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Insights into polybrominated diphenyl ethers: occurrence, sources, and exposure health risk in selected solid waste impacted soils

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Onoriode O. Emoyan et al. View all

Issue 4

Solid Waste Management

The Coordinated management of solid waste dumps from different anthropogenic environments is important for pollution management of immediate and adjacent ecosystems. This study took three soil profile samples from three functional zones: the rural, the suburban, and the urban solid waste dumps. The...

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The California biomonitoring program: persistent organic pollutants in archived and contemporary serum

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Petreas M., Park J.S., Wang M., Wang Y., Guo W., Tarrant A., Rhee A. and Harwani S.

Issue 1

General

In 2006, California passed legislation establishing the first State Biomonitoring Program in the USA. The main goals are to: 1) Determine levels of environmental chemical contaminants in a representative sample of Californians; 2) Establish trends in the levels of these chemicals over time; 3)...

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Polybrominated diphenyl ethers in humans - sources and exposure

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Kalantzi O.I. and Siskos P.

Issue 2

General

Polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs) are a class of widely used flame retardants that are incorporated into a wide range of consumer products such as household appliances, plastics, textiles and computers, to prevent fire. They were first introduced in the environment in the 1970s and their...

polybrominated diphenyl ethers environmental levels +2 more
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