PMID- 21035239
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20110404
LR  - 20191210
IS  - 1873-6424 (Electronic)
IS  - 0269-7491 (Linking)
VI  - 159
IP  - 2
DP  - 2011 Feb
TI  - Assessing seasonal and spatial trends of persistent organic pollutants (POPs) in 
      Indian agricultural regions using PUF disk passive air samplers.
PG  - 646-53
LID - 10.1016/j.envpol.2010.09.025 [doi]
AB  - The first survey of persistent organic pollutant (POP) concentrations in air 
      across several Indian agricultural regions was conducted in 2006-2007. Passive 
      samplers comprising polyurethane foam (PUF) disks were deployed on a quarterly 
      basis at seven stations in agricultural regions, one urban site and one 
      background site. The project was conducted as a sub-project of the Global 
      Atmospheric Passive Sampling (GAPS) Network. In addition to revealing new 
      information on air concentrations of several organochlorine pesticides (OCPs) and 
      polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), the study has demonstrated the feasibility of 
      conducting regional-scale monitoring for POPs in India using PUF disk samplers. 
      The following analytes were detected with relatively high concentrations in air 
      (mean for 2006 and 2007, pg/m(3)): alpha- and gamma-hexachlorocyclohexane (HCH) (292 and 
      812, respectively); endosulfan I and II (2770 and 902, respectively); p,p'-DDE 
      and p,p'-DDT (247 and 931, respectively); and for the sum of 48 PCBs, 12,100 
      (including a site with extremely high air concentrations in 2007) and 972 (when 
      excluding data for this site).
CI  - Crown Copyright (c) 2010. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
FAU - Pozo, Karla
AU  - Pozo K
AD  - Atmospheric Science & Technology Directorate, Environment Canada, 4905 Dufferin 
      Street, Toronto, Ontario M3H 5T4, Canada.
FAU - Harner, Tom
AU  - Harner T
FAU - Lee, Sum Chi
AU  - Lee SC
FAU - Sinha, Ravindra K
AU  - Sinha RK
FAU - Sengupta, B
AU  - Sengupta B
FAU - Loewen, Mark
AU  - Loewen M
FAU - Geethalakshmi, V
AU  - Geethalakshmi V
FAU - Kannan, Kurunthachalam
AU  - Kannan K
FAU - Volpi, Valerio
AU  - Volpi V
LA  - eng
PT  - Evaluation Study
PT  - Journal Article
DEP - 20101028
PL  - England
TA  - Environ Pollut
JT  - Environmental pollution (Barking, Essex : 1987)
JID - 8804476
RN  - 0 (Air Pollutants)
RN  - 0 (Hydrocarbons, Chlorinated)
RN  - 0 (Pesticides)
RN  - 0 (Polyurethanes)
RN  - 9009-54-5 (polyurethane foam)
RN  - DFC2HB4I0K (Polychlorinated Biphenyls)
SB  - IM
MH  - Adsorption
MH  - Agriculture
MH  - Air Pollutants/*analysis
MH  - Air Pollution
MH  - Environmental Monitoring/instrumentation/*methods
MH  - Hydrocarbons, Chlorinated/analysis
MH  - India
MH  - Pesticides/*analysis
MH  - Polychlorinated Biphenyls/analysis
MH  - Polyurethanes/chemistry
MH  - Seasons
EDAT- 2010/11/03 06:00
MHDA- 2011/04/05 06:00
CRDT- 2010/11/02 06:00
PHST- 2010/07/19 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2010/09/15 00:00 [revised]
PHST- 2010/09/17 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2010/11/02 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2010/11/03 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2011/04/05 06:00 [medline]
AID - S0269-7491(10)00430-6 [pii]
AID - 10.1016/j.envpol.2010.09.025 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Environ Pollut. 2011 Feb;159(2):646-53. doi: 10.1016/j.envpol.2010.09.025. Epub 
      2010 Oct 28.