PMID- 23245873
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20140414
LR  - 20181202
IS  - 1879-1026 (Electronic)
IS  - 0048-9697 (Linking)
VI  - 463-464
DP  - 2013 Oct 1
TI  - A review of environmental and human exposure to persistent organic pollutants in 
      the Pearl River Delta, South China.
PG  - 1093-110
LID - S0048-9697(12)01404-0 [pii]
LID - 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2012.10.104 [doi]
AB  - Rapid economic growth in South China (including Guangdong Province, Hong Kong, 
      and Macau), particularly within the Pearl River Delta region, has resulted in 
      severe pollution of the natural eco-environment in the last three decades. Large 
      amounts of monitoring data on organic pollution in the Pearl River Delta have 
      been accumulated, which allows us to conduct a fairly comprehensive assessment of 
      the state of the Pearl River Delta and elucidate spatial and temporal patterns of 
      pollution on a regional scale. Of various causes for environmental deterioration, 
      negative impact from persistent organic pollutants (POPs) is a global concern. 
      This review examines the current levels and distribution patterns of several 
      POPs, namely DDT (and its metabolites DDD and DDE), hexachlorocyclohexanes, and 
      polybrominated diphenyl ethers, in various environmental compartments of South 
      China. The general information on environmental occurrence, regional behaviors, 
      ecological effects, and human exposure of these POPs in this region are reviewed.
CI  - Copyright (c) 2012 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
FAU - Zhang, Kai
AU  - Zhang K
AD  - State Key Laboratory of Organic Geochemistry, Guangzhou Institute of 
      Geochemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou 510640, China; University of 
      Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China.
FAU - Wei, Yan-Li
AU  - Wei YL
FAU - Zeng, Eddy Y
AU  - Zeng EY
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PT  - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
PT  - Review
DEP - 20121211
PL  - Netherlands
TA  - Sci Total Environ
JT  - The Science of the total environment
JID - 0330500
RN  - 0 (Halogenated Diphenyl Ethers)
RN  - 0 (Water Pollutants, Chemical)
RN  - 59NEE7PCAB (Hexachlorocyclohexane)
RN  - CIW5S16655 (DDT)
SB  - IM
MH  - China
MH  - DDT/adverse effects/analysis
MH  - Environmental Exposure/adverse effects/*analysis
MH  - Halogenated Diphenyl Ethers/adverse effects/analysis
MH  - Hexachlorocyclohexane/adverse effects/analysis
MH  - Humans
MH  - Rivers/*chemistry
MH  - Water Pollutants, Chemical/adverse effects/*analysis
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - Bioaccumulation
OT  - Ecological risk
OT  - Environmental occurrence
OT  - Human health implications
OT  - Pearl River Delta
OT  - Persistent organic pollutants
EDAT- 2012/12/19 06:00
MHDA- 2014/04/15 06:00
CRDT- 2012/12/19 06:00
PHST- 2012/03/07 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2012/10/31 00:00 [revised]
PHST- 2012/10/31 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2012/12/19 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2012/12/19 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2014/04/15 06:00 [medline]
AID - S0048-9697(12)01404-0 [pii]
AID - 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2012.10.104 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Sci Total Environ. 2013 Oct 1;463-464:1093-110. doi: 
      10.1016/j.scitotenv.2012.10.104. Epub 2012 Dec 11.