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ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION
Volume 196, Issue -, Pages 284-291Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2014.10.007
Keywords
Air monitoring; Bioaccumulation; Long-range transport; Polar bears; Ringed seals; Seabirds
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- Danish Environmental Protection Agency under the Danish Cooperation for Environment in the Arctic (DANCEA) [MST-112-00126]
- Villum Fonden [00007236] Funding Source: researchfish
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Following the ban of polybrominated diphenyl ethers, other halogenated flame retardants (FRs) might be used increasingly. This study has analyzed hexabromocyclododecane (HBCD), 1,2-bis(2,4,6-tribromophenoxy)-ethane (BTBPE), 2,3-dibromopropy1-2,4,6-tribromophenyl ether (DPTE) and dechlorane plus (DP) in Greenland air over the course of a year. Moreover, BTBPE, DPTE, DP, 2-ethylhexyl-2,3,4,5-tetrabromobenzoate (TBB), bis(2-ethylhexyl)tetrabromophthalate (TBPH) and decabromodiphenyl ethane (DBDPE) were analyzed in samples of polar bear, ringed seal, black guillemot and glaucous gull from Greenland. HBCD in air appeared low, while mean concentrations of syn- and anti-DP were 2.3 and 5.2 pg/m(3), respectively. BTBPE and DPTE were undetectable in air. Detection frequencies in biota were <50% for BTBPE, TBPH and DBDPE, but near 100% for the remaining compounds. Ringed seals from East Greenland had highest mean concentrations of TBB, DPTE, syn- and anti-DP (1.02, 0.078, 0.096 and 0.42 ng/g wet weight, respectively). Our study documents the long-range transport and, to some extent, bioaccumulation of these novel FRs. (C) 2014 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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