background: polychlorinated biphenyls (pcbs) are synthetic aromatic compounds containing two benzene rings with one to ten chlorine atoms. there are concerns about the health risks of these compounds in the environment due to their toxicity, persistence, and biological accumulation. pcbs wastes must be treated before being discharged to the environment because they will pollute the water, soil,...

background: in this study, the inhibition rate of different oil concentrations containing pcbs (1242 and 1254 pcb arochlors) on the anaerobic biomass was investigated by specific methanogenic activity using the vials with volume of 120 ml. methods: original samples were divided into two groups: with soil containing pcbs and without pcbs and the control samples in both cases were just contained ...

Polychlorinated biphenyls are persistent organic pollutants that are consumed because of their bioaccumulation through the food chain. Evidence from different sources suggests a positive association between polychlorinated biphenyls exposure and the incidence of hypertension. However, no previous prospective study has investigated this potential relationship in adults. We prospectively assessed...

We report the 5,728,255-bp draft genome sequence of Rhodococcus ruber P25, isolated from a soil polluted with halogenated aromatic compounds in the city of Perm, Russia. The strain degrades polychlorinated biphenyls and a broad range of aromatic compounds. It possesses genes that mediate the degradation of biphenyls/polychlorinated biphenyls, naphthalene, and monoaromatic compounds.

wastewater contains a variety of chemical substances owing to the different sources that contribute to affluent into sewage treatment plants. raw and wastewater samples were obtained from the surface of the water bodies at depths of 50 and 100 metres but at different locations in each sampling site. the water samples were subjected to extraction of polychlorinated biphenyls (pcbs) using quecher...

background: in this research, the decomposition of aroclor 1254, including 20 kinds of poly chlorinated biphenyls (pcbs), in real waste transformer oil in the presence of peg1000, naoh, zero valent iron and h2o by microwave (mw) irradiation was studied. methods: central composites design (ccd) method was carried out for experimental design. the effects of microwave power levels (200- 1000 w), r...

Octanol-water partition coefficient of two hundred and six polychlorinated biphenyls was model by the use of an original method based on complex information obtained from compounds structure. The regression analysis shows that best results are obtained in four-varied model (r = 0.9168). The prediction ability of the model was studied through leave-one-out analysis (rcv(loo) = 0.9093) and in tra...

Introduction Background Purpose and scope Acknowledgments Data sources and analyses Data sources Data analyses Spatial distribution of polychlorinated biphenyls in common carp and walleye in the Mississippi, Minnesota, and St. Croix Rivers Comparison among individual sites Comparison among river segments Temporal distribution of polychlorinated biphenyls in common carp and walleye in the Missis...

BACKGROUND In utero exposure to polychlorinated biphenyls, a ubiquitous environmental contaminant, has been linked to adverse effects on neurologic and intellectual function in infants and young children. We assessed whether these effects persist through school age and examined their importance in the acquisition of reading and arithmetic skills. METHODS We tested 212 children, recruited as n...