Characterization of dioxin-like contamination in soil and sediments from the “hot spot” area of petrochemical plant in Pancevo (Serbia)

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Authors

KAISAREVIC Sonja HILSCHEROVÁ Klára WEBER Roland SUNDQVIST Kristina L. TYSKLIND Mats VONCINA Ernest BOBIC Stanka ANDRIC Nebojsa POGRMIC-MAJKIC Kristina VOJINOVIC-MILORADOV Mirjana GIESY John Paul KOVACEVIC Radmila

Year of publication 2011
Type Article in Periodical
Magazine / Source Environmental Science and Pollution Research
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Faculty of Science

Citation
Doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11356-010-0418-8
Field Environment influence on health
Keywords Dioxin-like activity; Ethylene dichloride; PCBs; PCDD/Fs; Pattern analysis; Petrochemical industry
Description Purpose Combinatorial bio/chemical approach was applied to investigate dioxin-like contamination of soil and sediment at the petrochemical and organochlorine plant in Pancevo, Serbia, after the destruction of manufacturing facilities that occurred in the spring of 1999 and subsequent remediation actions.Soil samples were analyzed for indicator polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) by gas chromatography/electron capture detection (GC/ECD). Prioritized soil sample and sediment samples from the waste water channel were analyzed for polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins and dibenzofurans (PCDD/Fs) by high-resolution gas chromatography/high-resolution mass spectrometry (HRGC/HRMS). Microethoxyresorufin o-deethylase (Micro-EROD) and H4IIE-luciferase bioassays were used for monitoring of dioxin-like compounds (DLC) and for better characterization of dioxin-like activity of soil samples.
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