Tree Bark As a Biomonitor for the Determination of Polychlorinated Biphenyls and Polybrominated Diphenyl Ethers from Southern Jiangsu, China: Levels, Distribution, and Possible Sources

Overview

Journal Environ Monit Assess

Publisher Springer

Specialty Environmental Health

Date 2015 Aug 31

PMID 26318317

Authors

Li Zhou

Liang Dong

Ye-Ru Huang

Shuang-Xin Shi

Li-fei Zhang

Xiu-Lan Zhang

Wen-Long Yang

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Abstract

Tree bark was used as the passive air sampler to evaluate polychlorinated biphenyl (PCB) and polybrominated diphenyl ether (PBDE) pollution and possible sources in Southern Jiangsu. The concentrations of PCBs and Σ7PBDEs were in the range of 0.58-5.19 ng/g dry weight (dw; mean 1.79 ng/g dw) and 17.9-243 pg/g dw (mean 74.7 pg/g dw), respectively. Tri-PCBs were the major PCB homologs, and technical PCB product Ar1242 was identified as the main source. BDE209 concentrations (4.29-456 ng/g dw) were relatively high, indicating that BDE209 pollution was serious in this region. The deca-BDE commercial mixture was the predominant commercial PBDE product used in this region. A good correlation was found between tree bark and polyurethane foam (PUF) disks in Σ6PCB monitoring, suggesting that both of them respond well to the gas-phase PCB monitoring.

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