PMID- 19890552
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20100201
LR  - 20091105
IS  - 1464-0333 (Electronic)
IS  - 1464-0325 (Linking)
VI  - 11
IP  - 11
DP  - 2009 Nov
TI  - Monitoring of persistent organic pollutants in Africa. Part 1: passive air 
      sampling across the continent in 2008.
PG  - 1952-63
LID - 10.1039/b913415h [doi]
AB  - A 6-month air sampling survey was conducted at 26 sites across the African 
      continent with the aim to establish baseline information on contamination of 
      ambient air with persistent organic pollutants (POPs) as a reference for future 
      monitoring programs in the region. Sampling sites included continental, rural and 
      urban backgrounds, agricultural and industrial sites as well as waste and 
      obsolete pesticide dumps. Concentrations of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, 
      polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins and furans, polychlorinated biphenyls and 
      organochlorine pesticides were low at most of the rural background sites, but 
      they raise some concern in big cities. The large temporal variability in the 
      pesticide concentrations suggested seasonal application of gamma-HCHs and 
      endosulfans; levels of p,p'-DDT were often much higher than those of p,p'-DDE and 
      indicated recent application of DDT.
FAU - Klanova, J
AU  - Klanova J
AD  - RECETOX, Faculty of Science, Masaryk University, Kamenice 126/3, 625 00, Brno, 
      Czech Republic. klanova@recetox.muni.cz
FAU - Cupr, P
AU  - Cupr P
FAU - Holoubek, I
AU  - Holoubek I
FAU - Boruvkova, J
AU  - Boruvkova J
FAU - Pribylova, P
AU  - Pribylova P
FAU - Kares, R
AU  - Kares R
FAU - Tomsej, T
AU  - Tomsej T
FAU - Ocelka, T
AU  - Ocelka T
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PT  - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
DEP - 20090925
PL  - England
TA  - J Environ Monit
JT  - Journal of environmental monitoring : JEM
JID - 100968688
RN  - 0 (Environmental Pollutants)
RN  - 0 (Organic Chemicals)
RN  - 0 (Pesticide Residues)
SB  - IM
MH  - Africa
MH  - Air Pollution/*analysis
MH  - *Environmental Monitoring
MH  - Environmental Pollutants/*analysis
MH  - Organic Chemicals/*analysis
MH  - Pesticide Residues/*analysis
MH  - Rural Population
MH  - Seasons
MH  - Urban Population
EDAT- 2009/11/06 06:00
MHDA- 2010/02/02 06:00
CRDT- 2009/11/06 06:00
PHST- 2009/11/06 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2009/11/06 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2010/02/02 06:00 [medline]
AID - 10.1039/b913415h [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - J Environ Monit. 2009 Nov;11(11):1952-63. doi: 10.1039/b913415h. Epub 2009 Sep 
      25.