Temporal trends in radiometrically dated sediment cores from English lakes show polybrominated diphenyl ethers correlate with brominated but not mixed bromo/chloro dioxins and furans

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Authors	PETERS Leon I. ROSE Neil L. YANG Handong KLÁNOVÁ Jana MOEHRING Thomas HARRAD Stuart John
Year of publication	2021
Type	Article in Periodical
Magazine / Source	Science of the Total Environment
MU Faculty or unit	Faculty of Science
Citation
Web	https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0048969720366481?via%3Dihub
Doi	http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.143118
Keywords	PBDD/Fs; PXDD/Fs; PBDEs; Time trends; Sources; Lakes
Description	This paper reports concentrations between similar to 1950 and present, of polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs) and polybrominated dibenzo-p-dioxins and furans (PBDD/Fs), in radiometrically-dated sediment cores from three English lakes. Mixed bromo/chloro dibenzo-p-dioxins and furans (PXDD/Fs) were measured in two of the same lakes. Concentrations of PXDD/Fs decreased over time to the present. To our knowledge, this is the first report of temporal trends of PXDD/Fs in the environment. In contrast, concentrations of PBDEs increased towards the present and were significantly correlated (R = 0.88-0.98; p < 0.05) with concentrations of PBDFs in all three lakes. These observations suggest that the sources of PXDD/Fs are not related to PBDEs and differ from those of PBDFs. We also report for the first time the presence of octabromodibenzofuran (OBDF) in the two most recent core slices at one lake. The source of OBDF in these samples is unclear. While OBDF has been reported previously as a significant contaminant of some commercial formulations of Deca-BDE, it is also present in Octa-BDE products and in emissions from a variety of combustion activities. Overall, while the positive correlation between PBDEs and PBDFs suggests increased use of PBDEs has contributed substantially to environmental contamination with PBDFs; examination of PBDF homologue patterns implies emissions from combustion activities are likely also important.
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