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Pesticides can be a substantial source of trifluoroacetate (TFA) to water resources
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per year. Therein, some PPP are only used for specific crops in specific regions, while others are used more widely. The importance of PPP as a TFA source is supported by the field data from a region in Germany, which revealed a significant increase in TFA groundwater concentrations with agriculture compared to other land uses. Substance-specific TFA formation rates and field studies are necessary to characterize the formation of TFA from precursors under environmental conditions and to rank and prioritize PPP of concern for potential (regulatory) action.
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“Given that there is no PFAS manufacturing in Serbia, plausible contributors include emissions from industrial and pharmaceutical uses, agricultural application of C–CF3-containing plant protection products, and secondary atmospheric formation through degradation of volatile fluorinated precursors and refrigerant gases [39,40,41].”
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“Fluometuron contains a -CF 3 moiety and it has been identified as a potential precursor of trifluoroacetic acid (TFA).”
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“Also, during ozonation and in the OECD 302B test on inherent biodegradability of organic substances (Zahn-Wellens/EMPA test), the formation of TFA has been reported for the PPP tembotrione, flufenacet, flurtamone and fluopyram (Scheurer et al., 2017).”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Joerss, H., Freeling, F., van Leeuwen, S., Hollender, J., Liu, X., Nödler, K., Wang, Z., Yu, B., Zahn, D., & Sigmund, G.
- Affiliations
- Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon (DE)
- DVGW - Technologiezentrum Wasser (DE)
- ETH Zurich (CH)
- Institute of Plant Protection (CN)
- Empa (CH)
- Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (DE)
- Wageningen University & Research (NL)
- Corresponding author
- Joerss, Hanna
- Sigmund, Gabriel
- ORCID
- Venue
- Environment International
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2024-11
- Volume
- 193
- Pages
- 109061
- ISSN
- 0160-4120 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W4403282870
- Cited by
- 107
- References
- 34
- Citations by year
- 2026: 76 · 2025: 31
- FWCI
- 13.98
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Update notices
- erratum (2024-12-01)
- Open access
- gold
- doi.org
- Licence
- Locations
- Environment International (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- DORA Eawag (Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology (Eawag)) (submittedVersion, cc-by)
- DORA Empa (Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology (Empa)) (submittedVersion, cc-by)
- Socio-Environmental Systems Modeling (submittedVersion, cc-by)
- DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion)
- Repository for Publications and Research Data (ETH Zurich) (submittedVersion, cc-by)
- ETH Zürich Research Collection
- Funders
- National Natural Science Foundation of China (32261133527)
- Federal Ministry of Education and Research Bonn Office (02WGW1720)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Environmental Chemistry › Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances research
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Pollution › Pesticide and Herbicide Environmental Studies
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Pollution › Pharmaceutical and Antibiotic Environmental Impacts
- Keywords
- trifluoroacetate, pesticides, groundwater contamination, water resources, per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, PFAS precursors, agricultural land use, environmental fate
- MeSH terms
- Agriculture, China, Environmental Monitoring, Europe, Pesticides, Trifluoroacetic Acid, United States, Water Pollutants, Chemical, Groundwater, Water Resources
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