Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) were used in many construction products until their banning the 1970s and 1980s. Nonetheless, exposure to PCBs from contaminated indoor air is still an important public health issue. The aim of our study was estimate contribution PCB congeners levels human blood. We analyzed all 209 blood 35 individuals exposed air. For each individual, we measured six marker in...

Dioxin, a powerful hormone-disrupting chemical, exhibits serious health effects when it reaches body fat. Here we analyzed coplanar polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) and polychlorinated-dibenzo-p-dioxins (PCDDs) in human saliva as compared with blood specimens, and examined their effects on human gingival epithelial cells (HGEC). High levels of tri- and tetrachlorinated PCBs were found in saliva...

Non-dioxin-like (NDL) polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) are widespread environmental contaminants previously associated with neurological disorders in children. In a new study funded in part by the University of California (UC), Davis Superfund Research Program, UC Davis investigators working in collaboration with colleagues at Washington State University demonstrated a novel mechanism of PCB de...

Dietary polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) caused hypercholesterolaemia in rats. The concentration and output of biliary cholesterol was significantly lower than that of the control group. Biliary output of total bile acids was significantly decreased in rats given the PCB-supplemented diet. Faecal excretion of total steroids (sum of neutral steroids and acidic steroids) was not significantly cha...

Congener-specific analyses of polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins (PCDDs), polychlorinated dibenzofurans (PCDFs) and polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) were performed on twenty-eight non-pooled fast food samples collected in Belgium, Switzerland, Czech Republic, United States of America and Australia. PCDD/F and PCB concentrations for the four investigated types of meals were very low. PCDD/F value...

In the past few years considerable scientific information has appeared on the chemistry and biological effects of the PCBs and related materials. The amount of chemical investigation, and especially the biological effects investigation that can be done on these products, is almost limitless. Even though the PCBs show a great deal of inertness, a property very useful in their industrial applicat...

Fig. 1. An engineering technologist sets up an apparatus in which PCB-contaminated liquid will be exposed to chemicals which remove the chlorine from the compound, transforming the PCBs into non-regulated chemicals. Base-catalyzed destruction (BCD) of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) is a process in which the halogen molecules on PCBs are replaced with aliphatic hydrocarbons (or in some cases h...

Several bacterial isolates were characterized based on their abilities to degrade specific polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) and their 16s rRNA gene sequences. The members of one group of bacteria consisting of Alcaligenes species, including the PCB-degrading bacterium Alcaligenes eutrophus H850, had strong abilities to degrade a broad range of PCBs but not the di-para-chlorine-substituted conge...