Exposure of tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus) to the antibiotic florfenicol in water: determination of the bioconcentration factor and the withdrawal period.

The demand for healthier foods with high nutritional value has resulted in intensive fish farming. In this production system, high-frequency infections occur, and antibiotics are administrated for control. Only two antibiotics are allowed for use in Brazilian aquaculture, one of which is florfenicol.

Evaluation of health and environmental risks for juvenile tilapia () exposed to florfenicol.

Intensive fish cultivation has a high incidence of infection, which is often controlled by administering antibiotics. Florfenicol (FF) is one of the two antimicrobial drugs permitted for aquaculture in Brazil. Due to their intensive use, potentially harmful effects on aquatic organisms are of great concern.

High adhesion strength and hybrid irreversible/reversible full-PDMS microfluidic chips.

To the best of our knowledge, this paper outlines for the first time high adhesion and hybrid irreversible/reversible microfluidic devices fully composed of polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS). These chips were fabricated by the sandwich bonding (SWB), a method that was recently deployed by our group. SWB offers simple, fast, and low cost operation requiring only a laboratory oven.

Turbulence in microfluidics: Cleanroom-free, fast, solventless, and bondless fabrication and application in high throughput liquid-liquid extraction.

This paper addresses an important breakthrough in the deployment of ultra-high adhesion strength microfluidic technologies to provide turbulence at harsh flow rate conditions. This paper is only, to our knowledge, the second reporting on the generation of high flow rate-assisted turbulence in microchannels. This flow solves a crucial bottleneck in microfluidics: the generation of high throughput homogeneous mixings.

Self-regenerating and hybrid irreversible/reversible PDMS microfluidic devices.

This paper outlines a straightforward, fast, and low-cost method to fabricate polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) chips. Termed sandwich bonding (SWB), this method requires only a laboratory oven. Initially, SWB relies on the reversible bonding of a coverslip over PDMS channels.

A rapid and simple capillary electrophoresis method for indirect determination of the biocide 2,2-dibromo-3-nitrilo-propionamide (DBNPA) in cooling waters.

A capillary zone electrophoresis (CE) method was developed for the determination of the biocide 2,2-dibromo-3-nitrilo-propionamide (DBNPA) in water used in cooling systems. The biocide is indirectly determined by CE measurement of the concentration of bromide ions produced by the reaction between the DBNPA and bisulfite. The relationship between the bromide peak areas and the DBNPA concentrations showed a good linearity and a coefficient of determination (R²) of 0.

Determination of tetrakis(hydroxymethyl)phosphonium sulfate in commercial formulations and cooling water by capillary electrophoresis with contactless conductivity detection.

A novel capillary electrophoresis method using capacitively coupled contactless conductivity detection is proposed for the determination of the biocide tetrakis(hydroxymethyl)phosphonium sulfate. The feasibility of the electrophoretic separation of this biocide was attributed to the formation of an anionic complex between the biocide and borate ions in the background electrolyte. Evidence of this complex formation was provided by (11) B NMR spectroscopy.