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Article Dans Une Revue Environmental Science and Pollution Research Année : 2014

A national reconnaissance for selected organic micropollutants in sediments on French territory

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To collect a large data set regarding the occurrence of organic substances in sediment, this study presents the examination of 20 micropollutants, as a national survey. The list of target compounds contains two alkylphenols, three polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) not commonly included in monitoring programmes, six pesticides or metabolites, five pharmaceutical compounds, two hormones, one UV filter and bisphenol A. The selective and sensitive analytical methods, based on quick, easy, cheap, effective, rugged, and safe (QuEChERS) sample preparation followed by liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS) or gas chromatography-time-of-flight mass spectrometry (GC-ToF-MS), allow the quantification at limits comprised between 0.5 and 23 ng/g, depending on the compound. The paper summarizes the analytical results from 154 sampling points. Of the 20 target compounds, 9 were determined at least once, and the sediments contained a maximum of 7 substances. The most frequently detected were PAHs (frequency, 77 %; max., 1,400 ng/g). The pharmaceutical compounds, hormones and pesticides were rarely detected in the samples; the most frequently detected was carbamazepine (frequency, 6 %; max., 31 ng/g). In some cases, the levels of PAHs and bisphenol A exceed the predicted no-effect concentration (PNEC) values.
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hal-01230435 , version 1 (18-11-2015)

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Emmanuelle Vulliet, Alexandra Berlioz-Barbier, Florent Lafay, Robert Baudot, Laure Wiest, et al.. A national reconnaissance for selected organic micropollutants in sediments on French territory. Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2014, 21, 19, pp.11370-11379. ⟨10.1007/s11356-014-3089-z⟩. ⟨hal-01230435⟩
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