Adsorption of emerging contaminants from water and wastewater by modified biochar: A review

N Cheng, B Wang, P Wu, X Lee, Y Xing, M Chen… - Environmental …, 2021 - Elsevier
Emerging contaminants (ECs), a group of relatively low-concentration but high-toxicity
pollutants in the environment, have attracted widespread attention in recent years. These …

Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) in the environment: occupational and exposure events, effects on human health and fertility

L Montano, C Pironti, G Pinto, M Ricciardi, A Buono… - Toxics, 2022 - mdpi.com
In the last decade or so, polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) garnered renewed attention in
the scientific community due to new evidence pointing at their continued presence in the …

EDC-2: the Endocrine Society's second scientific statement on endocrine-disrupting chemicals

AC Gore, VA Chappell, SE Fenton, JA Flaws… - Endocrine …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
Abstract The Endocrine Society's first Scientific Statement in 2009 provided a wake-up call to
the scientific community about how environmental endocrine-disrupting chemicals (EDCs) …

[HTML][HTML] Environmental chemicals and breast cancer: An updated review of epidemiological literature informed by biological mechanisms

KM Rodgers, JO Udesky, RA Rudel, JG Brody - Environmental research, 2018 - Elsevier
Background Many common environmental chemicals are mammary gland carcinogens in
animal studies, activate relevant hormonal pathways, or enhance mammary gland …

Key characteristics of carcinogens as a basis for organizing data on mechanisms of carcinogenesis

MT Smith, KZ Guyton, CF Gibbons… - Environmental …, 2016 - ehp.niehs.nih.gov
Background: A recent review by the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC)
updated the assessments of the> 100 agents classified as Group 1, carcinogenic to humans …

Metabolism and metabolites of polychlorinated biphenyls

FA Grimm, D Hu, I Kania-Korwel… - Critical reviews in …, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
The metabolism of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) is complex and has an impact on
toxicity, and thereby on the assessment of PCB risks. A large number of reactive and stable …

Applying the Bradford Hill criteria in the 21st century: how data integration has changed causal inference in molecular epidemiology

KM Fedak, A Bernal, ZA Capshaw, S Gross - Emerging themes in …, 2015 - Springer
Abstract In 1965, Sir Austin Bradford Hill published nine “viewpoints” to help determine if
observed epidemiologic associations are causal. Since then, the “Bradford Hill Criteria” …

Reviewing the relevance of dioxin and PCB sources for food from animal origin and the need for their inventory, control and management

R Weber, C Herold, H Hollert, J Kamphues… - Environmental Sciences …, 2018 - Springer
Background In the past, cases of PCDD/F and PCB contamination exceeding limits in food
from animal origin (eggs, meat or milk) were mainly caused by industrially produced feed …

Phytoremediation and bioremediation of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs): state of knowledge and research perspectives

L Passatore, S Rossetti, AA Juwarkar… - Journal of hazardous …, 2014 - Elsevier
This review summarizes the bioremediation and phytoremediation technologies proposed
so far to detoxify PCB-contaminated sites. A critical analysis about the potential and limits of …

Neurotoxicity of polychlorinated biphenyls and related organohalogens

IN Pessah, PJ Lein, RF Seegal, SK Sagiv - Acta neuropathologica, 2019 - Springer
Halogenated organic compounds are pervasive in natural and built environments. Despite
restrictions on the production of many of these compounds in most parts of the world through …