The need to investigate continuums of plastic particle diversity, brackish environments and trophic transfer to assess the risk of micro and nanoplastics on aquatic …

O Latchère, T Audroin, J Hétier, I Métais… - Environmental Pollution, 2021 - Elsevier
Plastic particles are ubiquitous in marine and freshwater environments. While many studies
have focused on the toxicity of microplastics (MPs) and nanoplastics (NPs) in aquatic …

Critical review of the analysis of brominated flame retardants and their environmental levels in Africa

M Brits, J De Vos, JM Weiss, ER Rohwer, J De Boer - Chemosphere, 2016 - Elsevier
World-wide, the prevalence of brominated flame retardants (BFRs) is well documented for
routine analysis of environmental and biological matrices. There is, however, limited …

PFAS accumulation in indigenous and translocated aquatic organisms from Belgium, with translation to human and ecological health risk

L Teunen, L Bervoets, C Belpaire, M De Jonge… - Environmental Sciences …, 2021 - Springer
Background Despite specific restrictions on their production and use, per-and polyfluoralkyl
substances (PFAS) are still omnipresent in the environment, including aquatic ecosystems …

Trophic magnification of organic chemicals: A global synthesis

DM Walters, TD Jardine, BS Cade… - Environmental …, 2016 - ACS Publications
Production of organic chemicals (OCs) is increasing exponentially, and some OCs
biomagnify through food webs to potentially toxic levels. Biomagnification under field …

Bioaccumulation and human health risk assessment of DDT and other organochlorine pesticides in an apex aquatic predator from a premier conservation area

R Gerber, NJ Smit, JHJ Van Vuren… - Science of the Total …, 2016 - Elsevier
With the second highest gross domestic product in Africa, South Africa is known to have a
high pesticide usage, including the highly persistent and banned group of organochlorine …

Distribution of perfluorinated compounds (PFASs) in the aquatic environment of the industrially polluted Vaal River, South Africa

T Groffen, V Wepener, W Malherbe… - Science of the Total …, 2018 - Elsevier
Perfluorinated alkyl substances (PFASs) are highly persistent chemicals, which have a
bioaccumulative potential and can be found in wildlife around the world. Although multiple …

Organochlorine pesticides across the tributaries of River Ravi, Pakistan: Human health risk assessment through dermal exposure, ecological risks, source fingerprints …

M Baqar, Y Sadef, SR Ahmad, A Mahmood, J Li… - Science of the Total …, 2018 - Elsevier
This study monitored the human health risks through dermal exposure, hazardous risks to
ecological integrity, contamination levels, spatio-temporal distribution, and congener specific …

Polychlorinated biphenyls and organochlorine pesticides in water and sediment from Volturno River, Southern Italy: occurrence, distribution and risk assessment

P Montuori, E De Rosa, P Sarnacchiaro… - Environmental Sciences …, 2020 - Springer
Abstract Background To assess the Volturno River pollution and its environmental impact on
the Tyrrhenian Sea (Central Mediterranean Sea) caused by Polychlorinated biphenyls …

Persistent organic pollutants in the Olifants River Basin, South Africa: Bioaccumulation and trophic transfer through a subtropical aquatic food web

V Verhaert, N Newmark, W D'Hollander… - Science of the total …, 2017 - Elsevier
This study investigates the trophic transfer of persistent organic pollutants (POPs: PCBs,
PBDEs, OCPs and PFASs) in the subtropical aquatic ecosystem of the Olifants River Basin …

Accumulation of toxic metals and organic micro-pollutants in sediments from tropical urban rivers, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo

PI Kilunga, P Sivalingam, A Laffite, D Grandjean… - Chemosphere, 2017 - Elsevier
The increasing contamination of fresh water resource by toxic metals and Persistence
Organic Pollutants (POPs) is a major environmental concern globally. In the present …