Long-term monitoring of sulfonamides and tetracyclines in manure amended soils and leachate samples - A follow-up study.

ABSTRACT: Antibiotics can be detected in manure and digestate samples worldwide. As manure is a frequently used fertilizer, antibiotics are found in soil and leachate samples. Only little is known about the long-term fate of antibiotics in the soil environment. One shortcut is the lack of appropriate monitoring studies. Here we present the results of an unequalled soil monitoring study over 18 years from an agricultural field site in Lower Saxony (Germany). Sulfonamides and tetracycline are mainly fixed in the upper soil layer. Contents showed a sharp decrease below sampling depth of 30 cm (plough depth). Sulfaguanidine and sulfamethazine (SMZ) were detected down to 90 cm. Water samples taken below the field site revealed the transfer of sulfonamides into leachate. High variances were observed betwe

SUBMITTER: Spielmeyer A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7452409 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature