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Sci Total Environ. 2017 May 15;586:107-114. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2016.11.054. Epub 2017 Jan 04.

Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) in the atmosphere of three Chilean cities using passive air samplers.

The Science of the total environment

Karla Pozo, Germán Oyola, Victor H Estellano, Tom Harner, Anny Rudolph, Petra Prybilova, Petr Kukucka, Ondrej Audi, Jana Klánová, America Metzdorff, Silvano Focardi

Affiliations

  1. Universidad Católica de la Santísima Concepción, Facultad de Ciencias, Concepción, Chile; Universidad Católica de la Santísima Concepción, Centro de Investigación en Biodiversidad y Ambientes Sustentables (CIBAS), Concepción, Chile; Masaryk University, Faculty of Science, Research Center for Toxic Compounds in the Environment (RECETOX), Brno, Czech Republic; Universitá degli Studi di Siena, Dipartimento Scienze fisiche, della Terra e dell'ambiente, Siena, Italy. Electronic address: [email protected].
  2. Ministery of the Environment (MMA), Air Quality Division and Climate change, Santiago, Chile.
  3. Universitá degli Studi di Siena, Dipartimento Scienze fisiche, della Terra e dell'ambiente, Siena, Italy.
  4. Air Quality Processes Research Section, Environment and Climate Change Canada, Toronto, ON, Canada.
  5. Universidad Católica de la Santísima Concepción, Facultad de Ciencias, Concepción, Chile.
  6. Masaryk University, Faculty of Science, Research Center for Toxic Compounds in the Environment (RECETOX), Brno, Czech Republic.
  7. Universidad Católica de la Santísima Concepción, Facultad de Ciencias, Concepción, Chile; Universitá degli Studi di Siena, Dipartimento Scienze fisiche, della Terra e dell'ambiente, Siena, Italy.

PMID: 28063657 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2016.11.054

Abstract

In this study passive air samplers containing polyurethane foam (PUF) disks were deployed in three cities across Chile; Santiago (STG) (n=5, sampling sites), Concepciόn (CON) (n=6) and Temuco (TEM) (n=6) from 2008 to 2009. Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) (7 indicator congeners), chlorinated pesticides hexachlorocyclohexanes (HCHs), dichlorodiphenyl trichloroethanes (DDTs) and flame retardants such as polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs) were determined by gas chromatography coupled mass spectrometry (GC/MS). A sampling rate (R) typical of urban sites (4m

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Keywords: Chile; GRULAC; PAS-PUF; PBDEs; POPs; Urban atmosphere

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