PMID- 25592874
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20151009
LR  - 20181202
IS  - 2050-7895 (Electronic)
IS  - 2050-7887 (Linking)
VI  - 17
IP  - 3
DP  - 2015 Mar
TI  - Spatial distribution of selected persistent organic pollutants (POPs) in 
      Australia's atmosphere.
PG  - 525-32
LID - 10.1039/c4em00594e [doi]
AB  - A nation-wide passive air sampling campaign recorded concentrations of persistent 
      organic pollutants in Australia's atmosphere in 2012. XAD-based passive air 
      samplers were deployed for one year at 15 sampling sites located in 
      remote/background, agricultural and semi-urban and urban areas across the 
      continent. Concentrations of 47 polychlorinated biphenyls ranged from 0.73 to 72 
      pg m(-3) (median of 8.9 pg m(-3)) and were consistently higher at urban sites. 
      The toxic equivalent concentration for the sum of 12 dioxin-like PCBs was low, 
      ranging from below detection limits to 0.24 fg m(-3) (median of 0.0086 fg m(-3)). 
      Overall, the levels of polychlorinated biphenyls in Australia were among the 
      lowest reported globally to date. Among the organochlorine pesticides, 
      hexachlorobenzene had the highest (median of 41 pg m(-3)) and most uniform 
      concentration (with a ratio between highest and lowest value  approximately 5). Bushfires may 
      be responsible for atmospheric hexachlorobenzene levels in Australia that 
      exceeded Southern Hemispheric baseline levels by a factor of  approximately 4. Organochlorine 
      pesticide concentrations generally increased from remote/background and 
      agricultural sites to urban sites, except for high concentrations of alpha-endosulfan 
      and DDTs at specific agricultural sites. Concentrations of heptachlor (0.47-210 
      pg m(-3)), dieldrin (ND-160 pg m(-3)) and trans- and cis-chlordanes (0.83-180 pg 
      m(-3), sum of) in Australian air were among the highest reported globally to 
      date, whereas those of DDT and its metabolites (ND-160 pg m(-3), sum of), alpha-, beta-, 
      gamma- and delta-hexachlorocyclohexane (ND-6.7 pg m(-3), sum of) and alpha-endosulfan (ND-27 
      pg m(-3)) were among the lowest.
FAU - Wang, Xianyu
AU  - Wang X
AD  - National Research Centre for Environmental Toxicology, The University of 
      Queensland, 39 Kessels Road, Coopers Plains, QLD 4108, Australia. 
      x.wang18@uq.edu.au.
FAU - Kennedy, Karen
AU  - Kennedy K
FAU - Powell, Jennifer
AU  - Powell J
FAU - Keywood, Melita
AU  - Keywood M
FAU - Gillett, Rob
AU  - Gillett R
FAU - Thai, Phong
AU  - Thai P
FAU - Bridgen, Phil
AU  - Bridgen P
FAU - Broomhall, Sara
AU  - Broomhall S
FAU - Paxman, Chris
AU  - Paxman C
FAU - Wania, Frank
AU  - Wania F
FAU - Mueller, Jochen F
AU  - Mueller JF
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PT  - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
PL  - England
TA  - Environ Sci Process Impacts
JT  - Environmental science. Processes & impacts
JID - 101601576
RN  - 0 (Air Pollutants)
RN  - 0 (Hydrocarbons, Chlorinated)
RN  - 0 (Pesticides)
RN  - 319-86-8 (delta-hexachlorocyclohexane)
RN  - 59NEE7PCAB (Hexachlorocyclohexane)
RN  - DFC2HB4I0K (Polychlorinated Biphenyls)
RN  - OKA6A6ZD4K (Endosulfan)
SB  - IM
MH  - Air Pollutants/*analysis
MH  - Air Pollution/statistics & numerical data
MH  - Atmosphere/*chemistry
MH  - Australia
MH  - Endosulfan
MH  - *Environmental Monitoring
MH  - Hexachlorocyclohexane
MH  - Hydrocarbons, Chlorinated/analysis
MH  - Pesticides/analysis
MH  - Polychlorinated Biphenyls/analysis
EDAT- 2015/01/17 06:00
MHDA- 2015/10/10 06:00
CRDT- 2015/01/17 06:00
PHST- 2015/01/17 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2015/01/17 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2015/10/10 06:00 [medline]
AID - 10.1039/c4em00594e [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Environ Sci Process Impacts. 2015 Mar;17(3):525-32. doi: 10.1039/c4em00594e.