Phthalates (PAEs) in drinking water sources such as the Yangtze River in developing countries had aroused widespread concern. Here, the water, suspended particulate matter (SPM), and sediment samples were collected from 15 sites in wet and dry seasons in Zhenjiang, for the determination of six PAEs (DMP, DEP, DIBP, DBP, DEHP, and DOP) using the solid-phase extraction (SPE) or ultrasonic extraction coupled with gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS). The total concentrations of six PAEs (Σ6PAEs) spanned a range of 2.65–39.31 μg L?1 in water, 1.97–34.10 μg g?1 in SPM, and 0.93–34.70 μg g?1 in sediment. The partition coefficients (Kd1) of PAEs in water and SPM phase ranged from 0.004 to 3.36 L g?1 in the wet season and from 0.12 to 2.84 L g?1 in the dry season. Kd2 of PAEs in water and sediment phase was 0.001–9.75 L g?1 in the wet season and 0.006–8.05 L g?1 in the dry season. The dominant PAEs were DIBP, DBP, and DEHP in water and SPM, DIBP, DEHP, and DOP in sediment. The concentration of DBP in water exceeded the China Surface Water Standard. The discharge of domestic sewage and industrial wastewater might be the main potential sources of PAEs. The risk quotient (RQ) method used for the risk assessment revealed that DBP (0.01 < RQ < 1) posed a medium risk, while DIBP and DEHP (RQ > 1) posed a high environmental risk in water, DIBP (RQ > 1) also showed a high risk in sediment.
Background, aim, and scope Endosulfan, an organochlorine pesticide (OCP), is genotoxic in mammalian cells and generally considered to be toxic and classified
by the World Health Organization and the US Environmental Protection Agency as priority pollutants and a nominator for inclusion
in a future iteration of the persistent organic pollutants treaty. Endosulfan is a currently used pesticide and still being
used worldwide. The general trend of total global endosulfan use has increased continuously since the first year when this
pesticide was applied. It is critical to create national endosulfan usage/emission inventories for China to carry out source–receptor
relation analysis, risk assessment, and other research related to endosulfan in this country. Chinese inventories have been
published for some OCPs, such as technical HCH and lindane, DDT, and chlordane; for endosulfan, however, there has not been
any usage inventory available on any scales (national or provincial), although endosulfan has been widely used since 1994
in this country. This is the first part of the work. The goal of this paper is to quantify the historical production and usage
of endosulfan in China and to compile gridded historical usage inventories of endosulfan for this country. Based on these
usage inventories, emission and residue inventories will be created, which is the goal of the second part of the work.
Materials and methods Due to the lack of national production and usage information of endosulfan in China, a method to estimate the use of endosulfan
was developed. First, information of crops on which endosulfan is applied and average endosulfan use and annual application
frequencies of endosulfan on these crops were collected. Secondly, usage of endosulfan on each crop was estimated using the
national cropland area for each province from Chinese government reports. Finally, with the help of GIS (geographic information
system), the usage data of this insecticide was allocated to a grid system, with a 1/4° longitude by 1/6° latitude resolution,
with a size for each grid cell of approximately 25 km by 25 km.
Results and discussion The use of endosulfan in agriculture in China started on cotton in 1994, and on wheat, tea, tobacco, apples, and other fruits
in 1998. Endosulfan usage on cotton, wheat, tea, tobacco, and apples in China has been estimated to be approximately 25,700 t
between 1994 and 2004. The province with the highest usage of endosulfan is Henan Province, with a total usage reaching 4,000 t,
followed by the uses in Xinjiang Autonomous Region (3,200 t), Shandong Province (3,000 t), Hebei Province (2,100 t), and Anhui
Province (1,900 t). Gridded usage inventories of endosulfan at a 1/4° longitude by 1/6° latitude resolution have been created,
which indicate that the intensive endosulfan use was in the south of Hebei Province, west of Shandong Province, east of Henan
Province, north of Anhui Province, east of Jiangsu Province, and some areas in Yunnan Province and Xinjiang Autonomous Region.
General agreement has been found between the usage data from our estimation and the small amount of usage data published in
China.
Conclusions This is the first national gridded endosulfan usage inventory produced for China. The annual applications of endosulfan from
1994 to 2004 in China were estimated based on the total areas of major crops, on which endosulfan was applied, and spatial
distribution of the application was generated at provincial and prefecture levels. With the help of GIS, endosulfan usage
based on prefecture was transferred to a 1/4° longitude by 1/6° latitude gridding system. The satisfaction of the inventories
was supported by the consistence between the estimation of the annual usage and the reported annual production of endosulfan.
Recommendations and perspectives This gridded endosulfan usage inventory created in this study will be improved upon availability of new information of endosulfan.
The usage inventories can be used to create gridded emission and residue inventories for this insecticide. It is believed
that this work will pave the way for further endosulfan studies in China and beyond. 相似文献