Suspect screening of plastic-related chemicals in northern pike (Esox lucius) from the St. Lawrence River, Canada.
Environ Pollut
; 255(Pt 1): 113223, 2019 Dec.
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| ID: mdl-31541811
Environmental contaminant monitoring traditionally relies on targeted analysis, and very few tools are currently available to monitor "unexpected" or "unknown" compounds. In the present study, a non-targeted workflow (suspect screening) was developed to investigate plastic-related chemicals and other environmental contaminants in a top predator freshwater fish species, the northern pike, from the St. Lawrence River, Canada. Samples were extracted using sonication-assisted liquid extraction and analyzed by high performance liquid chromatography coupled with quadrupole time of flight mass spectrometry (HPLC-QTOF-MS). Ten bisphenol compounds were used to test the analytical performances of the method, and satisfactory results were obtained in terms of instrumental linearity (r2â¯>â¯0.97), recoveries, (86.53-119.32%), inter-day precision and method detection limits. The non-targeted workflow data processing parameters were studied, and the peak height filters (peak filtering step) were found to influence significantly the capacity to detect and identify trace chemicals in pike muscle extracts. None of the ten bisphenol analogues were detected in pike extracts suggesting the absence of accumulation for these chemicals in pike muscle. However, the non-targeted workflow enabled the identification of diethyl phthalate (DEP) and perfluorooctanesulfonic acid (PFOS) in pike extracts. This approach thus can be also applied to various contaminants in other biological matrices and environmental samples.
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Base de datos:
MEDLINE
Asunto principal:
Plásticos
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Contaminantes Químicos del Agua
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Esocidae
Tipo de estudio:
Diagnostic_studies
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Screening_studies
Límite:
Animals
País/Región como asunto:
America do norte
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Environ Pollut
Asunto de la revista:
SAUDE AMBIENTAL
Año:
2019
Tipo del documento:
Article
País de afiliación:
Canadá
Pais de publicación:
Reino Unido