The Pollution status of emerging persistent organic pollutants in China

Environmental Engineering Science

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 215-225

  Wang, Bin ^a,b   Iino, Fukuya ^a   Yu, Gang ^b   Huang, Jun ^b   Morita, Masatoshi ^c  

^a UNITED NATIONS UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c EHIME UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Dechlorane plus; Emerging POPs; PBDEs; PFOS PFOA; SCCPs

Indexed keywords

E-WASTE; ENVIRONMENTAL LEVELS; ENVIRONMENTAL MATRIXES; ENVIRONMENTAL SAMPLE; HUMAN BODIES; PERFLUORINATED COMPOUNDS; PERSISTENT ORGANIC POLLUTANTS; POLYBROMINATED DIPHENYL ETHERS; SHORT-CHAIN CHLORINATED PARAFFINS; STOCKHOLM; SULFONIC ACID; TEMPORAL VARIATION; ZHEJIANG PROVINCE;

ETHERS; PARAFFIN WAXES; PARAFFINS;

ORGANIC POLLUTANTS;

ORGANIC COMPOUND; PARAFFIN; PERFLUORO COMPOUND; PERFLUOROOCTANE SULFONYL FLUORIDE; PERFLUOROOCTANESULFONIC ACID; POLYBROMINATED DIPHENYL ETHER; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

CHINA; DUMPING; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; NORTH AMERICA; ORGANIC POLLUTION; REVIEW; WASTE;

EID: 77949807446     PISSN: 10928758     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/ees.2009.0337     Document Type: Review

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