Emerging contaminants such as pharmaceuticals, personal care products, and endocrine
disrupting compounds are ever-present in environmental matrices and they are known to …

Pressurized liquid extraction (PLE) is a tool able to provide green extraction methods to
further determine contaminants in food and the environment. The aim of this review is to offer …

Particulate toxic species, such as polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins and polychlorinated
dibenzofurans (PCDD/Fs), polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) and heavy metals may …

The presence of emerging contaminants (EC) in the atmospheric environment of urban, rural
or even remote areas has become a significant issue for environmental science. This has …

Organophosphate flame retardants (OPFRs) have been adopted as safer alternatives to
polybrominated biphenyl ether flame retardants. However, because of their ubiquitous …

The intensive use of pesticides such as herbicides, insecticides, fungicides and acaricides
has been lead to ubiquitous contamination, being present not only in soils, water bodies …

Atmospheric particulate matter (PM) samples were collected from four ground-based sites
located in the Houston, TX (September 21–28, 2013) and were analyzed for 12 …

Organophosphate flame retardants (OPFRs) have been detected in the surface water,
suspended sediments, and river sediments from the Yangtze River in China. A modified …

A miniaturized and low-consuming solvent extraction procedure has been developed for the
simultaneous determination of 34 multiclass pesticides in PM 2.5 samples, using sample …

Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) are a group of organic compounds consisting of
two or more fused aromatic rings and are probably one of the most studied groups of organic …