Are the residents of former Yugoslavia still exposed to elevated PCB levels due to the Balkan wars? Part 2: Passive air sampling network.

KLÁNOVÁ, Jana, Jiří KOHOUTEK, Pavel ČUPR and Ivan HOLOUBEK. Are the residents of former Yugoslavia still exposed to elevated PCB levels due to the Balkan wars? Part 2: Passive air sampling network. Environment International. Amsterdam, The Netherlands: Elsevier, 2007, vol. 33, No 33, p. 727-735. ISSN 0160-4120.

Basic information

• Original name: Are the residents of former Yugoslavia still exposed to elevated PCB levels due to the Balkan wars? Part 2: Passive air sampling network.
• Name in Czech: Jsou obyvatelé bývalé Jugoslávie stále vystaveni zvýšeným hladinám PCBs jako důsledek Balkánských válek? Část 2: Síť pasivního vzorkování.
• Authors: KLÁNOVÁ, Jana (203 Czech Republic, guarantor), Jiří KOHOUTEK (203 Czech Republic), Pavel ČUPR (203 Czech Republic) and Ivan HOLOUBEK (203 Czech Republic).
• Edition: Environment International, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Elsevier, 2007, 0160-4120.

Other information

• Original language: English
• Type of outcome: Article in a journal
• Field of Study: 10511 Environmental sciences
• Country of publisher: Netherlands
• Confidentiality degree: is not subject to a state or trade secret
• Impact factor: Impact factor: 2.797
• RIV identification code: RIV/00216224:14310/07:00023687
• Organization unit: Faculty of Science
• UT WoS: 000248273700002
• Keywords in English: Persistent organic pollutants; Polychlorinated biphenyls; Atmosphere; Soil; High volume sampling; Passive air sampling; Balkan war; Yugoslavia
• Tags: Atmosphere, Balkan war, High volume sampling, passive air sampling, Persistent organic pollutants, Polychlorinated biphenyls, soil, Yugoslavia
• Tags: International impact, Reviewed

Abstract

Many Eastern European countries suffer the lack of data on concentrations of persistent organic pollutants in the environmental matrices. This absence of information is preventing the local authorities from taking the adequate actions to protect the people and environment. This is even more alarming in the countries recently affected by the wars where the chemicals released to the environment during the military operations can cause a significant ecological damage and health effects on the population. A potential of passive air sampling technique as a tool capable of providing seasonally and spatially resolved information about the local sources and levels of contamination was explored in this study as a first step to the establishment of a cost-effective long-term monitoring in this area. The passive air samplers proved to be a powerful technique capable of detecting the concentrations ranging over four orders of magnitude providing the information very comparable with the conventional techniques.

Abstract (in Czech)

Many Eastern European countries suffer the lack of data on concentrations of persistent organic pollutants in the environmental matrices. This absence of information is preventing the local authorities from taking the adequate actions to protect the people and environment. This is even more alarming in the countries recently affected by the wars where the chemicals released to the environment during the military operations can cause a significant ecological damage and health effects on the population. A potential of passive air sampling technique as a tool capable of providing seasonally and spatially resolved information about the local sources and levels of contamination was explored in this study as a first step to the establishment of a cost-effective long-term monitoring in this area. The passive air samplers proved to be a powerful technique capable of detecting the concentrations ranging over four orders of magnitude providing the information very comparable with the conventional techniques.

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Investor: Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the CR, Interactions among the chemicals, environment and biological systems and their consequences on the global, regional and local scales (INCHEMBIOL)