PMID- 26490526
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20160812
LR  - 20170808
IS  - 1879-1026 (Electronic)
IS  - 0048-9697 (Linking)
VI  - 541
DP  - 2016 Jan 15
TI  - An overlooked environmental issue? A review of the inadvertent formation of 
      PCB-11 and other PCB congeners and their occurrence in consumer products and in 
      the environment.
PG  - 1463-1476
LID - S0048-9697(15)30836-6 [pii]
LID - 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2015.10.019 [doi]
AB  - Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) are banned from production and use in most 
      countries as they are persistent organic pollutants (POPs) of concern for 
      environment and health. Recent research has pointed at a new environment issue 
      resulting from the inadvertent formation of PCBs in certain processes, in 
      particular the pigment production. PCB-11 is a major by-product in these 
      processes, but PCB-28, PCB-52, PCB-77 as well as the nonachlorinated PCBs and 
      PCB-209 have been found in pigments and consumer products as well. In addition to 
      environmental emissions via point sources, in particular related to industrial 
      and municipal wastewater, atmospheric transport seems to be important for the 
      global distribution of PCB-11. Thus, PCB-11 has also been detected in the polar 
      regions. Worldwide air concentrations appear relatively uniform, but maxima have 
      been found in urban and industrialised areas. Data on the uptake and accumulation 
      of PCB-11 in the food chain are still inconclusive: Although food web studies do 
      not show biomagnification, PCB-11 has been detected in humans. The human exposure 
      might originate from the direct contact to consumer products as well as from the 
      omnipresence of PCB-11 in the environment.
CI  - Copyright (c) 2015 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
FAU - Vorkamp, Katrin
AU  - Vorkamp K
AD  - Aarhus University, Department of Environmental Science, Frederiksborgvej 399, 
      4000 Roskilde, Denmark. Electronic address: kvo@envs.au.dk.
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PT  - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
PT  - Review
DEP - 20151111
PL  - Netherlands
TA  - Sci Total Environ
JT  - The Science of the total environment
JID - 0330500
RN  - 0 (Environmental Pollutants)
RN  - 0 (Hazardous Substances)
RN  - 62U12S7CJZ (3,3'-dichlorobiphenyl)
RN  - DFC2HB4I0K (Polychlorinated Biphenyls)
SB  - IM
MH  - Environmental Monitoring
MH  - Environmental Policy
MH  - Environmental Pollutants/*analysis
MH  - Hazardous Substances
MH  - *Household Products
MH  - Polychlorinated Biphenyls/*analysis
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - Atmospheric transport
OT  - Nonachlorinated biphenyls
OT  - PCB-209
OT  - PCB-77
OT  - Pigments
OT  - Wastewater
EDAT- 2015/10/23 06:00
MHDA- 2016/08/16 06:00
CRDT- 2015/10/23 06:00
PHST- 2015/08/24 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2015/10/05 00:00 [revised]
PHST- 2015/10/05 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2015/10/23 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2015/10/23 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2016/08/16 06:00 [medline]
AID - S0048-9697(15)30836-6 [pii]
AID - 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2015.10.019 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Sci Total Environ. 2016 Jan 15;541:1463-1476. doi: 
      10.1016/j.scitotenv.2015.10.019. Epub 2015 Nov 11.