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Widespread Pesticide Distribution in the European Atmosphere Questions their Degradability in Air
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| Year of publication | 2024 |
| Type | Article in Periodical |
| Magazine / Source | ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY |
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| Citation | MAYER, Ludovic, Thierry, Céline DEGRENDELE, Petr ŠENK, Jiří KOHOUTEK, Petra PŘIBYLOVÁ, Petr KUKUČKA, Lisa Emily MELYMUK, Amandine DURAND, Sylvain RAVIER, Andres ALASTUEY, Alex R. BAKER, Urs BALTENSPERGER, Kathrin BAUMANN-STANZER, Tobias BIERMANN, Pernilla BOHLIN-NIZZETTO, Darius CEBURNIS, Sebastien CONIL, Cedric COURET, Anna DEGORSKA, Evangelia DIAPOULI, Sabine ECKHARDT, Konstantinos ELEFTHERIADIS, Grant L. FORSTER, Korbinian FREIER, Francois GHEUSI, Maria I. GINI, Heidi HELLEN, Stephan HENNE, Hartmut HERRMANN, Adela Holubova SMEJKALOVA, Urmas HORRAK, Christoph HUEGLIN, Heikki JUNNINEN, Adam KRISTENSSON, Laurent LANGRENE, Janne LEVULA, Marie LOTHON, Elke LUDEWIG, Ulla MAKKONEN, Jana MATEJOVICOVA, Nikolaos MIHALOPOULOS, Veronika MINARIKOVA, Wolfgang MOCHE, Steffen M. NOE, Noemi PEREZ, Tuukka PETAJA, Veronique PONT, Laurent POULAIN, Etienne QUIVET, Gabriela RATZ, Till REHM, Stefan REIMANN, Ivan SIMMONS, Jeroen E. SONKE, Mar SORRIBAS, Ronald SPOOR, Daan P. J. SWART, Vasiliki VASILATOU, Henri WORTHAM, Margarita YELA, Pavlos ZARMPAS, Claudia Zellweger FAESI, Kjetil TORSETH, Paolo LAJ, Jana KLÁNOVÁ and Gerhard LAMMEL. Widespread Pesticide Distribution in the European Atmosphere Questions their Degradability in Air. ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY. WASHINGTON: AMER CHEMICAL SOC, 2024, vol. 58, No 7, p. 3342-3352. ISSN 0013-936X. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.3c08488. |
| web | https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.est.3c08488 |
| Doi | http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.3c08488 |
| Keywords | pesticides; atmosphere; transport; degradation; riskassessment |
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| Description | Risk assessment of pesticide impacts on remote ecosystems makes use of model-estimated degradation in air. Recent studies suggest these degradation rates to be overestimated, questioning current pesticide regulation. Here, we investigated the concentrations of 76 pesticides in Europe at 29 rural, coastal, mountain, and polar sites during the agricultural application season. Overall, 58 pesticides were observed in the European atmosphere. Low spatial variation of 7 pesticides suggests continental-scale atmospheric dispersal. Based on concentrations in free tropospheric air and at Arctic sites, 22 pesticides were identified to be prone to long-range atmospheric transport, which included 15 substances approved for agricultural use in Europe and 7 banned ones. Comparison between concentrations at remote sites and those found at pesticide source areas suggests long atmospheric lifetimes of atrazine, cyprodinil, spiroxamine, tebuconazole, terbuthylazine, and thiacloprid. In general, our findings suggest that atmospheric transport and persistence of pesticides have been underestimated and that their risk assessment needs to be improved. |
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