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- Arrhenius, Åsa, 1973, et al.
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Toxicity of the fungicide ketoconazole to freshwater microalgal communities
- 2015
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In: SETAC Europe 25th Annual Meeting, Barcelona Spain.
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Conference paper (other academic/artistic)abstract
- Antimycotic pharmaceuticals are widely used for treating fungal infections in humans and animals. They enter the aquatic environment either after passage through the body, or after being rinsed off if they are topically applied. However, substantial knowledge gaps currently hamper a proper environmental risk assessment of the individual antimycotics and their mixtures for marine and freshwater environments. Clotrimazole, a marine priority pollutant, affected sterol composition of marine microalgal communities already at 50 pmol/L which indicates effects already at environmental concentrations. In the present study we focus on ketoconazole (also an azole fungicide) and toxicity to freshwater microalgal communities. A concentration response curve was first established using pigment profiles (HPLC) as endpoint which resulted in an EC50 of around 1 micromol/L. During autumn 2014 we repeated the study but focused on the lower concentration range from 0.0001 to 1 micromol/L. Results on chlorophyll a show similar patterns as in the initial study. The experiments were finished during autumn 2014 and are currently under final evaluation and sterol analysis, species determinations and analytical confirmation of exposure concentrations are currently evaluated. The work is performed within the Swedish Formas-funded project “Aquatic Environmental Risk Assessment of Antimycotics”.
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- Wernersson, Ann-Sofie, 1969, et al.
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The European technical report on aquatic effect-based monitoring tools under the water framework directive
- 2015
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In: Environmental Sciences Europe. - : Springer Science and Business Media LLC. - 2190-4715 .- 2190-4707. ; 27:11 March 2015
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- The Water Framework Directive (WFD), 2000/60/EC, requires an integrated approach to the monitoring and assessment of the quality of surface water bodies. The chemical status assessment is based on compliance with legally binding Environmental Quality Standards (EQSs) for selected chemical pollutants (priority substances) of EU-wide concern. In the context of the mandate for the period 2010 to 2012 of the subgroup Chemical Monitoring and Emerging Pollutants (CMEP) under the Common Implementation Strategy (CIS) for the WFD, a specific task was established for the elaboration of a technical report on aquatic effect-based monitoring tools. The activity was chaired by Sweden and co-chaired by Italy and progressively involved several Member States and stakeholders in an EU-wide drafting group. The main aim of this technical report was to identify potential effect-based tools (e.g. biomarkers and bioassays) that could be used in the context of the different monitoring programmes (surveillance, operational and investigative) linking chemical and ecological status assessment. The present paper summarizes the major technical contents and findings of the report.
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