PMID- 27986323
OWN - NLM
STAT- PubMed-not-MEDLINE
DCOM- 20180314
LR  - 20180314
IS  - 1879-1026 (Electronic)
IS  - 0048-9697 (Linking)
VI  - 580
DP  - 2017 Feb 15
TI  - Persistent organic pollutants in China's surface water systems.
PG  - 602-625
LID - S0048-9697(16)32693-6 [pii]
LID - 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2016.12.007 [doi]
AB  - Following recent rapid industrialization, China is now one of the largest 
      producers and consumers of organic chemicals in the world. This is compounded by 
      variable regulatory oversight with respect to storage, use and waste management 
      of these chemicals and their byproducts. This review synthesizes the data on the 
      distribution of selected persistent organic pollutants (POPs) in waters in China. 
      Surface water heavily polluted with POPs is distributed in the Yangtze River 
      Estuary, Pearl River Delta, Minjiang River Estuary, Jiulongjiang Estuary, Daya 
      Bay, Taihu Lake, and the waterways of Zhejiang Province, where concentrations of 
      Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), organochlorine pesticides (OCPs) and 
      polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) frequently exceed both international and Chinese 
      guideline values. These areas are mainly distributed along the southeast coast of 
      China, within or downstream of major manufacturing districts, intensive 
      agricultural basins, and other industrial centers. A comparison of the levels of 
      OCPs in the aquatic environment of China with other indicative regions worldwide 
      shows comparable levels of pollution (overall range from below detection limit 
      (BDL) to 5104.8ng/L and regional means from 2.9-929.6ng/L). PAHs and PCBs 
      pollution appear to be particularly serious in China (PAHs overall ranging from 
      BDL to 474,000ng/L with regional means from 15.1-72,400ng/L; PCBs from BDL to 
      3161ng/L with regional means ranging from 0.2-985.2ng/L). There is as yet limited 
      evidence of serious perfluorooctane sulfonate (PFOS) and perfluorooctanoate 
      (PFOA) pollution. We discuss major sources and processes responsible for high POP 
      occurrence using a range of measures (including diagnostic ratios of different 
      compounds), regulatory oversight and policy gaps in the control of POPs in China, 
      and potential long-term health and ecological effects. We argue that water 
      quality guidelines, pollution control measures and cleanup strategies for POPs in 
      China should be urgently improved.
CI  - Copyright (c) 2016 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
FAU - Han, Dongmei
AU  - Han D
AD  - Key Laboratory of Water Cycle & Related Land Surface Processes, Institute of 
      Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 
      Beijing 100101, China. Electronic address: handm@igsnrr.ac.cn.
FAU - Currell, Matthew J
AU  - Currell MJ
AD  - School of Engineering, RMIT University, Melbourne, Victoria 3001, Australia.
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PT  - Review
DEP - 20161213
PL  - Netherlands
TA  - Sci Total Environ
JT  - The Science of the total environment
JID - 0330500
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - China
OT  - Organochlorine pesticides (OCPs)
OT  - Persistent organic pollutants
OT  - Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs)
OT  - Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs)
OT  - Surface water system
EDAT- 2016/12/18 06:00
MHDA- 2016/12/18 06:01
CRDT- 2016/12/18 06:00
PHST- 2016/07/27 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2016/12/02 00:00 [revised]
PHST- 2016/12/02 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2016/12/18 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2016/12/18 06:01 [medline]
PHST- 2016/12/18 06:00 [entrez]
AID - S0048-9697(16)32693-6 [pii]
AID - 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2016.12.007 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Sci Total Environ. 2017 Feb 15;580:602-625. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2016.12.007. 
      Epub 2016 Dec 13.