have been employed for these purposes. Among these approaches, multifunctional metal-organic frameworks (MOFs)-assisted adsorption and determination processes have always been in the spotlight. These facts are due to exclusive properties of MOFs in terms of the crystallinity, large surface area, high chemical, and physical stability, and controllable structure as well as unique features of adsorption and determination process in terms of simple, easy, cheap, available method and ability to use in large and industrial scales. In the present work, we illustrate the exceptional features of MOFs as well as the possible mechanism for the adsorption of pesticides by MOFs. The use of these fantastic materials for pre-concentration and removal of pesticides are extensively explored. In addition, the performance of MOFs was compared with other adsorbents. Finally, the new frontiers and prospects of MOFs for the determination, sensing, and removal of pesticides are presented.
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- Chemistry Department, Yasouj University, Yasouj, 75918-74831, Iran
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- School of Life Science and Food Engineering, Huaiyin Institute of Technology, Huaian, 223003, China.
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Zhang M, Mei J, Lv S, Lai J, Zheng X, Yang J, Cui S. Simultaneous extraction of permethrin diastereomers and deltamethrin in environmental water samples based on aperture regulated magnetic mesoporous silica. NEW J CHEM 2020. [DOI: 10.1039/d0nj01634a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
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The aperture of KIT-6 can influence the recoveries of magnetic solid phase extraction.
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- Meixing Zhang
- Jiangsu Collaborative Innovation Center of Biomedical Functional Materials
- Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Biomedical Materials
- College of Chemistry and Materials Science
- Jiangsu Provincial Key Laboratory of Materials Cycling and Pollution Control
- Nanjing Normal University
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- Nanjing Normal University Taizhou College
- Taizhou
- China
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- Jiangsu Collaborative Innovation Center of Biomedical Functional Materials
- Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Biomedical Materials
- College of Chemistry and Materials Science
- Jiangsu Provincial Key Laboratory of Materials Cycling and Pollution Control
- Nanjing Normal University
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- Jiangsu Collaborative Innovation Center of Biomedical Functional Materials
- Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Biomedical Materials
- College of Chemistry and Materials Science
- Jiangsu Provincial Key Laboratory of Materials Cycling and Pollution Control
- Nanjing Normal University
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- Jiangsu Collaborative Innovation Center of Biomedical Functional Materials
- Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Biomedical Materials
- College of Chemistry and Materials Science
- Jiangsu Provincial Key Laboratory of Materials Cycling and Pollution Control
- Nanjing Normal University
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- Jiangsu Collaborative Innovation Center of Biomedical Functional Materials
- Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Biomedical Materials
- College of Chemistry and Materials Science
- Jiangsu Provincial Key Laboratory of Materials Cycling and Pollution Control
- Nanjing Normal University
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- Jiangsu Collaborative Innovation Center of Biomedical Functional Materials
- Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Biomedical Materials
- College of Chemistry and Materials Science
- Jiangsu Provincial Key Laboratory of Materials Cycling and Pollution Control
- Nanjing Normal University
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