• openAccess   The NORMAN Association and the European Partnership for Chemicals Risk Assessment (PARC): let’s cooperate! 

      Dulio, Valeria; Koschorreck, Jan; van Bavel, Bert; Van den Brink, Paul J.; Hollender, Juliane; Munthe, John; Schlabach, Martin; Aalizadeh, Reza; Ågerstrand, Marlene; Ahrens, Lutz; Allan, Ian; Alygizakis, Nikiforos; Barceló, Damià; Bohlin-Nizzetto, Pernilla; Boutroup, Susanne; Brack, Werner; Bressy, Adèle; Christensen, Jan H; Cirka, Lubos; Covaci, Adrian; Derksen, Anja; Deviller, Geneviève; Dingemans, Milou M. I.; Engwall, Magnus; Fatta-Kassinos, Despo; Gago-Ferrero, Pablo; Hernandez, Felix; Herzke, Dorte; Hilscherova, Klara; Hollert, Henner; Junghans, Marion; Kasprzyk-Hordern, Barbara; Keiter, Steffen; Kools, Stefan; Kruve-Viil, Anneli; Lambropoulou, Dimitra; Lamoree, Marja; Leonards, Pim; Lopez, Benjamin; López de Alda, Miren; Lundy, Lian; Makovinska, Jarmila; Marigómez, Ionan; Martin, Jonathan; McHugh, Brendan; Miège, Cécile; O'Toole, Simon; Perkola, Noora; Polesello, Stefano; Posthuma, Leo; Rostkowski, Pawel; Ruedel, Heinz; Samanipour, Saer; Schulze, Tobias; Schymanski, Emma; Sengl, Manfred; Tarabek, Peter; Rodriguez-Mozaz, Sara; Ten Hulscher, Dorien; Thomaidis, Nikolaos; Togola, Anne; Valsecchi, Sara; van Leeuwen, Stefan; von der Ohe, Peter Carsten; Vrana, Branislav; Slobodnik, Jaroslav Springer (2020-06-20)
      The Partnership for Chemicals Risk Assessment (PARC) is currently under development as a joint research and innovation programme to strengthen the scientific basis for chemical risk assessment in the EU. The plan is to ...
    • openAccess   Monitoring psychoactive substance use at six European festivals through wastewater and pooled urine analysis 

      Bijlsma, Lubertus; Celma, Alberto; Castiglioni, Sara; Salgueiro-González, Noelia; Bou Iserte, Lledó; Baz Lomba, Jose Antonio; Reid, Malcolm; Dias, M.J.; Lopes, Alvaro; Matias, Joao Luis; Pastor Alcañiz, Laura; Radonic, J.; Turk Sekulic, M.; Shine, Trevor; van Nuijs, Alexander; Hernandez, Felix; Zuccato, Ettore Elsevier (2020-07-10)
      The consumption of psychoactive substances is considered a growing problem in many communities. Moreover, new psychoactive substances (NPS) designed as (legal) substitutes to traditional illicit drugs are relatively easily ...
    • openAccess   Assessing alcohol consumption through wastewater-based epidemiology: Spain as case study 

      López-García, Ester; Pérez López, Carlos; Postigo, Cristina; Andreu, Vicente; Bijlsma, Lubertus; González-Mariño, Iria; Hernandez, Felix; Marcé, Rosa María; Montes, Rosa; Picó Gracia, Yolanda; Pocurull, Eva; Rico, Andreu; rodil, rosario; Rosende, María; Valcárcel, Yolanda; ZULOAGA ZUBIETA, OLATZ; Quintana, José Benito; López de Alda, Miren Elsevier (2020-08-19)
      Background In this study, an alternative and complementary method to those approaches currently used to estimate alcohol consumption by the population is described. This method, known as wastewater-based epidemiology ...
    • openAccess   Metabolism of N-ethylhexedrone and buphedrone: An in vivo study in mice using HPLC-MS/MS 

      Carrola, Diana; Duarte, Noélia; Florindo, Pedro; Henriques, Sara Carolina; Bijlsma, Lubertus; Moreira, Rui; Ribeiro Correia, Catarina; Perry, Maria Jesus; Lopes, Alvaro; de Mello Sampayo, Cristina; Bronze, Maria do Rosário Elsevier (2020-08-25)
      N-ethylhexedrone (NEH) and buphedrone (BUPH) are synthetic drugs structurally related to natural cathinone. These synthetic cathinones (SC) are members of the heterogenous family of new psychoactive substances (NPS), which ...
    • closedAccess   No transfer of the non-regulated mycotoxins, beauvericin and enniatins, from feeds to farmed fish reared on plant-based diets 

      Nácher Mestre, Jaime; Beltrán Iturat, Eduardo; Strachan, Fiona; Dick, James R.; Pérez Sánchez, Jaume; Berntssen, Marc H. G.; Tocher, Douglas Elsevier (2020-09-01)
      Concern about the risk of exposure to emerging plant-derived mycotoxins such as beauvericin and enniatins has been addressed by the European Commission who requested the European Food Safety Authority for a scientific ...
    • openAccess   Do background levels of the pesticide pirimiphosmethyl in plant-based aquafeeds affect food safety of farmed Atlantic salmon? 

      Berntssen, Marc H. G.; Hoogenveen, Rudolf; Rosenlund, Grethe; Garlito Molina, Borja; Zeilmaker, Marco J. Taylor & Francis Group (2020-10-20)
      The substitution of fish oil and fishmeal with plant-based ingredients in commercial aquafeeds for Atlantic salmon, may introduce novel contaminants that have not previously been associated with farmed fish. The organophosphate ...
    • openAccess   The key role of mass spectrometry in comprehensive research on new psychoactive substances 

      Fabregat-Safont, David; Sancho, Juan V; Hernandez, Felix; Ibáñez, Maria John Wiley and Sons (2020-10-29)
      New psychoactive substances (NPS) are a wide group of compounds that try to mimic the effects produced by the ‘classical’ illicit drugs, including cannabis (synthetic cannabinoids), cocaine and amphetamines (synthetic ...
    • openAccess   Gas chromatography-mass spectrometry based untargeted volatolomics for smoked seafood classification 

      Lacalle-Bergeron, Leticia; Portoles, Tania; Sales Martínez, Carlos; Corell, María Carmen; Domínguez, Fernando; Beltran Arandes, Joaquin; Sancho, Juan V; Hernandez, Felix Elsevier (2020-11)
      With the increase of the demand of low flavouring smoked seafood products, there is a need of methodologies able to distinguish between different seafood treatments, as not all of them are allowed in all markers. Following ...
    • openAccess   Occurrence and ecological risks of pharmaceuticals in a Mediterranean river in Eastern Spain 

      Fonseca Rubí, Eddie; Hernandez, Felix; Ibáñez, Maria; Rico, Andreu; Pitarch, Elena; Bijlsma, Lubertus Elsevier (2020-11)
      Pharmaceuticals are biologically active molecules that may exert toxic effects to a wide range of aquatic organisms. They are considered contaminants of emerging concern due to their common presence in wastewaters and in ...
    • openAccess   First nation-wide estimation of tobacco consumption in Spain using wastewater-based epidemiology 

      Montes, Rosa; Rodil, Rosario; Rico, Andreu; Cela, Rafael; González-Mariño, Iria; Hernandez, Felix; Bijlsma, Lubertus; Celma, Alberto; Picó Gracia, Yolanda; Andreu, Vicente; López de Alda, Miren; López-García, Ester; Postigo, Cristina; Pocurull, Eva; Marcé, Rosa María; Rosende, María; Olivares, Maitane; Valcárcel, Yolanda; Quintana, José Benito Elsevier (2020-11-01)
      Wastewater-based epidemiology (WBE) has become a very useful tool to monitor a population’s drug consumption or exposure to environmental and food contaminants. In this work, WBE has been applied to estimate tobacco ...
    • openAccess   Effects of different amendments (organic matter and hydrogel) on the actual evapotranspiration and crop coefficient of turf grass under field conditions 

      Bandenay, G.L.; Renau-Pruñonosa, Arianna; Morell, Ignacio; Esteller Alberich, Maria Vicenta John Wiley and Sons (2020-11-16)
      The irrigation schedule in arid areas has to be efficient in order to reduce losses due to evaporation and deep infiltration. Irrigation optimization poses the need to establish with precision the value of actual ...
    • openAccess   Improving Target and Suspect Screening High-Resolution Mass Spectrometry Workflows in Environmental Analysis by Ion Mobility Separation 

      Celma, Alberto; Sancho, Juan V; Schymanski, Emma; Fabregat-Safont, David; Ibáñez, Maria; Goshawk, Jeff; Barknowitz, Gitte; Hernandez, Felix; Bijlsma, Lubertus American Chemical Society (2020-11-19)
      Currently, the most powerful approach to monitor organic micropollutants (OMPs) in environmental samples is the combination of target, suspect, and nontarget screening strategies using high-resolution mass spectrometry ...
    • openAccess   Analytical Strategy for Identification and Quantification of 13 Steroids in Sole (Solea senegalensis) Tissues, Eggs, and Larvae for Application in Aquaculture Studies of Reproduction 

      Serrano, Roque; Beltran, Eduardo; Piquer, Vanesa; Hernandez, Felix; Mañanós, Evaristo American Chemical Society (2021)
      Knowing the levels of steroids in fish is crucial for understanding the reproductive processes during fish development and for reproductive success in aquaculture facilities. Although some of these compounds are present ...
    • openAccess   The embodiment of wastewater data for the estimation of illicit drug consumption in Spain 

      Bijlsma, Lubertus; Picó, Yolanda; Andreu, Vicente; Celma, Alberto; Estévez Danta, Andrea; González-Mariño, Iria; Hernandez, Felix; López de Alda, Miren; López-García, Ester; Marcé-Recasens, Rosa Maria; Miró, Manuel; Montes, Rosa; Pérez de San Román Landa, Unai; Pitarch, Elena; Pocurull, Eva; Postigo, Cristina; Prieto Sobrino, Ailette; Rico, Andreu; Rodil, Rosario; Valcárcel, Yolanda; Ventura, Mireia; Quintana, José Benito Elsevier (2021)
      Data obtained from wastewater analysis can provide rapid and complementary insights in illicit drug consumption at community level. Within Europe, Spain is an important country of transit of both cocaine and cannabis. The ...
    • openAccess   Development and Application of Liquid Chromatographic Retention Time Indices in HRMS-Based Suspect and Nontarget Screening 

      Aalizadeh, Reza; Alygizakis, Nikiforos; Schymanski, Emma; Krauss, Martin; Schulze, Tobias; Ibañez Martinez, Maria; McEachran, Andrew D.; Chao, Alex; Williams, Antony J.; Gago-Ferrero, Pablo; Covaci, Adrian; Moschet, Christoph; Young, Thomas; Hollender, Juliane; Slobodnik, Jaroslav; Thomaidis, Nikolaos American Chemical Society (2021)
      There is an increasing need for comparable and harmonized retention times (tR) in liquid chromatography (LC) among different laboratories, to provide supplementary evidence for the identity of compounds in high-resolution ...
    • openAccess   Optimization of electronic nose drift correction applied to tomato volatile profiling 

      Valcárcel, Mercedes; Ibáñez, Ginés; Martí, Raúl; Beltran Arandes, Joaquin; Cebolla-Cornejo, Jaime; Roselló, Salvador Springer (2021)
      E-noses can be routinely used to evaluate the volatile profile of tomato samples once the sensor drift and standardization issues are adequately solved. Short-term drift can be corrected using a strategy based on a ...
    • openAccess   Chromatography hyphenated to high resolution mass spectrometry in untargeted metabolomics for investigation of food (bio)markers 

      Lacalle-Bergeron, Leticia; Izquierdo-Sandoval, David; Sancho, Juan V; López, Francisco; Hernandez, Felix; Portoles, Tania Elsevier (2021-02-01)
      Currently, there is a growing demand by our society, authorities and science to increase the knowledge about the quality of food and its relationship with health and disease. Untargeted metabolomics approaches are emerging ...
    • openAccess   Ecological risk assessment of pesticides in the Mijares River (eastern Spain) impacted by citrus production using wide-scope screening and target quantitative analysis 

      Bijlsma, Lubertus; Pitarch, Elena; Hernandez, Felix; Fonseca, Eddie; Marín, José M.; Ibáñez, Maria; Portoles, Tania; Rico, Andreu Elsevier (2021-02-02)
      The widespread use of pesticides, especially in agricultural areas, makes necessary to control their presence in surrounding surface waters. The current study was designed to investigate the occurrence and ecological risks ...
    • openAccess   Perspectives and challenges associated with the determination of new psychoactive substances in urine and wastewater – A tutorial 

      Bijlsma, Lubertus; Bade, Richard; Been, Frederic; Celma, Alberto; Castiglioni, Sara Elsevier (2021-02-08)
      New psychoactive substances (NPS), often designed as (legal) substitutes to conventional illicit drugs, are constantly emerging in the drug market and being commercialized in different ways and forms. Their use continues ...
    • openAccess   Occurrence of pharmaceutical metabolites and transformation products in the aquatic environment of the Mediterranean area 

      Ibáñez, Maria; Bijlsma, Lubertus; Pitarch, Elena; Lopez, Francisco; Hernandez, Felix Elsevier (2021-02-09)
      The presence of pharmaceutically active substances (PhACs) in aquatic ecosystems is of great concern dueto their constant occurrence in different water systems and potential negative effects on the quality ofwater and ...