PMID- 38316297
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20240306
LR  - 20240306
IS  - 1879-1026 (Electronic)
IS  - 0048-9697 (Linking)
VI  - 920
DP  - 2024 Apr 10
TI  - Health risk assessment and development of human health ambient water quality 
      criteria for PCBs in Taihu Basin, China.
PG  - 170669
LID - S0048-9697(24)00808-8 [pii]
LID - 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2024.170669 [doi]
AB  - Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) are a class of typical persistent organic 
      pollutants (POPs) with carcinogenicity and extensively found in diverse 
      environmental mediums. The Taihu Basin is one of the most economically developed 
      regions in China, and it has also caused a lot of historical legacy and 
      unconscious emissions of PCBs, posing a threat to the health of people in the 
      region. This study counted the concentrations of PCBs in five environmental media 
      (water, soil, air, dust, and food) in the Taihu Basin from 2000 to 2020 and used 
      Monte Carlo simulation to simulate the multi-channel exposure of PCBs in people 
      of different ages (children, teenagers, and adults), and evaluated their 
      noncarcinogenic and carcinogenic health risks. Finally, the human health ambient 
      water quality standards (AWQC) for PCBs were obtained using regional exposure 
      parameters and bioaccumulation factors. The results showed that the pollution of 
      PCBs in the Taihu Basin was relatively serious in China. The concentration of 
      PCBs in dust is higher than other environmental media. And exposure to water and 
      food is the main exposure pathway for PCBs in the population of the region. 
      Besides, PCBs pose no noncarcinogenic risk to people in this region, but their 
      carcinogenic risk to residents exceeds the safety threshold. Among the three 
      population groups, adults have the highest risk of cancer, and prevention 
      measures need to be taken by controlling the intake of related foods and the 
      concentration of PCBs in water. The following human health AWQC values of the 
      PCBs in Taihu Basin is 3.2 x 10(-9) mg/L.
CI  - Copyright (c) 2024. Published by Elsevier B.V.
FAU - Ling, Jianan
AU  - Ling J
AD  - State Key Laboratory of Environmental Criteria and Risk Assessment, Chinese 
      Research Academy of Environmental Sciences, Beijing 100012, PR China.
FAU - Yan, Zhenguang
AU  - Yan Z
AD  - State Key Laboratory of Environmental Criteria and Risk Assessment, Chinese 
      Research Academy of Environmental Sciences, Beijing 100012, PR China.
FAU - Liu, Xinyu
AU  - Liu X
AD  - State Key Laboratory of Environmental Criteria and Risk Assessment, Chinese 
      Research Academy of Environmental Sciences, Beijing 100012, PR China.
FAU - Men, Shuhui
AU  - Men S
AD  - State Key Laboratory of Environmental Criteria and Risk Assessment, Chinese 
      Research Academy of Environmental Sciences, Beijing 100012, PR China.
FAU - Wei, Chao
AU  - Wei C
AD  - State Key Laboratory of Environmental Criteria and Risk Assessment, Chinese 
      Research Academy of Environmental Sciences, Beijing 100012, PR China.
FAU - Wang, Ziye
AU  - Wang Z
AD  - State Key Laboratory of Environmental Criteria and Risk Assessment, Chinese 
      Research Academy of Environmental Sciences, Beijing 100012, PR China.
FAU - Zheng, Xin
AU  - Zheng X
AD  - State Key Laboratory of Environmental Criteria and Risk Assessment, Chinese 
      Research Academy of Environmental Sciences, Beijing 100012, PR China. Electronic 
      address: zhengxin@craes.org.cn.
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
DEP - 20240204
PL  - Netherlands
TA  - Sci Total Environ
JT  - The Science of the total environment
JID - 0330500
RN  - DFC2HB4I0K (Polychlorinated Biphenyls)
RN  - 0 (Carcinogens)
RN  - 0 (Dust)
SB  - IM
MH  - Adult
MH  - Adolescent
MH  - Child
MH  - Humans
MH  - *Polychlorinated Biphenyls/analysis
MH  - Water Quality
MH  - Environmental Monitoring
MH  - Carcinogens/analysis
MH  - China
MH  - Risk Assessment
MH  - Dust
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - Human health AWQC
OT  - Human health risk assessment
OT  - Multimedia exposure
OT  - PCBs
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- 2024/02/06 00:42
MHDA- 2024/03/06 06:44
CRDT- 2024/02/05 19:24
PHST- 2023/09/30 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2024/01/15 00:00 [revised]
PHST- 2024/02/01 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2024/03/06 06:44 [medline]
PHST- 2024/02/06 00:42 [pubmed]
PHST- 2024/02/05 19:24 [entrez]
AID - S0048-9697(24)00808-8 [pii]
AID - 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2024.170669 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Sci Total Environ. 2024 Apr 10;920:170669. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2024.170669. 
      Epub 2024 Feb 4.