- Title
- Quantitative biomonitoring of polycyclic aromatic compounds (PACs) using the Sydney rock oyster (saccostrea glomerata)
- Creator
- Idowu, Oluyoye; Tran, Thi Kim Anh; Thavamani, Palanisami; Webster, Grant; Chapman, Ian; Baker, Phil; Farrel, Hazel; Zammit, Anthony; Semple, Kirk T.; Hansbro, Phil M.; O'Connor, Wayne
- Relation
- Science of the Total Environment Vol. 742, Issue 10 November 2020, no. 140497
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.140497
- Publisher
- Elsevier
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2020
- Description
- Increasing our understanding of the bioavailable fractions of polycyclic aromatic compounds (PACs) in an aquatic environment is important for the assessment of the environmental and human health risks posed by PACs. More importantly, the behaviour of polar polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (polar PAHs), which are metabolites of leg-acy PAHs, are yet to be understood. We, therefore, carried out a study involving Sydney rock oysters (Saccostrea glomerata) sourced from two locations, that had been exposed to PAH contamination, within an Australian south-east estuary. Biomonitoring of these oysters, following relocation from the estuary to a relatively isolated water-way, was done at 24 and 72 h after deployment and subsequently at 7, 14, 28, 52 and 86 days. Control samples from Camden Haven River were sampled for PAC analyses just before deployment, after 28 days and at the end of the study (day 86). Lipid-normalised concentrations in oyster tissues across the 86-day sampling duration, elimination rate constants (k2), biological half-lives (t1/2) and time required to reach 95% of steady-state (t95) were reported for parent PAHs and the less-monitored polar PAHs including nitrated/oxygenated/heterocyclic PAHs (NPAHs, oxyPAHs and HPAHs) for the three differently sourced oyster types. Most of the depurating PAHs and NPAHs, as well as 9-FLO (oxyPAH), had k2 values significantly different from zero (p b 0.05). All other oxyPAHs and HPAHs showed no clear depuration, with their concentrations remaining similar. The non-depuration of polar PAHs from oyster tissues could imply greater human health risk compared to their parent analogues.
- Subject
- polar PAHs; saccostrea glomerata; biomonitoring; elimination rate constant; biological half-lives; aquatic environment; SDG 3; SDG 14; Sustainable Development Goals
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1437419
- Identifier
- uon:40344
- Identifier
- ISSN:0048-9697
- Language
- eng
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