Wide-scope screening for pharmaceutically active substances in a leafy vegetable cultivated under biogas slurry irrigation

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The use of livestock waste for the production of biogas and the application of biogas slurry to agricultural soil can resolve livestock waste problems and reduce synthetic fertiliser use. However, the migration of veterinary drugs to land and crops resulting from biogas slurry irrigation is a potential food safety concern. This study employed an ultra-performance liquid chromatography coupled with quadrupole-time of flight high-resolution mass spectrometry system for wide-scope suspect screening of pharmaceutically active substances on crop cultivated under biogas slurry irrigation. Briefly, a total of 22 pak choi samples were obtained from a greenhouse farmed in tropical south Taiwan between March 2019 and March 2020. Molecular spectra and fragmented ions (between m/z 70 and 1100) were acquired. Ion features were searched and matched with a library consisting of 1068 compounds. The matrixes in the crop production environment including soil, livestock wastewater, biogas slurry, and groundwater were included in this study to elucidate potential sources of the pharmaceutically active substances. Results demonstrated 23 suspects were matched with high mass accuracy (mass error within ±5.0 ppm) in pak choi. The detection of both bufexamac and nandrolone were confirmed using standards, where a new system of identification points was applied. Nandrolone was detected throughout the pak choi samples as well as livestock wastewater. Tetracycline, macrolide, and sulfonamide antibiotics were presented in biogas slurry and soil but not pak choi. This is the first study to reveal the presence of multiclass pharmaceutically active substances in a crop supplied as food. Such findings suggest that anabolics and antibiotics should be closely monitored in the corps irrigated by biogas slurry in future.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2021

Erschienen:

2021

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:750

Enthalten in:

The Science of the total environment - 750(2021) vom: 01. Jan., Seite 141519

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Chen, Wen-Ling [VerfasserIn]
Lin, Sheng-Chi [VerfasserIn]
Huang, Chih-Hsuan [VerfasserIn]
Peng, Shao-Yu [VerfasserIn]
Ling, Yee Soon [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Biofuels
Biogas slurry
Fertilizers
High-resolution mass spectrometry
Journal Article
Soil
Suspect screening
Vegetables
Veterinary drugs

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Date Completed 11.11.2020

Date Revised 11.11.2020

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.141519

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM314342206