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Environmental Earth Sciences
Published in: Environmental Earth Sciences 5/2015

01-09-2015 | Original Article

Levels and potential health hazards of PCBs in shallow groundwater of an e-waste recycling area, China

Authors: Chunfa Wu, Hao Zhu, Yongming Luo, Ying Teng, Jing Song, Mengfang Chen

Published in: Environmental Earth Sciences | Issue 5/2015

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Abstract

The improper disassembly of polychlorinated biphenyl (PCB)-containing equipments such as capacitor and electrical transformer can lead to PCB pollution. To investigate the levels and patterns of PCBs in shallow groundwater in regions where PCB-containing equipment is disassembled, 19 shallow groundwater samples were collected from a recycling area for waste capacitors and electrical transformers in southeastern China. The Σ21 PCBs in shallow groundwater had a large variation ranging from 6.22 to 97.3 ng L−1, with a mean of 31.6 ng L−1 and low chlorinated PCBs (3–5 chlorinated biphenyls) were predominant homologs in majority groundwater samples. The United States Environmental Protection Agency (US EPA) toxic equivalents of 6 shallow groundwater samples with detectable dioxin-like PCBs varied greatly from 0.29 to 650 pg L−1, and all of them posing serious cancer risk (>1 × 10−6) to children and adults. Much attention should be paid to the vertical migration of low chlorinated PCBs and the cancer risk of dioxin-like PCBs in the study area and similar e-waste recycling areas.
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Metadata
Title
Levels and potential health hazards of PCBs in shallow groundwater of an e-waste recycling area, China
Authors
Chunfa Wu
Hao Zhu
Yongming Luo
Ying Teng
Jing Song
Mengfang Chen
Publication date
01-09-2015
Publisher
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Published in
Environmental Earth Sciences / Issue 5/2015
Print ISSN: 1866-6280
Electronic ISSN: 1866-6299
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s12665-015-4427-2

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