PMID- 36878366
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20230324
LR  - 20230324
IS  - 1879-1298 (Electronic)
IS  - 0045-6535 (Linking)
VI  - 324
DP  - 2023 May
TI  - Persistent organic pollutants in air from Asia, Africa, Latin America, and the 
      Pacific.
PG  - 138271
LID - S0045-6535(23)00538-6 [pii]
LID - 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2023.138271 [doi]
AB  - In support of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) global monitoring 
      plan under the Stockholm Convention concentrations of persistent organic 
      pollutants (POPs) were determined during two years in air from 42 countries in 
      Asia, Africa, Latin America, and the Pacific by using polyurethane foams 
      installed in passive samplers. The compounds included were polychlorinated 
      biphenyls (PCBs), organochlorine pesticides (OCPs), polybrominated diphenylethers 
      (PBDEs), one polybrominated biphenyl and hexabromocyclododecane (HBCD) 
      diastereomers. Total-DDT and PCBs were the highest in concentrations in about 50% 
      of the samples, which shows their high persistency. Total DDT in air from the 
      Solomon Islands ranged from 200 to 600 ng/polyurethane foam disk (PUF). However, 
      at most locations, a decreasing trend is observed for PCBs, DDT and most other 
      OCPs. Patterns varied per country with e.g. elevated dieldrin in air from 
      Barbados and chlordane in air from the Philippines. A number of OCPs, such as 
      heptachlor and its epoxides, some other chlordanes, mirex and toxaphene have 
      decreased down to almost undetectable levels. PBB153 was hardly found and penta 
      and octa--mix related PBDEs were also relatively low at most locations. HBCD and 
      the decabromodiphenylether were more prominent at many locations and may even 
      still increase. To draw more holistic conclusions more colder climate countries 
      should be included in this program.
CI  - Copyright (c) 2023 Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Published by Elsevier Ltd.. All 
      rights reserved.
FAU - de Boer, Jacob
AU  - de Boer J
AD  - Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Dept. Environment & Health, De Boelelaan 1085, 
      1081HV, Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Electronic address: jacob.de.boer@vu.nl.
FAU - van Dijk, Rianne
AU  - van Dijk R
AD  - Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Dept. Environment & Health, De Boelelaan 1085, 
      1081HV, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
FAU - Abalos, Manoli
AU  - Abalos M
AD  - Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas, Dioxins Laboratory (IDAEA-CSIC), 
      Carrer de Jordi Girona 18-26, 08034, Barcelona, Spain.
FAU - Abad, Esteban
AU  - Abad E
AD  - Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas, Dioxins Laboratory (IDAEA-CSIC), 
      Carrer de Jordi Girona 18-26, 08034, Barcelona, Spain.
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
DEP - 20230304
PL  - England
TA  - Chemosphere
JT  - Chemosphere
JID - 0320657
RN  - DFC2HB4I0K (Polychlorinated Biphenyls)
RN  - 0 (Persistent Organic Pollutants)
RN  - CIW5S16655 (DDT)
RN  - 0 (Halogenated Diphenyl Ethers)
RN  - 0 (Air Pollutants)
RN  - 0 (Hydrocarbons, Chlorinated)
RN  - 0 (Pesticides)
RN  - 12789-03-6 (Chlordan)
SB  - IM
MH  - *Polychlorinated Biphenyls/analysis
MH  - Persistent Organic Pollutants
MH  - DDT/analysis
MH  - Halogenated Diphenyl Ethers/analysis
MH  - Latin America
MH  - Environmental Monitoring
MH  - *Air Pollutants/analysis
MH  - *Hydrocarbons, Chlorinated/analysis
MH  - *Pesticides/analysis
MH  - Chlordan
MH  - Africa
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - Global monitoring
OT  - POPs
OT  - Passive air sampling
OT  - Stockholm Convention
OT  - United Nations
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- 2023/03/07 06:00
MHDA- 2023/03/25 06:00
CRDT- 2023/03/06 19:24
PHST- 2022/10/25 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2023/02/24 00:00 [revised]
PHST- 2023/02/27 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2023/03/07 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2023/03/25 06:00 [medline]
PHST- 2023/03/06 19:24 [entrez]
AID - S0045-6535(23)00538-6 [pii]
AID - 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2023.138271 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Chemosphere. 2023 May;324:138271. doi: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2023.138271. Epub 
      2023 Mar 4.