PMID- 35839990
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20220928
LR  - 20220928
IS  - 1879-1298 (Electronic)
IS  - 0045-6535 (Linking)
VI  - 307
IP  - Pt 1
DP  - 2022 Nov
TI  - Occurrence and distribution of persistent organic pollutants (POPs) in the 
      atmosphere of the Andean city of Medellin, Colombia.
PG  - 135648
LID - S0045-6535(22)02141-5 [pii]
LID - 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2022.135648 [doi]
AB  - Passive air sampling (PAS) was used to evaluate organochlorine pesticides, 
      polychlorinated biphenyls, polybrominated diphenyl ethers, polybrominated 
      biphenyl, hexabromocyclododecane, polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins, 
      polychlorinated dibenzofurans, and perfluoroalkane substances in the atmosphere 
      of Medellin, Colombia. PAS was carried out for three months (four quarters per 
      year) over two consecutive years (2017 and 2018). This study allowed establishing 
      the baseline of some pollutants in the city against which future temporal trends 
      can be assessed. Furthermore, monitoring results suggested releases of DDT in the 
      city or surrounding areas despite this pollutant was banned many years ago in the 
      country. Moreover, this study evidenced the limited scope of the national 
      laboratories to analyze persistent organic pollutants, specially brominated and 
      fluorinated contaminants. However, there is an installed capacity to analyze 
      organochlorine pesticide and indicator PCB in future national monitoring plans. 
      Therefore, it is essential to realize efforts to improve the analytical capacity 
      and increase the scope of the national laboratories. Furthermore, the PAS 
      strategy was valuable for monitoring these pollutants in air. Finally, the 
      results provide an overall view of persistent organic pollutants levels and 
      represent an initial attempt to monitor and surveillance the releases of these 
      pollutants in the city.
CI  - Copyright (c) 2022 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
FAU - Avila, Boris Santiago
AU  - Avila BS
AD  - Universidad de Antioquia, Facultad de Ingenieria, Sede de Investigacion 
      Universitaria, Grupo Diagnostico y Control de la Contaminacion - GDCON, Calle 70 
      No 52 -21, Postal Code: 050010, Medellin, Colombia. Electronic address: 
      boris.avila@udea.edu.co.
FAU - Mendoza, Diana Pemberthy
AU  - Mendoza DP
AD  - Universidad de Antioquia, Facultad de Ingenieria, Sede de Investigacion 
      Universitaria, Grupo Diagnostico y Control de la Contaminacion - GDCON, Calle 70 
      No 52 -21, Postal Code: 050010, Medellin, Colombia.
FAU - Ramirez, Andres
AU  - Ramirez A
AD  - Programa de las Naciones Unidas para El Desarrollo, Proyecto PNUD-COL 
      98842/94749, Bogota DC, Colombia.
FAU - Penuela, Gustavo A
AU  - Penuela GA
AD  - Universidad de Antioquia, Facultad de Ingenieria, Sede de Investigacion 
      Universitaria, Grupo Diagnostico y Control de la Contaminacion - GDCON, Calle 70 
      No 52 -21, Postal Code: 050010, Medellin, Colombia.
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
DEP - 20220712
PL  - England
TA  - Chemosphere
JT  - Chemosphere
JID - 0320657
RN  - 0 (Air Pollutants)
RN  - 0 (Dibenzofurans, Polychlorinated)
RN  - 0 (Halogenated Diphenyl Ethers)
RN  - 0 (Hydrocarbons, Chlorinated)
RN  - 0 (Pesticides)
RN  - 0 (Polybrominated Biphenyls)
RN  - 0 (Polychlorinated Dibenzodioxins)
RN  - CIW5S16655 (DDT)
RN  - DFC2HB4I0K (Polychlorinated Biphenyls)
SB  - IM
MH  - *Air Pollutants/analysis
MH  - Atmosphere
MH  - Colombia
MH  - DDT
MH  - Dibenzofurans, Polychlorinated/analysis
MH  - Environmental Monitoring/methods
MH  - Halogenated Diphenyl Ethers/analysis
MH  - *Hydrocarbons, Chlorinated/analysis
MH  - Persistent Organic Pollutants
MH  - *Pesticides/analysis
MH  - *Polybrominated Biphenyls
MH  - *Polychlorinated Biphenyls/analysis
MH  - *Polychlorinated Dibenzodioxins/analysis
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - Air monitoring
OT  - GRULAC region
OT  - Global monitoring plan
OT  - Passive air sampling
OT  - Stockholm convention
COIS- Declaration of competing interest The authors declare that they have no known 
      competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared 
      to influence the work reported in this paper.
EDAT- 2022/07/16 06:00
MHDA- 2022/09/28 06:00
CRDT- 2022/07/15 19:25
PHST- 2022/02/28 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2022/06/30 00:00 [revised]
PHST- 2022/07/05 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2022/07/16 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2022/09/28 06:00 [medline]
PHST- 2022/07/15 19:25 [entrez]
AID - S0045-6535(22)02141-5 [pii]
AID - 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2022.135648 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Chemosphere. 2022 Nov;307(Pt 1):135648. doi: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2022.135648. 
      Epub 2022 Jul 12.