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Toxics, 2022 In the last decade or so, polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) garnered renewed attention in the scientific community due to new evidence pointing at their continued presence in the environment and workplaces and the potential human risks related to their ...
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Persistent Problem: Global Challenges to Managing PCBs
Environmental Science and Technology, 2022 Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), “famous” as persistent organic pollutants (POPs), have been managed nationally since the 1970s and globally under the Stockholm Convention on POPs since 2004, requiring environmentally sound management (ESM) of PCBs by ...
L. Melymuk +7 more
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International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2022 Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) were widely used in industrial and commercial applications, until they were banned in the late 1970s as a result of their significant environmental pollution.
Naffisah Othman +4 more
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Emission characteristics and vapour/particulate phase distributions of PCDD/F in a hazardous waste incinerator under transient conditions [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2018 Polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxin and polychlorinated dibenzofuran (PCDD/F) emission characteristics and vapour/particulate phase partitions under three continued operation conditions, i.e.
Min Li +4 more
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Danube sediment contamination with polychlorinated biphenyls: New interpretation of sediment quality assessment [PDF]
Acta Periodica Technologica, 2019 Among the contaminants of greatest concern, it is still possible to detect in aquatic systems "old" classics such as polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs).
Brborić Maja +3 more
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Organochlorine contamination in sediments collected from a rural-, urban- and industrial-impacted aquatic system (Danube, Serbia) [PDF]
The Holistic Approach to Environment, 2020 The spatial distribution of various organochlorinated compounds (PCBs and ОCPs (DDTs, HCB, and HCHs)) were investigated in sediments of Serbia's stretch of the Danube River.
Maja Brborić +4 more
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Soil and Water Research, 2020 In this study, a typical site that had been contaminated by the chemical industry in the past was selected for investigation. To reveal the pollution status, 18 organochlorine pesticides (OCPs) and seven polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) in the surface ...
Jing Yang +4 more
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Annals of Human Biology, 2021 Many studies of human toxicant exposure examine the hypothesis that human sexual maturation can be affected through endocrine disruption. Within this body of literature there is significant variation in the findings.
Casey N. West +2 more
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Journal of Veterinary Research, 2023 Concentrations of polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins and polychlorinated dibenzofurans (PCDD/Fs) and dioxin-like polychlorinated biphenyls (DL-PCBs) were investigated in six species of bivalve mollusc purchased on the Polish retail market.
Mikołajczyk Szczepan +2 more
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Environmental Science and Technology, 2020 We measured the concentrations of 205 polychlorinated biphenyl (PCB) congeners in 26 food items: beef steak, butter, canned tuna, catfish, cheese, eggs, french fries, fried chicken, ground beef, ground pork, hamburger, hot dog, ice cream, liver, luncheon
Panithi Saktrakulkla +5 more
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