Organophosphate ester pollution in the oceans

Z Xie, P Wang, X Wang, J Castro-Jiménez… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2022 - nature.com
The large-scale use of organophosphate esters (OPEs) as flame retardants and plasticizers
has led to their prevalence in the environment, with still unknown broader impacts. This …

Insights into the geographical distribution, bioaccumulation characteristics, and ecological risks of organophosphate esters

Z Yan, C Feng, KMY Leung, Y Luo, J Wang… - Journal of Hazardous …, 2023 - Elsevier
Organophosphate esters (OPEs), as flame retardants and plasticizers, have been
numerously explored regarding the occurrence and ecotoxicology. Given their toxicity …

Sources, behaviors, transformations, and environmental risks of organophosphate esters in the coastal environment: A review

Z Chen, C An, M Elektorowicz, X Tian - Marine Pollution Bulletin, 2022 - Elsevier
The rapid growth in the global production of organophosphate esters (OPEs) has resulted in
their high environmental concentrations. The low removal rate of OPEs makes the effluents …

Distribution, partitioning, and health risk assessment of organophosphate esters in a major tributary of middle Yangtze River using Monte Carlo simulation

M Lian, C Lin, Y Li, X Hao, A Wang, M He, X Liu… - Water Research, 2022 - Elsevier
Globally, organophosphate esters (OPEs) have attracted substantial attention because of
their ubiquity in the environment, toxicity, and potential ecological and health risks. This …

Occurrence, spatiotemporal variation, and ecological risks of organophosphate esters in the water and sediment of the middle and lower streams of the Yellow River …

W Li, Y Yuan, S Wang, X Liu - Journal of Hazardous Materials, 2023 - Elsevier
Research on the environmental occurrence and behavior of organophosphate esters
(OPEs) is very imperative. In this study, 12 targeted OPEs in the water and sediment …

Organophosphate esters in China: fate, occurrence, and human exposure

Z Hu, L Yin, X Wen, C Jiang, Y Long, J Zhang, R Liu - Toxics, 2021 - mdpi.com
Organophosphate esters (OPEs) are widely used as flame retardants and plasticizers. OPEs
have been released into various environments (eg, water, sediments, dust and air, and soil) …

Occurrence, spatial variation, seasonal difference, and ecological risk assessment of organophosphate esters in the Yangtze River, China: From the upper to lower …

S Li, Y Wan, Y Wang, Z He, S Xu, W Xia - Science of The Total Environment, 2022 - Elsevier
A comprehensive contamination profile of organophosphate esters (OPEs) in the Yangtze
River in China has not yet been characterized. In this study, we investigated the occurrence …

Organic contaminants of emerging concern in global estuaries: Environmental occurrence, fate, and bioavailability

Y Wu, R Jin, Q Chen, X Du, J Yang… - Critical Reviews in …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Organic contaminants of emerging concern (OCECs) originating from assorted sources have
attracted increasing attention latterly as most of them are not under routine surveillance or …

Organophosphate esters in the seawater of the Bohai Sea: Environmental occurrence, sources and ecological risks

R Xing, P Zhang, N Zheng, H Ji, R Shi, L Ge… - Marine Pollution Bulletin, 2023 - Elsevier
Organophosphate esters (OPEs) are widely distributed in surface water systems, but limited
information was available on the spatial occurrence and ecological risks of OPEs in the …

Spatial and temporal variability and risk assessment of organophosphate esters in seawater and sediments of the Yangtze River estuary

J Lin, L Liao, T Sun, J Gu, X Yang, L Zhang, Z Gao… - Marine Pollution …, 2024 - Elsevier
Organophosphate esters (OPEs) as substitutes for PBDEs have been widely detected in the
marine environment, while little is known about the pollution characteristics and variation of …