Journal
SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT
Volume 634, Issue -, Pages 983-989Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2018.04.080
Keywords
Fragrance Materials (FMs); Personal Care Products (PCPs); Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons (PAHs); Seawater; Mediterranean
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- Italian Ministry for Education, University and Research's RITMARE flagship project
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The Mediterranean Sea is highly influenced by several anthropic pressures, including different kinds of organic pollutants. Fragrance Materials (FMs) and Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons (PAHs) were investigated in the surface seawater of the Sicily Channel in offshore and coastal areas. Total concentrations of FMs and PAHs resulted respectively up to 112 ng L-1 and 43 ng L-1, with similar distributions of both classes of analytes. Low values were detected in some coastal samples, due to the upwelling of deep and unpolluted waters, while the presence of gyres probably accumulates contaminants in offshore areas. Confirming previous works, the allergenic and oestrogenic Salicylates generally resulted the most abundant FMs and diagnostic ratios indicated combustion processes as the sources of PAHs. The coupling of thewell-known PAHswith a newclass of Personal Care Products (PCPs) helped the identification of the major environmental drivers: the results highlighted the role of mesoscale hydrodynamics and suggested long-range atmospheric transport as key factors. The first detection of the selected FMs in open sea areas supports the hypothesis of their environmental persistence. (C) 2018 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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