Review of 'emerging'organic contaminants in biosolids and assessment of international research priorities for the agricultural use of biosolids

BO Clarke, SR Smith - Environment international, 2011 - Elsevier
A broad spectrum of organic chemicals is essential to modern society. Once discharged from
industrial, domestic and urban sources into the urban wastewater collection system they …

The 2005 World Health Organization reevaluation of human and mammalian toxic equivalency factors for dioxins and dioxin-like compounds

M Van den Berg, LS Birnbaum, M Denison… - Toxicological …, 2006 - academic.oup.com
Abstract In June 2005, a World Health Organization (WHO)-International Programme on
Chemical Safety expert meeting was held in Geneva during which the toxic equivalency …

Global footprints of organochlorine pesticides: a pan-global survey

C Keswani, H Dilnashin, H Birla, P Roy… - Environmental …, 2022 - Springer
Organochlorine pesticides (OCPs) are ubiquitous environmental contaminants widely used
all over the world. These chlorinated hydrocarbons are toxic and often cause detrimental …

PAHs, PCBs, PCNs, Organochlorine Pesticides, Synthetic Musks, and Polychlorinated n-Alkanes in UK Sewage Sludge:  Survey Results and Implications

JL Stevens, GL Northcott, GA Stern… - Environmental …, 2003 - ACS Publications
A survey of the digested sludge from 14 UK wastewater treatment plants was carried out to
obtain contemporary UK data on the concentrations of certain classes of persistent organic …

Dechlorination of triclosan by enhanced atomic hydrogen-mediated electrochemical reduction: Kinetics, mechanism, and toxicity assessment

R Mao, C Huang, X Zhao, M Ma, J Qu - Applied Catalysis B: Environmental, 2019 - Elsevier
Environmental-friendly and efficient technologies for the removal of halogenated organic
compounds in water are highly desired. Triclosan (TCS) is a potential threat to the …

The toxicological profile of polychlorinated naphthalenes (PCNs)

AR Fernandes, A Kilanowicz, J Stragierowicz… - Science of the Total …, 2022 - Elsevier
The legacy of polychlorinated naphthalenes (PCNs) manufactured during the last century
continues to persist in the environment, food and humans. Metrological advances have …

Building a tiered approach to in vitro predictive toxicity screening: a focus on assays with in vivo relevance

J McKim, M James - Combinatorial chemistry & high throughput …, 2010 - ingentaconnect.com
One of the greatest challenges facing the pharmaceutical industry today is the failure of
promising new drug candidates due to unanticipated adverse effects discovered during …

Brominated dioxin-like compounds: in vitro assessment in comparison to classical dioxin-like compounds and other polyaromatic compounds

PA Behnisch, K Hosoe, S Sakai - Environment International, 2003 - Elsevier
Recently, several countries agreed to adopt the Stockholm convention on persistent organic
pollutants (POPs). One future obligation will be to add other POPs as new evidence …

The aryl hydrocarbon receptor: A predominant mediator for the toxicity of emerging dioxin-like compounds

W Zhang, HQ Xie, Y Li, M Zhou, Z Zhou, R Wang… - Journal of hazardous …, 2022 - Elsevier
The aryl hydrocarbon receptor (AHR) is a member of the basic helix-loop-helix/Per-ARNT-
Sim (bHLH-PAS) family of transcription factors and has broad biological functions. Early after …

Chlorinated and brominated polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons: sources, formation mechanisms, and occurrence in the environment

R Jin, M Zheng, G Lammel, BAM Bandowe… - Progress in Energy and …, 2020 - Elsevier
Chlorinated and brominated polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (ClPAHs and BrPAHs;
XPAHs) are carcinogenic organic pollutants which are mainly produced and emitted from …