Polychlorinated biphenyls in bovine milk from a typical informal electronic waste recycling and related source regions in southern India before and after the COVID-19 pandemic outbreak.

Dietary exposure E-waste Polychlorinated biphenyls Toxic equivalents

Journal

The Science of the total environment
ISSN: 1879-1026
Titre abrégé: Sci Total Environ
Pays: Netherlands
ID NLM: 0330500

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
25 Nov 2023
Historique:
received: 23 09 2023
revised: 20 11 2023
accepted: 23 11 2023
medline: 28 11 2023
pubmed: 28 11 2023
entrez: 28 11 2023
Statut: aheadofprint

Résumé

For more than a decade, Chennai city in southern India has been evidenced with informal electronic waste (e-waste) recycling and open burning practices as the potential sources for polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs). PCBs can bioaccumulate in livestock particularly cows grazing on the contaminated soil. The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic led to additional challenges associated with waste management practices. Hence this study aims to elucidate twenty-five PCB congeners in bovine milk from the previously reported PCB source regions in Chennai and the suburbs before and about three years of the pandemic outbreak along electronic waste recycling (EWR), open burning dumps (OBD), and residential (RES) transects. The geomean concentration of Ʃ

Identifiants

pubmed: 38013105
pii: S0048-9697(23)07508-3
doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.168879
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Types de publication

Journal Article

Langues

eng

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IM

Pagination

168879

Informations de copyright

Copyright © 2023. Published by Elsevier B.V.

Auteurs

K Ronnie Rex (KR)

Department Of Civil Engineering, College of Engineering and Technology, SRM Institute of Science and Technology, Kattankulathur, Chengalpattu district, Tamil Nadu 603203, India.

Paromita Chakraborty (P)

Environmental Science and Technology Laboratory, Centre for Research in Environment, Sustainability Advocacy and Climate CHange (REACH), SRM Institute of Science and Technology, Kattankulathur, Chengalpattu district, Tamil Nadu 603203, India. Electronic address: paromitc@srmist.edu.in.

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