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JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING
Volume 11, Issue 11, Pages 1952-1963Publisher
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/b913415h
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- Ministry of Education of the Czech Republic [MSM 0021622412]
- Ministry of Environment of the Czech Republic [SP/1b1/30/07]
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A 6-month air sampling survey was conducted at 26 sites across the African continent with the aim to establish baseline information on contamination of ambient air with persistent organic pollutants (POPs) as a reference for future monitoring programs in the region. Sampling sites included continental, rural and urban backgrounds, agricultural and industrial sites as well as waste and obsolete pesticide dumps. Concentrations of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins and furans, polychlorinated biphenyls and organochlorine pesticides were low at most of the rural background sites, but they raise some concern in big cities. The large temporal variability in the pesticide concentrations suggested seasonal application of gamma-HCHs and endosulfans; levels of p,p'-DDT were often much higher than those of p,p;-DDE and indicated recent application of DDT.
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