Occurrence profiling and environmental risk assessment of veterinary antibiotics in vegetable soils at Chongqing region, China
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2023
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Fang, L.
Chen, C.
Zhang, F.
Ali, E.F.
Sarkar, B.
Rinklebe, J.
Shaheen, S.M.
Chen, X.
Xiao, R.
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Environmental Research, 2023; 227(article no. 115799):1-11
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Veterinary antibiotics (VAs) are emerging contaminants in soils as they may pose high risks to the ecosystem and human health. Identifying VAs accumulation in soils is essential for assessing their potential risks. Therefore, we investigated the distribution of VAs in soils from vegetable fields and evaluated their potential ecological and antimicrobial resistance risks in the Chongqing region of the Three Gorges Reservoir area, China. Results indicated that twenty-six species of VAs, including nine sulfonamides (SAs), seven quinolones (QNs), four tetracyclines (TCs), four macrolides (MLs), and two other species of VAs were detected in soils, with their accumulative levels ranging from 1.4 to 3145.7 μg kg−1. TCs and QNs were the dominant VAs species in soils with high detection frequencies (100% TCs and 80.6% for QNs) and accumulative concentration (up to 1195 μg kg−1 for TCs and up to 485 μg kg−1 for QNs). Risk assessment indices showed that VAs (specifically SAs, TCs, and QNs) in most vegetable soils would pose a medium to high risk to the ecosystem and antimicrobial resistance. Mixture of VAs posed a higher risk to soil organisms, antimicrobial resistance, and plants than to aquatic organisms. Modeling analysis indicated that socioeconomic conditions, farmers’ education levels, agricultural practices, and soil properties were the main factors governing VAs accumulation and environmental risks. Farmers with a high educational level owned large-scale farms and were more willing to use organic fertilizers for vegetable production, which eventually led to high VAs accumulation in vegetable soil. These findings would provide a reference for sustainable agricultural and environmental production under the current scenario of chemical fertilizer substitution by organic products and green agricultural development.
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Data source: Supplementary data, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envres.2023.115799
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