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Public Health Burden of E-waste in Africa

open access: yesJournal of Health and Pollution, 2019
Background. Environmental impacts from informal e-waste recycling are increasing in Africa. E-waste handling and disposal exposes people to highly toxic cocktails of heavy metals, brominated flame retardants, non-dioxin-like polychlorinated biphenyls ...
Orish Ebere Orisakwe   +3 more
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Polychlorinated Biphenyls, Polybrominated Biphenyls, Polychlorinated Dibenzo- p -dioxins, and Polychlorinated Dibenzofurans

open access: yes, 2017
Prasada Rao S. Kodavanti   +4 more
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Monitoring organochlorine pesticides and polychlorinated biphenyls in Baiyangdian Lake using microbial communities

open access: yes, 2005
We used polyurethane foam units (PFUs) to collect persistent organic pollutants (POPs) from four sites in Baiyangdian Lake in July 2003. Following extraction from the PFUs, relative concentrations of seven organochlorine pesticides (OCPs) and ten ...
Wang, XH   +4 more
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The toxicology of polychlorinated biphenyls [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Charles University in Prague Faculty of Pharmacy in Hradec Králové Department of Pharmacology & Toxicology Radka Janušová Supervisor: PharmDr. Marie Vopršalová, CSc.
Janušová, Radka
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The assessment of sdw landfill impact on pcb soil pollution (in terms of ”Zhiroshkino” SDW landfill in Domodedovo district)

open access: yesRUDN Journal of Ecology and Life Safety, 2013
Below there are given the measurement results of polychlorinated biphenyls concentration in the soils at a different distance from the solid domestic waste landfill “Zhiroshkino”.
U I Baeva, M A Ostapenko
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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

open access: yes, 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   +6 more
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PCB (Aroclor 1242) mobility in soil as affected by various solvents

open access: yes, 1990
For the past several decades, industry has filled lagoons and landfills with significant quantities of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs). Other wastes such as carbon tetrachloride and various alcohols have mixed with PCBs. Soil columns spiked with Aroclor
Hayes, Jennifer Marie
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Dehalogenation of Polychlorinated Biphenyls

open access: yes, 2005
This work deals with the determination of the thermodynamic stability of di- to nona-chlorinated biphenyls during the dehalogenation process of these compounds in the gas phase by steam in presence of solid copper.
Bureš, M.
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