Organophosphorus flame retardants and plasticizers: Sources, occurrence, toxicity and human exposure

Environmental Pollution

Volumn 196, Issue , 2015, Pages 29-46

  Wei, Gao Ling ^a   Li, Ding Qiang ^a,b   Zhuo, Mu Ning ^a   Liao, Yi Shan ^a   Xie, Zhen Yue ^a   Guo, Tai Long ^a   Li, Jun Jie ^a   Zhang, Si Yi ^a   Liang, Zhi Quan ^a,c  

^a GUANGDONG INSTITUTE OF ECO ENVIRONMENTAL AND SOIL SCIENCES   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Emission sources; Human exposure; Occurrence; Organophosphorus flame retardants and plasticizers; Toxicity

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; DUST; PHOSPHORUS COMPOUNDS; PLASTICIZERS; REINFORCED PLASTICS; SOLVENTS; TOXICITY;

BROMINATED FLAME RETARDANTS; EMISSION SOURCES; FLAME RETARDANTS AND PLASTICIZERS; HUMAN EXPOSURES; LONG-RANGE ATMOSPHERIC TRANSPORTS; OCCURRENCE; ORGANOPHOSPHORUS COMPOUNDS; ORGANOPHOSPHORUS FLAME RETARDANTS;

FLAME RETARDANTS;

FLAME RETARDANT; ORGANOPHOSPHORUS COMPOUND; PLASTICIZER; WATER; DUST;

EMISSION; FLAME RETARDANT; ORGANOPHOSPHATE; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; TOXICITY;

AIR; ATMOSPHERIC TRANSPORT; BIOTA; DIETARY INTAKE; DUST; DUST EXPOSURE; ECOTOXICITY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL RELEASE; HEALTH HAZARD; HUMAN; INGESTION; INHALATION; NONHUMAN; POLLUTION MONITORING; POLLUTION TRANSPORT; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEDIMENT; SOIL; WASTE WATER; ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENT; HALOGENATION; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

DUST; ENVIRONMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FLAME RETARDANTS; HALOGENATION; HUMANS; ORGANOPHOSPHORUS COMPOUNDS; PLASTICIZERS;

EID: 84928389252     PISSN: 02697491     EISSN: 18736424     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2014.09.012     Document Type: Review

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