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ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION
Volume 158, Issue 10, Pages 3138-3143Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2010.06.040
Keywords
Bisphenol A (BPA); Organic aerosols; Plastic burning; 1,3,5-Triphenylbenzene; Size distribution
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- Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) [17340166]
- Ministry of the Environment, Japan [B-0903]
- Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS)
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [17340166] Funding Source: KAKEN
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Bisphenol A (BPA) is a suspected endocrine disruptor in the environment. However, little is known about its distribution and transport in the atmosphere. Here, the concentrations of BPA in the atmospheric aerosols from urban, rural, marine, and the polar regions were measured using solvent extraction/derivatization and gas chromatography/mass spectrometry technique. The concentrations of BRA (1-17,400 pg m(-3)) ranged over 4 orders of magnitude in the world with a declining trend from the continent (except for the Antarctica) to remote sites. A positive correlation was found between BPA and 1,3,5-triphenylbenzene, a tracer for plastic burning, in urban regions, indicating that the open burning of plastics in domestic waste should be a significant emission source of atmospheric BRA. Our results suggest that the ubiquity of BRA in the atmosphere may raise a requirement for the evaluation of health effects of BRA in order to control its emission sources, for example, from plastic burning. (c) 2010 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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