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Anna Karla Santos Pereira, Lívia Fernandes Silva, Gustavo Antonio Figueredo Barbosa, Thaynara Guimarães Miranda, Rayane Reis Sousa, Renato Almeida Sarmento, Nelson Luís Gonçalves Dias Souza, Douglas Henrique Pereira and Grasiele Soares Cavallini
The present study reviews the quantitative data on the use of pesticides and their relationship to environmental and human health problems in Brazil. The detection of residual concentrations of pesticides in food and water consumed by humans has raised q...
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Madalina Matei, Roxana Zaharia, Silvia-Ioana Petrescu, Cristina Gabriela Radu-Rusu, Daniel Simeanu, Daniel Mierli?a and Ioan Mircea Pop
Persistent organic pollutants have particular ecotoxicological importance and they are amongst the most harmful groups of persistent pollutants. The complexity of persistent organic pollutants highlights the different sources of pollution from which they...
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Hung-Yen Hsieh, Kuang-Ching Huang, Jing-O Cheng, Fung-Chi Ko and Pei-Jie Meng
Bioaccumulation by zooplankton is the outset for persistent organic pollutants that enter the marine food chain. Owing to a full spectrum of anthropogenic activities, the Gaoping waters of southwestern Taiwan are exposed to large quantities of polybromin...
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Michele Arienzo, Luciano Ferrara and Marco Trifuoggi
This review is a follow-up to a previous review published in Journal of Marine Science and Engineeringon the issues of accumulation, transport, and the effects of microplastics (MPs) in the oceans. The review brings together experimental laboratory, math...
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Delphine Bachelet, Marc-André Verner, Monica Neri, Émilie Cordina Duverger, Corinne Charlier, Patrick Arveux, Sami Haddad and Pascal Guénel
Exposure to environmental chemicals with hormonal effects, such as organochlorine compounds (OCs), during developmental periods of breast cells may have an impact on the incidence of breast cancer later in life. However, the assessment of exposure to the...
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Bartolomeo Sebastiani and Stefano Falcinelli
Analytical data concerning the contamination on three officinal plants due to Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs), as organochlorine pesticides, are reported and discussed. Analyzed vegetation??Graviola? (Annona muricata), ?Mullaca? (Physalis ...
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Hye Ah Lee, Su Hyun Park, Young Sun Hong, Eun Hee Ha and Hyesook Park
Previous evidence suggests the potential for adverse effects of persistent organic pollutants (POPs) on metabolic health even at low-dose exposure levels common among the general population, but there is less evidence of these associations among children...
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Mai A. Elobeid, Miguel A. Padilla, David W. Brock, Douglas M. Ruden and David B. Allison
Recent evidence suggests that endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs) may cause perturbations in endogenous hormonal regulation that predispose to weight gain. Using data from NHANES (1999?2002), we investigated the association between body mass index (BMI...
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Lesya Marushka, Xuefeng Hu, Malek Batal, Tonio Sadik, Harold Schwartz, Amy Ing, Karen Fediuk, Constantine Tikhonov and Hing Man Chan
We previously studied the association between fish consumption and prevalence of type 2 diabetes (T2D) in Manitoba and Ontario First Nations (FNs), Canada and found different results. In this study, we used a difference in difference model to analyze the...
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Nicolás Javier Pizarro-Aránguiz,Diego Garcia-Mendoza,Ruben Muñoz-Obregon,Betty San Martín Nuñez,Rodrigo Morales Pavez
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According to a One Health perspective, the importance of persistent organic pollutants (POPs) must be assessed because of their impact on the environment, food chain and human health. However, information on these toxic compounds is limite...
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Gaetano Settimo, Maria Eleonora Soggiu, Marco Inglessis, Giovanni Marsili and Pasquale Avino
The deposition rate is a relevant and novel issue in air quality evaluation. Particularly, atmospheric micropollutant deposition rate measures represent a strategic element in environmental surveillance and in population exposure evaluation for POPs and ...
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Aiswarya Ragothaman and William A. Anderson
Though refineries and petrochemical industries meet society?s energy demands and produce a range of useful chemicals, they can also affect air quality. The World Health Organization (WHO) has identified polluted air as the single largest environmental ri...
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Byung-Moon Jun, Yejin Kim, Jonghun Han, Yeomin Yoon, Jeonggwan Kim and Chang Min Park
For this study, we applied activated biochar (AB) and its composition with magnetite (AB-Fe3O4) as adsorbents for the removal of polychlorophenols in model wastewater. We comprehensively characterized these adsorbents and performed adsorption tests under...
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Jhon Fredy Narvaez Valderrama, Juan D. González, Jazmín Porras and Francisco J. Molina
Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) in water can reach levels below ppt (ng L-1), representing a challenge for risk assessment using long-term exposure. Therefore, sampling devices to monitor trace levels of organic compounds are suitable due to their s...
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Michele Arienzo and Carlo Donadio
Microplastics, MPs, in aquatic environments pose serious threats when associated with other pollutants, such as pharmaceuticals, PHs. This review is a continuation of an earlier paper on the role of MPs as containers and carriers of heavy metals, HMs, pe...
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Fanrong Kong, Jin Liu, Zaixin Xiang, Wei Fan, Jiancong Liu, Jinsheng Wang, Yangyang Wang, Lei Wang and Beidou Xi
Recently, biochar has emerged as a promising option for environmentally friendly remediation due to its cost-effectiveness, extensive surface area, porosity, and exceptional electrical conductivity. Biochar-based advanced oxidation procedures (BC-AOPs) h...
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Xiaoyi Lou, Yifan Sui, Qichao Zhang, Changling Fang, Yunyu Tang, Xuan Zhang, Guangxin Yang, Yongfu Shi, Dongmei Huang, Jie Guan and Yaoguang Guo
The removal of decabromodiphenyl ether (BDE 209), as a typical persistent organic pollutant (POP), is of worldwide concern. Mechanochemical (MC) processes are promising methods to degrade environmental pollutants, most of which use a single grinding reag...
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Cong Li, Bo Jiang, Jiaqi Guo, Chunmeng Sun, Changjie Shi, Saikai Huang, Wang Liu, Chengzhang Wu and Yunshu Zhang
Plastic wastes are becoming one of the most serious environmental pollutants because of their high antidegradation properties and the damage they cause to human health. More seriously, plastics can become smaller in size and form microplastics (MPs), att...
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Konstantinos G. Koukoulakis, Panagiotis George Kanellopoulos, Eirini Chrysochou, Danae Costopoulou, Irene Vassiliadou, Leondios Leondiadis and Evangelos Bakeas
Background: Thriassion Plain is considered the most industrialized area in Greece and thus a place where emissions of pollutants are expected to be elevated, leading to the degradation of air quality. Methods: Simultaneous determination of polycyclic aro...
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Helena Lopes and Susana Proença
Since ashes are a possible source of Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) contamination, their application in soils must be subject to more study and control. In this scope, feed residual forest biomasses and biomass ashes, collected along one year in fo...
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