PMID- 38112875
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20240119
LR  - 20240202
IS  - 1614-7499 (Electronic)
IS  - 0944-1344 (Linking)
VI  - 31
IP  - 3
DP  - 2024 Jan
TI  - Biomonitoring of PAHs and PCBs in industrial, suburban, and rural areas using 
      snails as sentinel organisms.
PG  - 4970-4984
LID - 10.1007/s11356-023-31493-6 [doi]
AB  - There is a worldwide concern about the presence of persistent organic pollutants 
      (POPs) in the environment because of their toxicity, bioaccumulation, and 
      resistance to degradation. Various conventional monitoring techniques have been 
      used to assess their presence in diverse environmental compartments. Most 
      currently available methods, however, have limitations with regards to long-term 
      monitoring. In the present work, juvenile Cornu aspersum (O. F. Muller, 1774) 
      snails were tested in field microcosms as biomonitors for two major classes of 
      organic pollutants, namely, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) and 
      polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs). The study assessed their deployment in one 
      suburban, one rural, and two industrial sites over an 18-week period and 
      monitored for temporal variations of 16 PAHs and 22 PCBs. Sampling was conducted 
      once every 3 weeks. Targeted pollutants were extracted from the caged snails 
      using the QuEChERS extraction procedure and subsequently analyzed using gas 
      chromatography coupled to tandem mass spectrometry (GC-MS/MS). The results showed 
      that the bioaccumulation of specific pollutants was site dependent; significantly 
      higher levels of PCBs were observed at the industrial sites as compared to the 
      suburban and rural ones. PAHs were bioaccumulated by the snails via ingestion of 
      air and soil whereas PCBs were mainly bioaccumulated via soil contact and 
      ingestion. The findings of this study indicate that C. aspersum is a reliable 
      model organism for the biomonitoring of organic pollutants in air and soil 
      compartments and can be used as part of an integrated environmental assessment.
CI  - (c) 2023. The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, 
      part of Springer Nature.
FAU - Al-Alam, Josephine
AU  - Al-Alam J
AD  - Civil Engineering Department, Lebanese American University, 309 Bassil Building, 
      Byblos, Lebanon.
FAU - Millet, Maurice
AU  - Millet M
AD  - Institute of Chemistry and Processes for Energy, Environment and Health ICPEES, 
      UMR 7515 Group of Physical Chemistry of the Atmosphere, University of Strasbourg, 
      Strasbourg, France.
FAU - Khoury, Dani
AU  - Khoury D
AD  - Institute of Chemistry and Processes for Energy, Environment and Health ICPEES, 
      UMR 7515 Group of Physical Chemistry of the Atmosphere, University of Strasbourg, 
      Strasbourg, France.
FAU - Rodrigues, Anais
AU  - Rodrigues A
AD  - Institute of Chemistry and Processes for Energy, Environment and Health ICPEES, 
      UMR 7515 Group of Physical Chemistry of the Atmosphere, University of Strasbourg, 
      Strasbourg, France.
FAU - Akoury, Elias
AU  - Akoury E
AD  - Department of Natural Sciences, Lebanese American University, Chouran, Beirut, 
      1102-2801, Lebanon.
FAU - Tokajian, Sima
AU  - Tokajian S
AD  - Department of Natural Sciences, Lebanese American University, Chouran, Beirut, 
      1102-2801, Lebanon.
FAU - Wazne, Mahmoud
AU  - Wazne M
AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-9838-8394
AD  - Civil Engineering Department, Lebanese American University, 309 Bassil Building, 
      Byblos, Lebanon. mahmoud.wazne@lau.edu.lb.
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
DEP - 20231219
PL  - Germany
TA  - Environ Sci Pollut Res Int
JT  - Environmental science and pollution research international
JID - 9441769
RN  - DFC2HB4I0K (Polychlorinated Biphenyls)
RN  - 0 (Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons)
RN  - 0 (Environmental Pollutants)
RN  - 0 (Soil)
SB  - IM
MH  - Animals
MH  - *Polychlorinated Biphenyls/analysis
MH  - Sentinel Species/metabolism
MH  - Biological Monitoring
MH  - Tandem Mass Spectrometry
MH  - *Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons/analysis
MH  - Environmental Monitoring/methods
MH  - Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry
MH  - *Environmental Pollutants/analysis
MH  - Soil/chemistry
MH  - Snails/metabolism
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - C. aspersum
OT  - Environmental contamination
OT  - Microcosms
OT  - Persistent organic pollutants
EDAT- 2023/12/19 19:52
MHDA- 2024/01/19 06:42
CRDT- 2023/12/19 11:20
PHST- 2023/05/22 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2023/12/07 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2024/01/19 06:42 [medline]
PHST- 2023/12/19 19:52 [pubmed]
PHST- 2023/12/19 11:20 [entrez]
AID - 10.1007/s11356-023-31493-6 [pii]
AID - 10.1007/s11356-023-31493-6 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Environ Sci Pollut Res Int. 2024 Jan;31(3):4970-4984. doi: 
      10.1007/s11356-023-31493-6. Epub 2023 Dec 19.