Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) in the environment: Recent updates on sampling, pretreatment, cleanup technologies and their analysis

AVB Reddy, M Moniruzzaman… - Chemical Engineering …, 2019 - Elsevier
… the samples using filters or passive sampling systems… PCBs in the environmental samples.
In this section, we have described the specific sampling techniques for the collection of PCBs

… of an analytical procedure for polychlorinated biphenyls, coplanar polychlorinated biphenyls and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in environmental samples

A Jaouen-Madoulet, A Abarnou, AM Le Guellec… - … of Chromatography A, 2000 - Elsevier
… of PCBs (polychlorinated biphenyls), coplanar PCBs and PAHs (polycyclic aromatic
hydrocarbons) from the same sample. … Coplanar PCBs are isolated from the first fraction (PCBs) by …

Environmental occurrence, abundance, and potential toxicity of polychlorinated biphenyl congeners: considerations for a congener-specific analysis.

VA McFarland, JU Clarke - Environmental health perspectives, 1989 - ehp.niehs.nih.gov
… biological effects attributable to PCBs inan environmental sample. Group 1A … environmental
samples. Group 2 congeners are PB-type inducers that are also prevalent in the environment

Polychlorinated biphenyls: environmental occurrence and analysis

S Safe, L Safe, M Mullin - Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs): mammalian …, 1987 - Springer
… This approach is presently feasible since the toxic PCB congeners have been identified (57-59)
and these compounds can be unambiguously quantitated in environmental samples

Pattern recognition for classification and determination of polychlorinated biphenyls in environmental samples

WJ Dunn, DL Stalling, TR Schwartz… - Analytical …, 1984 - ACS Publications
… In addition, it is required that there be no systematic variation between samples of the
same Aroclor class. Moreover, PCBs accumulated in environmental samples could undergo …

A review of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) pollution in indoor air environment

Q Dai, X Min, M Weng - Journal of the Air & Waste Management …, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
… harm of PCBs, summarizes the sampling, extracting, and analytical methods of environment
… paper can provide a basic summary for PCBs pollution control in the indoor air environment. …

A simple, novel method for the quantitative analysis of coplanar (non-ortho substituted) polychlorinated biphenyls in environmental samples

R Lazar, RC Edwards, CD Metcalfe, T Metcalfe… - Chemosphere, 1992 - Elsevier
… A novel method is presented for the analysis of coplanar (ie non-ortho substituted)
polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) in environmental samples. The new procedure combines …

Pressurized fluid extraction of polychlorinated biphenyls in solid environmental samples

E Björklund, S Bøwadt, T Nilsson… - Journal of chromatography …, 1999 - Elsevier
… (not spiked) polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) from solid environmental samples by means
… Solvent Extraction) according to US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Method 3545, …

Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) in Africa: a review of environmental levels

R Gioia, AJ Akindele, SA Adebusoye… - Environmental Science …, 2014 - Springer
… Worldwide monitoring programs have shown that PCBs are present in most samples of
human milk. In February 2013, 26 experts from 12 countries met at the International Agency for …

Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs): environmental impact, biochemical and toxic responses, and implications for risk assessment

SH Safe - Critical reviews in toxicology, 1994 - Taylor & Francis
environmental impacts of PCBs. In the mid-l960s, Soren Jensen first detected PCBs in
environmental samplesenvironmental samples for DDT and related compounds.26 Subsequent …