Bioaccumulation of Highly Hydrophobic Chemicals by Lumbriculus variegatus

Archives of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology
Lawrence P BurkhardTeresa J Norberg-King

Abstract

Bioaccumulation of highly hydrophobic chemicals (log KOW > 8) from contaminated sediments by Lumbriculus variegatus has been studied for relatively few chemicals, and the measured and model predicted biota-sediment accumulation factors (BSAFs) can differ by orders of magnitude. In the current study, sediment bioaccumulation tests with L. variegatus were performed on sediments dosed with chemicals having a wide range of predicted n-octanol/water partition coefficients (KOW; 106-1018), including some higher than most highly hydrophobic chemicals studied to date. The highly hydrophobic chemicals had biphasic elimination kinetics with compartments A and B having fast and slow elimination kinetics, respectively, and for compartment B, elimination followed first-order kinetics. For compartment A with fast elimination kinetics, the mechanism and its kinetic-order could not be determined. Steady-state BSAFs (kg organic carbon/kg lipid) of 0.015, 0.024, and 0.022 were derived for tetradecachloro-p-terphenyl, tetradecachloro-m-terphenyl, and octadecachloro-p-quaterphenyl, respectively. The high uncertainty in predicted KOWs for highly hydrophobic chemicals limited the comparison and evaluation of predicted BSAFs from the Arnot-Gobas food...Continue Reading

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