ArticleEnvironmental geochemistry and health2018
Polychlorinated biphenyls and their hydroxylated metabolites in the serum of e-waste dismantling workers from eastern China.
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- Hydroxylated Polychlorinated Biphenyls Are Emerging Legacy Pollutants in Contaminated Sediments.Environmental science & technology · 2022Article
- Forty years studies on polychlorinated biphenyls pollution, food safety, health risk, and human health in an e-waste recycling area from Taizhou city, China: a review.Environmental science and pollution research international · 2022Review
- Non-dioxin-like polychlorinated biphenyl neurotoxic equivalents found in environmental and human samples.Regulatory toxicology and pharmacology : RTP · 2021Article
- Bridging the Energy Benefit and POPs Emission Risk from Waste Incineration.Innovation (Cambridge (Mass.)) · 2021Article
- Effects of Prepubertal Exposure to Aroclor-1221 on Reproductive Development and Transcriptional Gene Expression in Female Rats.Reproductive sciences (Thousand Oaks, Calif.) · 2021Article
- Derivatization gas chromatography negative chemical ionization mass spectrometry for the analysis of trace organic pollutants and their metabolites in human biological samples.Analytical and bioanalytical chemistry · 2020Review
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- Electronic Waste Recycling: Occupational Exposures and Work-Related Health Effects.Current environmental health reports · 2019Review
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- Air pollution and body burden of persistent organic pollutants at an electronic waste recycling area of China.Environmental geochemistry and health · 2019Article
- Heavy metal exposure has adverse effects on the growth and development of preschool children.Environmental geochemistry and health · 2019Article
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Abstract
A number of studies have reported on the exposure of e-waste dismantling workers to significantly high concentrations of halogenated organic pollutants such as polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) and polybrominated diphenyl ethers. Such exposure can have adverse health effects. However, little information on the metabolites of these contaminants exists. In this study, we investigated PCBs levels and their hydroxylated metabolites (OH-PCB) in the serum of e-waste workers in Taizhou in eastern China. Our results indicate elevated PCB and OH-PCB levels in the serum of the workers, with medians of 443.7 and 133.9 ng/g lw, respectively. Tri- to hexachlorinated PCB congeners were the dominant homologue groups in all of the samples. 4-OH-CB107 was the predominant homologue among the hydroxylated metabolites, accounting for 88.9% of the total OH-PCB concentrations. While dietary sources (e.g., fish) appear to be an important route for PCB accumulation in non-occupational exposure groups, exposure via ingestion of house dust and inhalation of pollutants derived from the recycling of PCB-containing e-wastes may primarily contribute to the high body burden observed in the occupational groups. Since we found concentrations of metabolites higher than those of their parent compounds, further studies need to pay more attention to their bioaccumulation and toxicity.
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