Retrospective analysis of “new” flame retardants in the global atmosphere under the GAPS Network

Sum Chi Lee, Ed Sverko, Tom Harner*, Karla Pozo, Enzo Barresi, Jo Anne Schachtschneider, Donna Zaruk, Maryl DeJong, Julie Narayan

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A retrospective analysis was conducted on air samples that were collected in 2005 under the Global Atmospheric Passive Sampling (GAPS) Network around the time period when the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants came into force. Results are presented for several new flame retardants, including hexabromocyclododecane (HBCD), which was recently listed under the Convention (2013). These results represent the first global-scale distributions in air for these compounds. The targeted compounds are shown to have unique global distributions in air, which highlights the challenges in understanding the sources and environmental fate of each chemical, and ultimately in their assessments as persistent organic pollutants. The study also demonstrates the feasibility of using the PUF disk passive air sampler to study these new flame retardants in air, many of which exist entirely in the particle-phase as demonstrated in this study using a KOA-based partitioning model.

Idioma originalInglés
Páginas (desde-hasta)62-69
Número de páginas8
PublicaciónEnvironmental Pollution
Volumen217
DOI
EstadoPublicada - 2016
Publicado de forma externa

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Áreas temáticas de ASJC Scopus

  • Toxicología
  • Contaminación
  • Salud, toxicología y mutagénesis

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