Publications by Benoît Jean Dominique Ferrari

Characterization of tire and road wear particles in experimental biota samples

Florian Frédéric Vincent Breider, Benoît Jean Dominique Ferrari, Thibault Béranger Masset

There is a growing interest in the development of reliable analytical methods for characterizing tire and road wear particles (TRWP). The current research extends the use of single particle analysis techniques to various experimental biota samples. TRWP an ...

Springer Science and Business Media LLC2025

Risk assessment of tire wear in the environmenta - a literature review

Florian Frédéric Vincent Breider, Benoît Jean Dominique Ferrari

Tread wear emission inventories, uncertainty about the future development of the emissions and observed adverse effects of tire constituents in the environment have raised the need for an environmental risk assessment of tire wear emissions. While progress ...

Wiley2025

Risk assessment of tire wear in the environment – a literature review

Florian Frédéric Vincent Breider, Benoît Jean Dominique Ferrari

Tire wear particle emissions in the environment have low risk prioritization. This has been estimated from data on terrestrial and aquatic exposure and hazard. The risk of tire leachables is not yet known due to inconsistency in hazard data. ...

Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)2025

New Data on the Use of Oligochaete Communities for Assessing the Impacts of Wastewater Treatment Plant Effluents on Receiving Streams

Benoît Jean Dominique Ferrari, Régis Lionel Vivien

Negative impacts of human activities on stream ecosystems include the reduction/modification of the connectivity between surface water and groundwater and the contamination of these resources. Vertical hydrological exchanges principally occur through the c ...

MDPI AG2025

Estrogenic, Genotoxic, and Antibacterial Effects of Chemicals from Cryogenically Milled Tire Tread

Florian Frédéric Vincent Breider, Kristin Schirmer, Benoît Jean Dominique Ferrari, Thibault Béranger Masset

Tire and road wear particles (TRWP) contain complex mixtures of chemicals and release them to the environment,and potential toxic effects of these chemicals still need to be characterized. We used a standardized surrogate for TRWP,cryogenically milled tire ...

2024

Evaluation of tire tread particle toxicity to fish using rainbow trout cell lines

Florian Frédéric Vincent Breider, Kristin Schirmer, Benoît Jean Dominique Ferrari, Gabrielle Léger, Thibault Béranger Masset

Tire and road wear particles (TRWP) resulting from tire abrasion while driving raise concerns due to their potential contribution to aquatic toxicity. Our study aimed to assess cryogenically milled tire tread (CMTT) particle toxicity, used as a proxy for T ...

2023

Bioaccessibility of Organic Compounds Associated with Tire Particles Using a Fish In Vitro Digestive Model: Solubilization Kinetics and Effects of Food Coingestion

Dominique Grandjean, Florian Frédéric Vincent Breider, Kristin Schirmer, Luke Christopher Harris, Benoît Jean Dominique Ferrari, Thibault Béranger Masset

Tire and road wear particles (TRWP) account for an important part of the polymer particles released into the environment. There are scientific knowledge gaps as to the potential bioaccessibility of chemicals associated with TRWP to aquatic organisms. This ...

2022

Legacy and alternative halogenated flame retardants in Lake Geneva fish

Benoît Jean Dominique Ferrari

Legacy (i.e., polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs) and hexabromocyclododecane (HBCDD)) and alternative halogenated flame retardants (HFRs) were analyzed in 31 whole fish samples from Lake Geneva in 2018. Two fish species, namely, the burbot (Lota lota) a ...

2021

In Vitro Digestion of Tire Particles in a Fish Model (Oncorhynchus mykiss): Solubilization Kinetics of Heavy Metals and Effects of Food Coingestion

Florian Frédéric Vincent Breider, Kristin Schirmer, Benoît Jean Dominique Ferrari, Thibault Béranger Masset

Tire and road wear particles (TRWP) have been shown to represent a large part of anthropogenic particles released into the environment. Nevertheless, the potential ecological risk of TRWP in the different environmental compartments and their potential toxi ...

2021

In vitro acute toxicity assessment of tire tread particles using rainbow trout cell lines of gill and intestine

Florian Frédéric Vincent Breider, Kristin Schirmer, Benoît Jean Dominique Ferrari, Thibault Béranger Masset

Tire and road wear particles (TRWP) are generated by the abrasion of tires while driving, and recent questions were raised in regards to their potential contribution to microplastics released into the aquatic environment and their potential toxicological i ...

2021

The foreign oligochaete species Quistadrilus multisetosus (Smith, 1900) in Lake Geneva: morphological and molecular characterization and environmental influences on its distribution

Benoît Jean Dominique Ferrari, Régis Lionel Vivien

The presence of the oligochaete species Quistadrilus multisetosus (Smith, 1900) originating from North America has been mentioned for several decades in Europe, the Middle East and Russia. Its distribution and abundance in Europe is still unknown but it ca ...

2020

Effect thresholds of metals in stream sediments based on in situ oligochaete communities

Maria del Carmen Casado Martinez, Benoît Jean Dominique Ferrari, Régis Lionel Vivien

Aquatic oligochaetes, comprising a large number of species showing various degrees of resistance to chemical pollution, are recognized as valuable bioindicators of sediments’ quality. In the Geneva area (Switzerland), oligochaete tools were previously test ...

2020

High-throughput DNA barcoding of oligochaetes for abundance-based indices to assess the biological quality of sediments in streams and lakes

Benoît Jean Dominique Ferrari, Régis Lionel Vivien

Aquatic oligochaete communities are valuable indicators of the biological quality of sediments in streams and lakes, but identification of specimens to the species level based on morphological features requires solid expertise in taxonomy and is possible o ...

Nature Research2020

Assessment of abundance and community composition of benthic macroinvertebrates: recommendations for improved sampling, fixation and extraction of oligochaetes

Benoît Jean Dominique Ferrari, Régis Lionel Vivien

For several decades, the abundance and community structure of benthic macroinvertebrates have been studied to assess the biological quality of aquatic ecosystems. Procedures aiming at studying the whole of macroinvertebrate communities were mainly designed ...

2020

Towards simple tools to assess functional effects of contaminants on natural microbial and invertebrate sediment communities

Sophie Campiche, Maria del Carmen Casado Martinez, Benoît Jean Dominique Ferrari

Surface sediments can accumulate contaminants that affect microorganisms and invertebrates and disturb benthic ecological functions. However, effects of contaminants on ecological functions supported by sediment communities are understudied. Here, we teste ...

SPRINGER HEIDELBERG2020

Refining uptake and depuration constants for fluoroalkyl chemicals in Chironomus riparius larvae on the basis of experimental results and modelling

Benoît Jean Dominique Ferrari

2018

Development of a new ecotoxicological assay using the testate amoeba Euglypha rotunda (Rhizaria; Euglyphida) and assessment of the impact of the herbicide S-metolachlor

Edward Mitchell, Benoît Jean Dominique Ferrari

Elsevier2018

Prioritization of substances for national ambient monitoring of sediment in Switzerland

Maria del Carmen Casado Martinez, Benoît Jean Dominique Ferrari

2018

Surveillance de la qualité des sédiments en Suisse - État actuel des méthodes disponibles et mise en place de recommandations

Nathalie Chèvre Rossi, Luca Rossi, Luiz Felippe De Alencastro, Sophie Campiche, Benoît Jean Dominique Ferrari

Le sédiment constitue un compartiment dynamique et essentiel dans les écosystèmes aquatiques.Il joue un rôle important pour de nombreux animaux et végétaux en tant qu’habitat ou site de ponte. Cependant, il présente la caractéristique d’adsorber des pollua ...

2012