Determination of Polybrominated Biphenyls in Foods and Plastics

Carcinogenicity of polychlorinated biphenyls and polybrominated biphenyls.

Monograph Working Group Members V J Cogliano (USA)–Chair; K Aronson, H Tryphonas (Canada); Y L Guo (Taiwan, China); M Machala (Czech Republic); E C Bonefeld-Jørgensen, K Vorkamp (Denmark) J P Cravedi, B Le Bizec, J F Narbonne (France); H Esch (Germany); P Cocco, F Merletti (Italy); R Vermeulen (unable to attend; Netherlands); A Agudo (Spain); N Johansson (Sweden); H Fiedler, N Hopf (Switzerland...

Polybrominated biphenyls 74 Hazard assessment of Polybrominated biphenyls

Polybrominated diphenyl ethers and polybrominated biphenyls in Australian sewage sludge.

This paper presents a brief review of the international scientific literature of polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs) and polybrominated biphenyls (PBBs) in sewage sludge and a survey of these compounds in sewage sludge from 16 Australian wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs). The SigmaPBDE mean concentration in the Australian study was 1137microgkg(-1) dry weight (d.w.) (s.d. 1116) and ranged ...

Human exposure to polychorinated biphenyls and polybrominated biphenyls

Although the polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) have been used in a wide variety of industrial applications in the U. S. from 1930 until 1970, when their distribution was voluntarily restricted to closed systems, there is scant information on human exposure to adverse human health effects in the U. S. In the U. S., minimal human exposure of the population to PCBs is limited to food, air, and wate...

Assessment of the hazards of polybrominated biphenyls.

During their peak use period, PBBs represented under 1% of the total sales of fire retardant chemicals, and very probably would have escaped intensive study if they had not been mixed accidentally with animal feed preparations. Instead, international attention was drawn to PBBs by the state-supervised killing of over 35,000 cattle which had been contaminated with PBBs. Interestingly, low doses ...