The occurrence of selected endocrine‐disrupting chemicals in water and sediments from an urban lagoon in Southern Italy

Russo, Giacomo; Laneri, Sonia; Di Lorenzo, Ritamaria; Ferrara, Luciano; Grumetto, Lucia

Abstract

Endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs) are agents able to exert perturbation toward the endocrine system via a broad array of signalling pathways. Some EDCs are released into the environment as a result of antropogenic activities. Analytical surveillance plays a critical role in investigating the prevalence of such chemicals in environmental samples. A study was carried out in a lagoon in Southern Italy, a water basin relates to the sea through a mouth channel, making this water body a "dynamic environment". The screening of fourteen EDCs in surface waters and sediments, includes a fast and cost‐effective sample preparation, based on a solid‐liquid (sediments) and liquid‐liquid (surface waters) extraction and a chromatographic analysis by liquid chromatography tandem UV and fluorescence detection. Only four chemicals out the fourteen investigated EDCs were detected in both matrices with a frequency higher than 60%. The average concentrations of the single EDC were higher in sediments (730 ‐ 155.000 ng Kg‐1 dw) than in surface waters (132 – 28.000 ng L‐1). Limited to the assayed EDCs, the ecosystem has a low risk regarding to the conservation of biodiversity of the animal species living thereby, since the total estrogenic activity does not exceed 1 ng L− 1.

Citation

Russo, G., Laneri, S., Di Lorenzo, R., Ferrara, L., & Grumetto, L. (2021). The occurrence of selected endocrine‐disrupting chemicals in water and sediments from an urban lagoon in Southern Italy. Water Environment Research, 93(10), 1944-1958. https://doi.org/10.1002/wer.1566

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: Mar 18, 2021
• Online Publication Date: Apr 1, 2021
• Publication Date: 2021-10
• Deposit Date: Apr 2, 2021
• Publicly Available Date: Apr 2, 2022
• Journal: Water Environment Research
• Electronic ISSN: 1554-7531
• Publisher: Wiley
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 93
• Issue: 10
• Pages: 1944-1958
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/wer.1566
• Public URL: http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/2758712