Impact of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons on the Environment and Human Health: Evidence Retrieved from Biomonitoring Studies

firstₚage Download PDF settings Order Article Reprints Font Type: Arial Georgia Verdana Font Size: Aa Aa Aa Line Spacing:    Column Width:    Background: Open AccessAbstract Impact of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons on the Environment and Human Health: Evidence Retrieved from Biomonitoring Studies † by Joana TeixeiraJoana Teixeira SciProfiles Scilit Preprints. org Google Scholar 1, 2, Cristina Delerue-MatosCristina Delerue-Matos SciProfiles Scilit Preprints. org Google Scholar 2, Simone MoraisSimone Morais SciProfiles Scilit Preprints. org Google Scholar 2 and Marta OliveiraMarta Oliveira SciProfiles Scilit Preprints. org Google Scholar 2, * 1 REQUIMTE/UCIBIO, Departamento de Ciências Biológicas, Faculdade de Farmácia da Universidade do Porto, Unidade Biociências Moleculares Aplicadas, Rua Jorge de Viterbo Ferreira 228, 4050-313 Porto, Portugal 2 REQUIMTE/LAQV-Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto, Instituto Politécnico do Porto, Rua Dr. António Bernardino de Almeida 431, 4249-015 Porto, Portugal * Author to whom correspondence should be addressed. † Presented at the 1st International Electronic Conference on Toxics, 20–22 March 2024; Available online: https: //sciforum. net/event/IECTO2024. Proceedings 2024, 102 (1), 18; https: //doi. org/10. 3390/proceedings2024102018 Published: 3 April 2024 Download keyboardₐrrowdown Download PDF Download PDF with Cover Download XML Download Epub Download Supplementary Material Versions Notes Keywords: environmental pollution; wildfires; sentinel species; biomonitors; human exposure; one health The presence of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in different environmental matrices has significant repercussions on ecosystems and human health. There is a need to reunite and revise the available literature to improve the evaluation of the impact of PAHs on the environment and human health. This work compiles, for the first time, the concentrations of PAHs in the air, aquatic ecosystems, and soils, with a global overview of the results from environmental and human biomonitoring studies. The higher incidence of anthropogenic occupancy is directly associated with the presence of PAHs in the environmental matrices (1344. 4–12, 300 ng/m3 versus 0. 03–0. 60 ng/m3 in the air in industrial/urban and rural areas, respectively; 2. 00 − 1. 66 × 107 ng/L and 7. 00 × 10−4 − 1. 00 × 109 ng/g in the water systems and aquatic sediments from coastal areas, respectively; 0. 14 − 1. 77 × 106 ng/g and 1. 59 − 5. 87 × 103 ng/g in urban and rural soils, respectively). Benzo (a) pyrene, a carcinogenic PAH, was found in all the environmental matrices. The potential of some sentinel species (e. g. , mosses, lichens, tree leaves, bivalves, and cephalopods) used as biomonitors in environmental biomonitoring studies is described. Despite the growing concern about the negative impacts of PAH exposure, more biomonitoring studies are crucial to characterize the impact of PAHs on the environment and human health and estimate the associated risks for wildlife and humans. Mitigation and preventive measures for PAH exposure can be beneficial to protect human health due to the improvement in the human–animal–environment interface. Supplementary MaterialsThe following supporting information can be downloaded at: https: //www. mdpi. com/article/10. 3390/proceedings2024102018/s1, Conference Poster: Impact of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons on the Environment and Human Health: Evidence Retrieved from Biomonitoring Studies. Author ContributionsConceptualization, M. O. ; Methodology and search, J. T. and M. O. ; Writing—original draft preparation, J. T. and M. O. ; Writing—review and editing, M. O. and S. M. ; Visualization, S. M. and C. D. -M. ; Funding acquisition, S. M. , M. O. and C. D. -M. All authors have read and agreed to the published version of the manuscript. FundingThis work was funded by project PCIF/SSO/0090/2019 (http: //doi. org/10. 54499/PCIF/SSO/0090/2019) by the Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Ministério da Ciência, Tecnologia e Ensino Superior (FCT-MCTES) through national funds. Institutional Review Board StatementNot applicable. Informed Consent StatementNot applicable. Data Availability StatementData will be made available on request. AcknowledgmentsThis work received support from UIDB/50006/2020 (https: //doi. org/10. 54499/UIDB/50006/2020), UIDP/50006/2020 (https: //doi. org/10. 54499/UIDP/50006/2020), LA/P/0008/2020 (https: //doi. org/10. 54499/LA/P/0008/2020), 2022. 05381. PTDC (http: //doi. org/10. 54499/2022. 05381. PTDC), and PCIF/SSO/0017/2018 by FCT-MCTES. M. Oliveira thanks to the scientific contract CEEC—Individual 2017 Program Contract CEECIND/03666/2017 (https: //doi. org/10. 54499/CEECIND/03666/2017/CP1427/CT0007). Conflicts of InterestThe authors declare no conflicts of interest. 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