Journal article

Publication year: 2012

Journal: Environmental Sciences Europe

Volume number: 24

ISSN: 2190-4707

eISSN: 2190-4715

DOI Link: https://doi.org/10.1186/2190-4715-24-4

Publisher: SpringerOpen

Abstract: 
An important aim of the European Community Regulation on chemicals and their safe use is the identification of (very) persistent, (very) bioaccumulative, and toxic substances. In other regulatory chemical safety assessments (pharmaceuticals, biocides, pesticides), the identification of such (very) persistent, (very) bioaccumulative, and toxic substances is of increasing importance. Solid-phase microextraction is especially capable of extracting total water concentrations as well as the freely dissolved fraction of analytes in the water phase, which is available for bioconcentration in fish. However, although already well established in environmental analyses to determine and quantify analytes mainly in aqueous matrices, solid-phase microextraction is still a rather unusual method in regulatory ecotoxicological research. Here, the potential benefits and drawbacks of solid-phase microextraction are discussed as an analytical routine approach for aquatic bioconcentration studies according to OECD TG 305, with a special focus on the testing of hydrophobic organic compounds characterized by log K_OW > 5.

Harvard Citation style: Düring, R., Böhm, L. and Schlechtriem, C. (2012) Solid-phase microextraction for bioconcentration studies according to OECD TG 305, Environmental Sciences Europe, 24, Article 4. https://doi.org/10.1186/2190-4715-24-4

APA Citation style: Düring, R., Böhm, L., & Schlechtriem, C. (2012). Solid-phase microextraction for bioconcentration studies according to OECD TG 305. Environmental Sciences Europe. 24, Article 4. https://doi.org/10.1186/2190-4715-24-4