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Polar organic chemical integrative sampler (POCIS) uptake rates for 17 polar pesticides and degradation products: laboratory calibration

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Polar organic chemical integrative samplers (POCIS) are useful for monitoring a wide range of chemicals, including polar pesticides, in water bodies. However, few calibration data are available, which limits the use of these samplers for time-weighted average concentration measurements in an aquatic medium. This work deals with the laboratory calibration of the pharmaceutical configuration of a polar organic chemical integrative sampler (pharm-POCIS) for calculating the sampling rates of 17 polar pesticides (1.15 ≤ logK ow ≤ 3.71) commonly found in water. The experiment, conducted for 21 days in a continuous water flow-through exposure system, showed an integrative accumulation of all studied pesticides for 15 days. Three compounds (metalaxyl, azoxystrobine, and terbuthylazine) remained integrative for the 21-day experiment. The sampling rates measured ranged from 67.9 to 279 mL day−1 and increased with the hydrophobicity of the pesticides until reaching a plateau where no significant variation in sampling rate is observed when increasing the hydrophobicity.

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Abbreviations

POCIS:

Polar organic chemical integrative sampler

Pharm-POCIS:

Pharmaceutical polar organic integrative sampler

Pest-POCIS:

Pesticide polar organic chemical integrative sampler

TWA:

Time weighted average

DEA:

Desethylatrazine

DIA:

Desisopropylatrazine

DET:

Desethylterbuthylazine

SPE:

Solid phase extraction

PES:

Polyethersulfone

UPLC:

Ultra performance liquid chromatography

RSD:

Relative standard deviation

MRM:

Multiple reaction-monitoring mode

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Acknowledgments

The authors would like to thank C. Coureau for her valuable assistance in laboratory analyses and M.Kleuvers for his precious help for the english text correction. We also thank the Carnot institute (BRGM) and the engineering school of Alès (EMA) for financial support of this study, which is a part of a PhD research.

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  1. Laboratory Division, Bureau de recherche géologiques et minières (BRGM), 3 avenue Claude Guillemin, 45100, Orléans, France

    Imtiaz Ibrahim & Anne Togola

  2. LGEI Center, Ecole des mines d’Alès (EMA), 6 Avenue de Clavieres, 30319, Alès, France

    Imtiaz Ibrahim & Catherine Gonzalez

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Ibrahim, I., Togola, A. & Gonzalez, C. Polar organic chemical integrative sampler (POCIS) uptake rates for 17 polar pesticides and degradation products: laboratory calibration. Environ Sci Pollut Res 20, 3679–3687 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-012-1284-3

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