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Organic food consumers’ trade-offs between local or imported, conventional or organic products: a qualitative study in Shanghai [PDF]
, 2011 This paper presents a qualitative study of the trade-offs made by organic food product consumers in the Chinese Metropolis of Shanghai. More precisely, this article deals with trade-offs that consumers make between three types of products: (1) locally ...
Kledal, Paul Rye +2 more
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Benzimidazoles and Plants: Uptake, Transformation and Effect
Toxics, 2022 In recent years, there has been increasing concern over the environmental risks of the so called “Emerging pollutants (EPs)” that are defined as synthetic or naturally occurring chemicals that are not commonly monitored in the environment but which have ...
Radka Podlipná
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Chemicals of emerging concern in coastal aquifers: Assessment along the land-ocean interface
Journal of Hazardous Materials, 2023 Submarine Groundwater Discharge (SGD) is recognized as a relevant source of pollutants to the sea, but little is known about its relevance as a source of chemicals of emerging concern (CECs). Here, both the presence and distribution of a wide range of CECs have been evaluated in the most comprehensive manner to date, in a well-characterized ...
Daniel Gutiérrez-Martín +7 more
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Phthalate esters: occurrence, toxicity, bioremediation, and advanced oxidation processes
Water Science and Technology, 2023 Phthalic acid esters are emerging pollutants, commonly used as plasticizers that are categorized as hazardous endocrine-disrupting chemicals (EDCs). A rise in anthropogenic activities leads to an increase in phthalate concentration in the environment ...
Madhu Kumari, Mrudula Pulimi
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Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety, 2023 Little information is available on how the types, concentrations, and distribution of chemicals have evolved over the years. The objective of the present study is therefore to review the spatial and temporal distribution profile of emerging contaminants ...
Ying Long +5 more
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Epigenetic Effects of Polybrominated Diphenyl Ethers on Human Health. [PDF]
, 2019 Disruption of epigenetic regulation by environmental toxins is an emerging area of focus for understanding the latter's impact on human health. Polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs), one such group of toxins, are an environmentally pervasive class of ...
Poston, Robert G, Saha, Ramendra N
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Applied Sciences, 2021 Active chemicals are among the contaminants of emerging concern that are rarely covered in regulatory documents in sub-Saharan Africa. These substances are neither in the list of routinely monitored substances nor in the guidelines for routine ...
Asha S. Ripanda +5 more
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Domain-based perceptions of risk:a case study of lay and technical community attitudes towards managed aquifer recharge [PDF]
, 2013 Despite growing water scarcity, communities in many parts of the developed world often reject technically and economically sound options for water augmentation.
Addams +64 more
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A risk based assessment approach for chemical mixtures from wastewater treatment plant effluents
Environment International, 2022 In this study, 56 effluent samples from 52 European wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) were investigated for the occurrence of 499 emerging chemicals (ECs) and their associated potential risks to the environment.
Saskia Finckh +11 more
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Organic food: what we know (and do not know) about consumers [PDF]
, 2010 This paper reports on the latest contributions to over 20 years of research on organic food consumers. There is a general consensus in the literature on the reasons why people buy organic food.
Burton +7 more
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