Persistent organic pollutants in environment of the Pearl River Delta, China: an overview

J Fu, B Mai, G Sheng, G Zhang, X Wang, X ** industrial and agricultural activities,
municipal development and use of chemicals caused serious environmental problems. This …

China's water pollution by persistent organic pollutants

LJ Bao, KA Maruya, SA Snyder, EY Zeng - Environmental Pollution, 2012 - Elsevier
Available data were reviewed to assess the status of contamination by persistent organic
pollutants (POPs), including organochlorine pesticides (OCPs), polychlorinated biphenyls …

Widespread Occurrence and Transport of p-Phenylenediamines and Their Quinones in Sediments across Urban Rivers, Estuaries, Coasts, and Deep-Sea Regions

L Zeng, Y Li, Y Sun, LY Liu, M Shen… - Environmental Science & …, 2023 - ACS Publications
p-Phenylenediamines (PPDs) are widely used as antioxidants in tire rubber, and their
derived quinone transformation products (PPD-Qs) may pose a threat to marine ecosystems …

Contribution of dicofol to the current DDT pollution in China

X Qiu, T Zhu, B Yao, J Hu, S Hu - Environmental Science & …, 2005 - ACS Publications
High DDT concentrations and o, p '-DDT/p, p '-DDT ratios observed in the air over Taihu
Lake, a lake near Shanghai, China, led us to suggest that current use of dicofol in the area …

Efficient transformation of DDTs with persulfate activation by zero-valent iron nanoparticles: a mechanistic study

C Zhu, G Fang, DD Dionysiou, C Liu, J Gao… - Journal of Hazardous …, 2016 - Elsevier
In this study, persulfate (PS) activation by nano-Fe 0 was used to degrade
dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (DDT), and the mechanism of this process was elucidated …

Occurrence, spatial distribution, historical trend and ecological risk of phthalate esters in the Jiulong River, Southeast China

R Li, J Liang, Z Gong, N Zhang, H Duan - Science of the Total Environment, 2017 - Elsevier
The occurrence and spatial distribution of phthalate esters (PAEs) in the Jiulong River of
southeast China were investigated in water and sediment samples collected from 35 …

Distribution of polybrominated diphenyl ethers in sediments of the Pearl River Delta and adjacent South China Sea

Mai, Chen, Luo, Chen, Yang, Sheng, Peng… - … science & technology, 2005 - ACS Publications
Spatial and temporal distributions of polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs) in sediments
of the Pearl River Delta (PRD) and adjacent South China Sea (SCS) of southern China were …

Distribution of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in the coastal region off Macao, China: assessment of input sources and transport pathways using compositional …

Mai, S Qi, EY Zeng, Yang, G Zhang, J Fu… - Environmental …, 2003 - ACS Publications
The coastal region off Macao is a known depositional zone for persistent organic pollutants
(POPs) in the Pearl River Delta and Estuary of southern China and an important gateway for …

Determination and fate of oxytetracycline and related compounds in oxytetracycline production wastewater and the receiving river

D Li, M Yang, J Hu, L Ren, Y Zhang… - … and Chemistry: An …, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
This study investigated the occurrence and fate of oxytetracycline (OTC) and its related
substances, 4‐epi‐oxytetracycline (EOTC), α‐apo‐oxytetracycline (α‐apo‐OTC), and β‐apo …

The environmental issues of DDT pollution and bioremediation: a multidisciplinary review

A Mansouri, M Cregut, C Abbes, MJ Durand… - Applied biochemistry …, 2017 - Springer
Abstract DDT (1, 1, 1-trichloro-2, 2-bis (4-chlorophenyl) ethane) is probably the best known
and most useful organochlorine insecticide in the world which was used since 1945 for …