PMID- 22472101
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20120827
LR  - 20161125
IS  - 1879-1298 (Electronic)
IS  - 0045-6535 (Linking)
VI  - 88
IP  - 3
DP  - 2012 Jul
TI  - Temporal trends (2005-2009) of PCDD/Fs, PCBs, PBDEs in rice hulls from an e-waste 
      dismantling area after stricter environmental regulations.
PG  - 330-5
LID - 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2012.03.006 [doi]
AB  - Primitive e-waste dismantling activities have been of increasing concern due to 
      serious environmental and human health problems, and therefore authorities in 
      China have strengthened the regulations on illegal e-waste recycling activities. 
      In this work, we used rice hull as a passive sampler and investigated temporal 
      trends of polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins and dibenzofurans (PCDD/Fs), 
      polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs) in areas 
      near e-waste recycling sites after the stricter regulations. Furthermore, the 
      distribution patterns and composition profiles of these contaminants were also 
      discussed. The average concentrations of the three groups of persistent organic 
      pollutants (POPs) in rice hulls have markedly decreased during the period of 
      2005-2009. Specifically, from 12.9 (average value in 2005) to 0.37 pg WHO-TEQ/g 
      (dry weight, dw) (in 2009) for PCDD/Fs, 47.6 (2005) to 7.10 ng g(-1)dw (2009) for 
      PCBs, and 2.51 (2005) to 0.89 ng g(-1), dw (2009) for PBDEs. The significant 
      decrease of combustion markers 2,3,4,7,8-PeCDF, 1,2,3,6,7,8HxCDF and PCB126, and 
      the PCDD/PCDF ratio from 1:9 (2005) to 7:3 (2009) is likely a result of stricter 
      regulations on open combustion activities. This study suggests that stricter 
      control measures, strengthened laws and regulations and more environmental 
      friendly techniques could be effective measures in reducing the release and 
      formation of related POPs in typical e-waste dismantling sites, and these 
      measures could further improve the quality of the environment and health of the 
      local inhabitants.
CI  - Copyright (c) 2012 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
FAU - Fu, Jianjie
AU  - Fu J
AD  - State Key Laboratory of Environmental Chemistry and Ecotoxicology, Research 
      Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 
      China.
FAU - Wang, Thanh
AU  - Wang T
FAU - Wang, Pu
AU  - Wang P
FAU - Qu, Guangbo
AU  - Qu G
FAU - Wang, Yawei
AU  - Wang Y
FAU - Zhang, Qinghua
AU  - Zhang Q
FAU - Zhang, Aiqian
AU  - Zhang A
FAU - Jiang, Guibin
AU  - Jiang G
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PT  - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
DEP - 20120401
PL  - England
TA  - Chemosphere
JT  - Chemosphere
JID - 0320657
RN  - 0 (Air Pollutants)
RN  - 0 (Benzofurans)
RN  - 0 (Dibenzofurans, Polychlorinated)
RN  - 0 (Halogenated Diphenyl Ethers)
RN  - 0 (Polychlorinated Dibenzodioxins)
RN  - DFC2HB4I0K (Polychlorinated Biphenyls)
SB  - IM
MH  - Air Pollutants/*analysis
MH  - Benzofurans/*analysis
MH  - China
MH  - Dibenzofurans, Polychlorinated
MH  - Environmental Monitoring
MH  - Halogenated Diphenyl Ethers/*analysis
MH  - Oryza/*metabolism
MH  - Polychlorinated Biphenyls/*analysis
MH  - Polychlorinated Dibenzodioxins/*analogs & derivatives/analysis
EDAT- 2012/04/05 06:00
MHDA- 2012/08/28 06:00
CRDT- 2012/04/05 06:00
PHST- 2011/10/05 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2012/02/27 00:00 [revised]
PHST- 2012/03/03 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2012/04/05 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2012/04/05 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2012/08/28 06:00 [medline]
AID - S0045-6535(12)00320-7 [pii]
AID - 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2012.03.006 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Chemosphere. 2012 Jul;88(3):330-5. doi: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2012.03.006. Epub 
      2012 Apr 1.