Pesticides in doormat and floor dust from homes close to treated fields: Spatio-temporal variance and determinants of occurrence and concentrations

Daniel Figueiredo; Rosalie Nijssen; Esmeralda Krop; Daan Buijtenhuijs; Yvonne Gooijer; Luuk Lageschaar; Jan Duyzer; Anke Huss; Hans Mol; Roel Vermeulen

doi:10.1016/j.envpol.2022.119024

Pesticides in doormat and floor dust from homes close to treated fields: Spatio-temporal variance and determinants of occurrence and concentrations

Daniel Figueiredo, Rosalie Nijssen, Esmeralda Krop, Daan Buijtenhuijs, Yvonne Gooijer, Luuk Lageschaar, Jan Duyzer, Anke Huss, Hans Mol, Roel Vermeulen

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Indoor dust has been postulated as an important matrix for residential pesticide exposure. However, there is a lack of information on presence, concentrations and determinants of multiple pesticides in dust in residential homes close to treated fields. Our objective was to characterize the spatial and temporal variance of pesticides in house dust, study the use of doormats and floors as proxies for pesticides in indoor dust and identify determinants of occurrence and concentrations. Homes within 250 m from selected bulb fields were invited to participate. Homes within 20 km from these fields but not having agricultural fields within 500 m were selected as controls. House dust was vacuumed in all homes from floors (VFD) and from newly placed clean doormats (DDM). Sampling was done during two periods, when pesticides are used and not-used. For determination of 46 prioritized pesticides, a multi-residue extraction method was used. Most statistical analyses are focused on the 12 and 14 pesticides that were detected in >40% of DDM and VFD samples, respectively. Mixed models were used to evaluate relationships between possible determinants and pesticides occurrence and concentrations in DDM and VFD. 17 pesticides were detected in more than 50% of the homes in both matrixes. Concentrations differed by about a factor five between use and non-use periods among homes within 250 m of fields and between these homes and controls. For 7 pesticides there was a moderate to strong correlation (Spearman rho 0.30-0.75) between concentrations in DDM and VFD. Distance to agricultural fields and air concentrations were among the most relevant predictors for occurrence and levels of a given pesticide in DDM. Concentrations in dust are overall higher during application periods and closer to fields (<250 m) than further away. The omnipresence of pesticides in dust lead to residents being exposed all year round.

Original language	English
Article number	119024
Pages (from-to)	1-14
Number of pages	14
Journal	Environmental pollution (Barking, Essex : 1987)
Volume	301
Early online date	21 Feb 2022
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envpol.2022.119024
Publication status	Published - 15 May 2022

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Funding Information:
Funding: This work was conducted within the OBO Project (Dutch acronym for “Research on Exposure of residents to pesticides”), funded by the Dutch ministry of Infrastructure and Water Management and the ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate Policy . The work was commissioned by the Dutch National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM) .

Funding Information:
Funding: This work was conducted within the OBO Project (Dutch acronym for “Research on Exposure of residents to pesticides”), funded by the Dutch ministry of Infrastructure and Water Management and the ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate Policy. The work was commissioned by the Dutch National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM). The authors thank all members of the OBO consortium for the discussions regarding research orientation. We also thank all the field workers that were involved in the collection of the data used in this manuscript, as well as the laboratory personnel that analysed the dust samples. We are grateful for the assistance of the RIVM during all phases of the study.

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© 2022 The Author(s)

Keywords

Doormat
Exposure
Floor dust
Pesticides
Residents
Take-home

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Figueiredo, D., Nijssen, R., Krop, E., Buijtenhuijs, D., Gooijer, Y., Lageschaar, L., Duyzer, J., Huss, A., Mol, H., & Vermeulen, R. (2022). Pesticides in doormat and floor dust from homes close to treated fields: Spatio-temporal variance and determinants of occurrence and concentrations. Environmental pollution (Barking, Essex : 1987), 301, 1-14. Article 119024. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envpol.2022.119024

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