Occurrences and risk assessment of antibiotics in water bodies of major rivers in Bohai Rim Basin
ZHAO Fu-qiang1,2, GAO Hui1, LI Rui-jing1, JIN Shuai-chen1, ZHANG Hai-bo1, LI Shi-sheng1,3, ZHANG Ke-yu1,3, SHU Qin1,3, NA Guang-shui1,2,3,4
1. National Marine Environmental Monitoring Center, Dalian 116023, China; 2. College of Marine Technology and Environment, Dalian Ocean University, Dalian 116023, China; 3. College of Marine Ecology and Environment, Shanghai Ocean University, Shanghai 201306, China; 4. College of Ecology and Environment, Hainan Tropical Ocean University, Sanya 572022, China
Abstract:This study was conducted to characterize the occurrences and accumulation of antibiotics in surface water of each river's downstream in Bohai Rim Basin and to evaluate their ecological risk and human health risk. The results indicate that 50 antibiotics falling into 6 categories were detected in the lower reaches of four major rivers (Xiaoling, Luanhe, Yellow River and Daliao) in Bohai Rim Basin. Off all kinds of antibiotics, β-Ls, MLs and QNs were dominant in those waterbodies of the basin, of which the concentration of Penicillin G was the highest, up to 353.13ng/L. Compared with other rivers in China, The concentration of antibiotics ranged from 124.50ng/L to 489.16ng/L whose average concentration over the study area was rated at a moderate pollution level, but higher than that in other rivers of China. The accumulation level of different rivers was rated in the order as: Xiaoling River>Daliao River>Luanhe River>Yellow River. In addition, amoxicillin, anhydroerythromycin and erythromycin presented higher ecological risk to sensitive aquatic species than did tetracycline, oxytetracycline, enrofloxacin, ofloxacin and cinoxacin which were evaluated at a moderate ecological risk. According to the threshold of the human health risk value of target antibiotics (2.53×10-7~6.79×10-3), the pollution level of the antibiotics in the Bohai Rim Basin did not become a health threat to people yet.
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ZHAO Fu-qiang, GAO Hui, LI Rui-jing, JIN Shuai-chen, ZHANG Hai-bo, LI Shi-sheng, ZHANG Ke-yu, SHU Qin, NA Guang-shui. Occurrences and risk assessment of antibiotics in water bodies of major rivers in Bohai Rim Basin. CHINA ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCECE, 2022, 42(1): 109-118.
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