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  3. Acute toxicity of fluazinam to aquatic organisms and its bioaccumulation in Brachydanio rerio

Acute toxicity of fluazinam to aquatic organisms and its bioaccumulation in Brachydanio rerio

  • Environ Sci Pollut Res Int. 2020 Oct;27(28):35000-35007. doi: 10.1007/s11356-020-09779-w.
Wenzhu Wu 1 2,  Deyang Kong 3,  Weidong Zhang 3,  Yuanqing Bu 3,  Juying Li 3,  Zhengjun Shan 3
Affiliations

Affiliations

  • 1 College of Resources and Environmental Sciences, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, 210095, China. wwz@nies.org.
  • 2 Key Laboratory of Pesticide Environmental Assessment and Pollution Control, Ministry of Ecology and Environment of the People's Republic of China, Nanjing Institute of Environmental Science, Nanjing, 210042, China. wwz@nies.org.
  • 3 Key Laboratory of Pesticide Environmental Assessment and Pollution Control, Ministry of Ecology and Environment of the People's Republic of China, Nanjing Institute of Environmental Science, Nanjing, 210042, China.
PMID: 32583109 DOI: 10.1007/s11356-020-09779-w
Abstract

Fluazinam (FZN) is a dinitroaniline fungicide. To evaluate the environmental risk of FZN in aquatic environments and ascertain the potential danger to typical aquatic organisms in China, the acute toxicity of FZN to representative aquatic organisms, including Brachydanio rerio, Chlorella vulgaris Beij., Daphnia magna Straus, and Xenopus laevis, was measured, and its bioaccumulation properties in Brachydanio rerio were further investigated. The results showed that the acute toxicity of FZN to Brachydanio rerio and Xenopus laevis is extremely high, and the bioaccumulation factor BCF8d of FZN in Brachydanio rerio ranges between 2287 and 3570, implying that it has high bioaccumulation properties. FZN poses a strong environmental risk for aquatic organisms and possesses great bioaccumulation properties, which may cause pollution to aquatic environments.

Keywords

Acute toxicity; Aquatic organisms; Bioaccumulation; Brachydanio rerio; Fluazinam.

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