PMID- 27487448
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20180321
LR  - 20181202
IS  - 1879-1026 (Electronic)
IS  - 0048-9697 (Linking)
VI  - 571
DP  - 2016 Nov 15
TI  - PCDD, PCDF, dl-PCB and organochlorine pesticides monitoring in Sao Paulo City 
      using passive air sampler as part of the Global Monitoring Plan.
PG  - 323-31
LID - S0048-9697(16)31628-X [pii]
LID - 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2016.07.173 [doi]
AB  - The persistent organic pollutants (POPs), such as organochlorine pesticides and 
      PCBs, are ordinarily monitored in the aquatic environment or in soil in the 
      environmental quality monitoring programs in Sao Paulo, Brazil. One of the core 
      matrices proposed in the POPs Global Monitoring Plan (GMP) from the Stockholm 
      Convention list is the ambient air, which is not a usual matrix for POPs 
      monitoring in the country. In this study POP levels were evaluated in the air 
      samples from an urban site in Sao Paulo City over five years, starting in 2010 as 
      a capacity building project for Latin America and the Caribbean region for POP 
      monitoring in ambient air using passive samplers. Furthermore, after the end of 
      the Project in 2012, the monitoring continued in the same sampling site as means 
      to improving the analytical capacity building and contribute to the GMP data. The 
      POPs monitored were 17 congeners of 2,3,7,8 chloro-substituted PCDDs and PCDFs, 
      dioxin-like PCBs, indicator PCBs, organochlorine pesticides and toxaphene. The 
      results show a slight decrease in PCDD/F, dl-PCBs and indicator PCBs levels along 
      the five years. The organochlorine pesticide endosulfan was present at its 
      highest concentration at the beginning of the monitoring period, but it was below 
      detection level in the last year of the monitoring. Some other organochlorine 
      pesticides were detected close to or below quantitation limits. The compounds 
      identified were dieldrin, chlordane, alpha-HCH, gamma-HCH, heptachlor, heptachlor 
      epoxide, hexachlorobenzene and DDTs. Toxaphene congeners were not detected. These 
      results have confirmed the efficacy of passive sampling for POP monitoring and 
      the capacity building for POP analysis and monitoring was established. However 
      more needs to be done, including expansion of sampling sites, new POPs and 
      studies on sampling rates to be considered in calculating the concentration of 
      POPs in ambient air using a passive sampler.
CI  - Copyright (c) 2016 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
FAU - Tominaga, M Y
AU  - Tominaga MY
AD  - Physical-Chemical Analysis Division, Sao Paulo State Environmental Company 
      (CETESB), Brazil. Electronic address: mytominaga@sp.gov.br.
FAU - Silva, C R
AU  - Silva CR
AD  - Organic Chemistry Section, Sao Paulo State Environmental Company (CETESB), 
      Brazil.
FAU - Melo, J P
AU  - Melo JP
AD  - Organic Chemistry Section, Sao Paulo State Environmental Company (CETESB), 
      Brazil.
FAU - Niwa, N A
AU  - Niwa NA
AD  - Organic Chemistry Section, Sao Paulo State Environmental Company (CETESB), 
      Brazil.
FAU - Plascak, D
AU  - Plascak D
AD  - Organic Chemistry Section, Sao Paulo State Environmental Company (CETESB), 
      Brazil.
FAU - Souza, C A M
AU  - Souza CA
AD  - Organic Chemistry Section, Sao Paulo State Environmental Company (CETESB), 
      Brazil.
FAU - Sato, M I Z
AU  - Sato MI
AD  - Environmental Analysis Department, Sao Paulo State Environmental Company 
      (CETESB), Brazil.
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
DEP - 20160731
PL  - Netherlands
TA  - Sci Total Environ
JT  - The Science of the total environment
JID - 0330500
RN  - 0 (Air Pollutants)
RN  - 0 (Dioxins and Dioxin-like Compounds)
RN  - 0 (Hydrocarbons, Chlorinated)
RN  - 0 (Pesticides)
SB  - IM
MH  - Air Pollutants/*analysis
MH  - Brazil
MH  - Cities
MH  - Dioxins and Dioxin-like Compounds/*analysis
MH  - Environmental Monitoring/*methods
MH  - Hydrocarbons, Chlorinated/*analysis
MH  - Pesticides/analysis
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - Organochlorine pesticides
OT  - PCDD/Fs
OT  - Passive sampling
OT  - dl-PCBs
EDAT- 2016/08/04 06:00
MHDA- 2018/03/22 06:00
CRDT- 2016/08/04 06:00
PHST- 2016/05/31 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2016/07/24 00:00 [revised]
PHST- 2016/07/24 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2016/08/04 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2016/08/04 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2018/03/22 06:00 [medline]
AID - S0048-9697(16)31628-X [pii]
AID - 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2016.07.173 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Sci Total Environ. 2016 Nov 15;571:323-31. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2016.07.173. 
      Epub 2016 Jul 31.