Wastewater-based epidemiology to assess pan-European pesticide exposure
- Rousis, N.I.
- Gracia-Lor, E.
- Zuccato, E.
- Bade, R.
- Baz-Lomba, J.A.
- Castrignanò, E.
- Causanilles, A.
- Covaci, A.
- de Voogt, P.
- Hernàndez, F.
- Kasprzyk-Hordern, B.
- Kinyua, J.
- McCall, A.-K.
- Plósz, B.G.
- Ramin, P.
- Ryu, Y.
- Thomas, K.V.
- van Nuijs, A.
- Yang, Z.
- Castiglioni, S.
DOIAbstract
Human biomonitoring, i.e. the determination of chemicals and/or their metabolites in human specimens, is the most common and potent tool for assessing human exposure to pesticides, but it suffers from limitations such as high costs and biases in sampling. Wastewater-based epidemiology (WBE) is an innovative approach based on the chemical analysis of specific human metabolic excretion products (biomarkers) in wastewater, and provides objective and real-time information on xenobiotics directly or indirectly ingested by a population. This study applied the WBE approach for the first time to evaluate human exposure to pesticides in eight cities across Europe. 24 h-composite wastewater samples were collected from the main wastewater treatment pl...
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