PMID- 22137935
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20120517
LR  - 20121115
IS  - 1879-3363 (Electronic)
IS  - 0025-326X (Linking)
VI  - 64
IP  - 2
DP  - 2012 Feb
TI  - Measurement of persistent organic pollutants (POPs) in plastic resin pellets from 
      remote islands: toward establishment of background concentrations for 
      International Pellet Watch.
PG  - 445-8
LID - 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2011.11.004 [doi]
AB  - Plastic resin pellets collected from remote islands in the Pacific, Atlantic, and 
      Indian Oceans and the Caribbean Sea were analyzed for polychlorinated biphenyls 
      (PCBs), dichloro-diphenyltrichloroethane and its degradation products (DDTs), and 
      hexachlorocyclohexanes (HCHs). Concentrations of PCBs (sum of 13 congeners) in 
      the pellets were 0.1-9.9 ng/g-pellet. These were 1-3 orders of magnitude smaller 
      than those observed in pellets from industrialized coastal shores. Concentrations 
      of DDTs in the pellets were 0.8-4.1 ng/g-pellet. HCH concentrations were 0.6-1.7 
      ng/g-pellet, except for 19.3 ng/g-pellet on St. Helena, where current use of 
      lindane is likely influence. This study provides background levels of POPs 
      (PCBs<10 ng/g-pellet, DDTs <4 ng/g-pellet, HCHs <2 ng/g-pellet) for International 
      Pellet Watch. Sporadic large concentrations of POPs were found in some pellet 
      samples from remote islands and should be considered in future assessments of 
      pollutants on plastic debris.
CI  - Copyright (c) 2011 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
FAU - Heskett, Marvin
AU  - Heskett M
AD  - Surfrider Foundation, Oahu, HI, USA.
FAU - Takada, Hideshige
AU  - Takada H
FAU - Yamashita, Rei
AU  - Yamashita R
FAU - Yuyama, Masaki
AU  - Yuyama M
FAU - Ito, Maki
AU  - Ito M
FAU - Geok, Yeo Bee
AU  - Geok YB
FAU - Ogata, Yuko
AU  - Ogata Y
FAU - Kwan, Charita
AU  - Kwan C
FAU - Heckhausen, Angelika
AU  - Heckhausen A
FAU - Taylor, Heidi
AU  - Taylor H
FAU - Powell, Taj
AU  - Powell T
FAU - Morishige, Carey
AU  - Morishige C
FAU - Young, Doug
AU  - Young D
FAU - Patterson, Hugh
AU  - Patterson H
FAU - Robertson, Bryson
AU  - Robertson B
FAU - Bailey, Elizabeth
AU  - Bailey E
FAU - Mermoz, Jorge
AU  - Mermoz J
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PT  - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
DEP - 20111203
PL  - England
TA  - Mar Pollut Bull
JT  - Marine pollution bulletin
JID - 0260231
RN  - 0 (Plastics)
RN  - 0 (Water Pollutants, Chemical)
SB  - IM
MH  - *Environmental Monitoring
MH  - Geography
MH  - Oceans and Seas
MH  - Plastics/*chemistry
MH  - Water Pollutants, Chemical/*analysis
EDAT- 2011/12/06 06:00
MHDA- 2012/05/18 06:00
CRDT- 2011/12/06 06:00
PHST- 2011/09/12 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2011/11/05 00:00 [revised]
PHST- 2011/11/06 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2011/12/06 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2011/12/06 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2012/05/18 06:00 [medline]
AID - S0025-326X(11)00596-0 [pii]
AID - 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2011.11.004 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Mar Pollut Bull. 2012 Feb;64(2):445-8. doi: 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2011.11.004. Epub 
      2011 Dec 3.