PMID- 16814386
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20070109
LR  - 20060731
IS  - 0160-4120 (Print)
IS  - 0160-4120 (Linking)
VI  - 32
IP  - 7
DP  - 2006 Sep
TI  - Chlorinated paraffins: a review of analysis and environmental occurrence.
PG  - 915-29
AB  - Chlorinated paraffins (CPs), as technical mixtures of polychlorinated alkanes 
      (PCAs), are ubiquitous in the environment. CPs tend to behave in a similar way to 
      persistent organic pollutants (POPs), leading several countries to impose 
      regulations on the use of CPs. In this article, we review the literature on the 
      properties of CPs, the current analytical tools available to determine CPs in 
      various types of environmental matrices, and concentrations found in the 
      environment. In particular, concentrations of CPs in environmental compartments 
      including air, water, sediments, biota, human food products and human tissues are 
      summarized. Priorities for future research are: improvements in analytical 
      methodologies (reducing the complexity of the analysis, producing reference 
      materials and performing interlaboratory studies); determining background levels 
      of chlorinated paraffins in the environment and human populations (this question 
      should be answered using quality assured analytical tools allowing the 
      intercomparison of data); and investigating the sources of CPs to the environment 
      and to humans.
FAU - Bayen, Stephane
AU  - Bayen S
AD  - Departement de Chimie Minerale, Analytique et Appliquee, Universite de Geneve, 
      Quai Ernest Ansermet, Switzerland. stephane.bayen@cabe.unige.ch
FAU - Obbard, Jeffrey Philip
AU  - Obbard JP
FAU - Thomas, Gareth O
AU  - Thomas GO
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PT  - Review
DEP - 20060630
PL  - Netherlands
TA  - Environ Int
JT  - Environment international
JID - 7807270
RN  - 0 (Environmental Pollutants)
RN  - 0 (Hydrocarbons, Chlorinated)
RN  - 8002-74-2 (Paraffin)
SB  - IM
MH  - Animals
MH  - Biodiversity
MH  - Environmental Monitoring/*methods
MH  - Environmental Pollutants/*analysis/chemistry
MH  - Food
MH  - Humans
MH  - Hydrocarbons, Chlorinated/*analysis/chemistry
MH  - Paraffin/analysis/*chemistry
MH  - Principal Component Analysis/methods
MH  - Quality Control
MH  - Tissue Distribution
RF  - 98
EDAT- 2006/07/04 09:00
MHDA- 2007/01/11 09:00
CRDT- 2006/07/04 09:00
PHST- 2005/12/20 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2006/05/17 00:00 [revised]
PHST- 2006/05/17 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2006/07/04 09:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2007/01/11 09:00 [medline]
PHST- 2006/07/04 09:00 [entrez]
AID - S0160-4120(06)00074-2 [pii]
AID - 10.1016/j.envint.2006.05.009 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Environ Int. 2006 Sep;32(7):915-29. doi: 10.1016/j.envint.2006.05.009. Epub 2006 
      Jun 30.