Pine needles as passive sampler of air pollution. Standard operating procedure of their analysis and possible use for bioassay.

BARÁKOVÁ, Daniela, Jana KLÁNOVÁ, Pavel ČUPR and Ivan HOLOUBEK. Pine needles as passive sampler of air pollution. Standard operating procedure of their analysis and possible use for bioassay. In 20th SETAC Europe annual meeting. 2010.

Basic information

Original name

Pine needles as passive sampler of air pollution. Standard operating procedure of their analysis and possible use for bioassay.

Name in Czech

Jehlice borovice jako pasivní vzorkovač ovzduší. Standardní operační procedura jejich zpracování a jejich možné využití pro testy toxicity

Authors

BARÁKOVÁ, Daniela, Jana KLÁNOVÁ, Pavel ČUPR and Ivan HOLOUBEK

Edition

20th SETAC Europe annual meeting, 2010

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Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Konferenční abstrakt

Field of Study

10511 Environmental sciences

Country of publisher

Czech Republic

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

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Organization unit

Faculty of Science

Keywords (in Czech)

pasivní vzorkování ovzduší, jehlice, testování toxicity

Keywords in English

passive air sampling, needles, bioassay

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Abstract

V originále

Persistent organic pollutants (POPs) are a group of highly lipophilic compounds, which are widely spread in the environment. They are conventionally monitored using high volume air sampling technique. An alternative to active sampling represent passive air samplers (SPMD, PUF). However, the cheapest and most readily available tool for estimation of atmospheric POP levels at remote and poorly accessible locations (the high mountains) remains biota. Especially needles were identified to be a good matrix for passive air sampling. New development in the environmental chemistry is a combination of passive sampling and bioassays which provide information on possible risks for living organisms. What makes the interpretation of such data difficult is a fact that each of published studies used different plant material (species, needle age), method of sampling, extraction and clean-up. In addition, some of the authors reported a POP content in dry or wet needle weight whiles the others in lipid weight. Such data prevent us from comparison of results from various studies. Harmonization of the methodology for sampling, sample processing, and data reporting seems to be crucial. The aim of this study was to develop a standard operational procedure for application of needles as a tool for assessment of the atmospheric pollution including bioassays estimating toxicity of the samples and possible risks for living organisms.

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ED0001/01/01, research and development project	Name: CETOCOEN
MSM0021622412, plan (intention)	Name: Interakce mezi chemickými látkami, prostředím a biologickými systémy a jejich důsledky na globální, regionální a lokální úrovni (INCHEMBIOL) (Acronym: INCHEMBIOL) Investor: Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the CR, Interactions among the chemicals, environment and biological systems and their consequences on the global, regional and local scales (INCHEMBIOL)