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Polychlorinated biphenyls, DDT, polybrominated diphenyl ethers and organic pesticides in United Kingdom harbor seals - mixed exposures and thyroid homeostasis

, 2007
Polychlorinated biphenyls, DDT and its metabolites, polybrominated diphenyl ethers, and selected organochlorine pesticide concentrations were measured in blubber samples from 60 free-living harbor seals in 2003 from five sites around the United Kingdom ...
Hall, Ailsa Jane, Thomas, G O
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GAS-PARTICLE PARTITIONING OF POPS IN URBAN AIR FROM MADRID

Avances en Ciencias e Ingeniería, 2014
In present work the presence of several Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) in ambient air samples from the city of Madrid (Spain) was evaluated, discriminating between gas phase (FG) and suspended particulate matter (MPS).
Beatriz Barbas, Adrián de la Torre, Paloma Sanz, Irene Navarro, Begoña Artíñano, María Á. Martínez   +5 more
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Research progress on the removal of emerging contaminants from water by adsorption

Gongye shui chuli
With the development of industry and agriculture and the improvement of living standards, a variety of emerging contaminants continue to be released into the environment.
CHEN Qianqian, SUN Bingbing, YAN Shuaiteng, DANG Yao, LI Xin, DING Ping, HU Guocheng   +6 more
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Soil-Air exchange controls on background atmospheric concentrations of organochlorine pesticides [PDF]

, 2011
Soils are the major terrestrial reservoir of persistent organic pollutants, and thus net volatilization from soil, when it happens, may exert a control on the atmospheric occurrence and variability of organic pollutants.
Dachs, J., Jones, Kevin, Barceló, D., Cabrerizo, A.   +3 more
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Polybrominated biphenyl exposure and thyroid function tests in electronic waste dismantling and general population of Chinese adults

Emerging Contaminants
This study aimed to determine the concentration of 35 PBB (polybrominated biphenyls) congeners in the human serum of residents from an electronic waste (e-waste) dismantling area compared to a control area in China.
Shijie Wang, Jingxi Jin, Zhitong Zhang, Chen Guo, Zhigang Li, Jicheng Hu, Ying Wang, Yongjie Wei, Jun Jin   +8 more
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BREAST-MILK MONITORING TO MEASURE MICHIGAN'S CONTAMINATION WITH POLYBROMINATED BIPHENYLS

, 1978
In 1973 and 1974, several thousand Michigan dairy farms were contaminated by polybrominated biphenyls (P.B.B.) as the result of an industrial accident. An unknown quantity of contaminated meat and dairy products entered the food chain before contaminated
Wilcox, Kenneth R., Bloomer, Arthur W., Brilliant, Lawrence B., Humphrey, Harold E. B., Van Amburg, George, Price, Harold, Isbister, John, Eyster, Janet   +7 more
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Sociodemographic and Lifestyle Factors Associated with Historical Exposure to Persistent Flame Retardant Concentrations in a Spanish Cohort

Applied Sciences
The aim of this study was to estimate the historical exposure to a selection of polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs) and Dechlorane Plus (DP) concentrations and to identify the potential sociodemographic and lifestyle factors associated with this ...
Eduardo Linares-Ruiz, Celia Pérez-Díaz, Francisco M. Pérez-Carrascosa, Sara Gonzalez, Juan José Ramos, Inmaculada Salcedo-Bellido, Juan Pedro Arrebola   +6 more
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Preliminary hazard assessment of polychlorinated biphenyls, polybrominated diphenyl ethers, and polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins and dibenzofurans to Yangtze finless porpoise in Dongting Lake, China

, 2008
Yangtze finless porpoise (Neophocaena phocaenoides asiaeorientalis), a protected endangered species, is the sole freshwater subspecies of finless porpoise, living only in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River, China, and its appended lakes ...
Zhang, Qinghua, Wang, Yawei, Xu, Ying, Wang, Ding, Xu, Y, Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Hydrobiol, State Key Lab Freshwater Ecol & Biotechnol, Wuhan 430072, Peoples R China, Jiang, Guibin, Yang, Fangxing   +6 more
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Certain Brominated Flame Retardants - Polybrominated Diphenylethers, Polybrominated Biphenyls, Hexabromo Cyclododecane

, 2008
Brominated flame retardants are a diverse group of chemicals, whose common points are that they all contain bromine and are all use to retard the combustibility of commercial goods.

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Dietary and Socio-Demographic Determinants of Serum Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) Levels in Pregnant Women in Tehran

Journal of Family and Reproductive Health, 2016
Objective: To determine the levels of Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) and Polybrominateddiphenyl ethers (PBDEs) as persistent organic pollutants (POPs) in serum of primiparous women at the third trimester of pregnancy and identify the main determinants ...
Bita Eslami, Batool Hossein Rashidi, Kazem Naddafi, Noushin Rastkari, Abolghasem Djazayeri, Hossein Malekafzali   +5 more
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