Recent status of organohalogens, heavy metals and PAHs pollution in specific locations in India

Chemosphere

Volumn 137, Issue , 2015, Pages 122-134

  Subramanian, Annamalai ^a   Kunisue, Tatsuya ^a   Tanabe, Shinsuke ^a  

^a EHIME UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Heavy metals; India; Organohalogens; PAHs; Recent status

Indexed keywords

ELECTRONIC WASTE; FLAME RETARDANTS; FOSSIL FUELS; HEAVY METALS; LOCATION; MARINE POLLUTION; MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE;

BROMINATED FLAME RETARDANTS (BFRS); ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES; INDIA; ORGANOHALOGENS; POLYAROMATIC HYDROCARBONS; RECENT STATUS; SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL CHANGES; SPECIFIC LOCATION;

POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBONS;

BROMINE; CHLORPHENOTANE; FLAME RETARDANT; FOSSIL FUEL; HEAVY METAL; ORGANOHALOGEN DERIVATIVE; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL DERIVATIVE; POLYCHLORINATED DIBENZODIOXIN; POLYCHLORINATED DIBENZOFURAN; POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBON; CHLORINATED HYDROCARBON; HALOGENATED HYDROCARBON; PESTICIDE; POLLUTANT;

AGRARIAN REFORM; BROMINE COMPOUND; CHEMICAL POLLUTANT; COASTAL ZONE; HEAVY METAL; ORGANOHALOGEN; PAH; PCDD; PCDF; POLLUTANT SOURCE; POLLUTION CONTROL; POLLUTION MONITORING; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TREND ANALYSIS;

AIR SAMPLING; BREAST MILK; CONTAMINATION; CORVUS; DUMPING; ELECTRONIC WASTE; HUMAN; INDIA; MARINE MAMMAL; MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE; NONHUMAN; PIG; POLLUTION; RECYCLING; REVIEW; SOIL; WILDLIFE; ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; POLLUTANT; PROCEDURES; URBANIZATION;

INDIA; JAPAN;

ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; FLAME RETARDANTS; HYDROCARBONS, CHLORINATED; HYDROCARBONS, HALOGENATED; INDIA; METALS, HEAVY; PESTICIDES; POLYCYCLIC HYDROCARBONS, AROMATIC; URBANIZATION;

EID: 84955258788     PISSN: 00456535     EISSN: 18791298     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2015.06.065     Document Type: Review

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