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Legacy and current-use flame retardants in house dust from Vancouver, CanadaMahiba Shoeib
Atmospheric Science and Technology Directorate, Environment Canada, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Environ Pollut 169:175-82. 2012..The high detection of new FRs in indoor environments reflects their ubiquitous presence in indoor environment due to regulation of the PBDEs. Exposure to FRs are estimated based on these data for adults and toddlers...- Sorbent-impregnated polyurethane foam disk for passive air sampling of volatile fluorinated chemicalsMahiba Shoeib
Atmospheric Science and Technology Directorate, Environment Canada, Toronto, Canada M3H 5T4
Anal Chem 80:675-82. 2008..These air concentrations are orders of magnitude higher than observed for outdoor air, establishing indoor environments as important for human exposure and also as potential sources to the larger environment... 
Perfluorinated chemicals in the arctic atmosphereM Shoeib
Science and Technology Branch, Environment Canada, 4905 Dufferin Street, Toronto, Ontario, M3H 5T4
Environ Sci Technol 40:7577-83. 2006..Although the mechanism for this partitioning is not understood, the results do indicate the need to better account for particle phase transport when modeling the atmospheric fate of these chemicals...- Perfluorinated sulfonamides in indoor and outdoor air and indoor dust: occurrence, partitioning, and human exposureMahiba Shoeib
Meteorological Service of Canada, Air Quality Research Branch, 4905 Dufferin Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Environ Sci Technol 39:6599-606. 2005..However, for children the dust ingestion pathway was dominant and accounted for approximately 44 ng d(-1)... - Polybrominated diphenyl ethers in indoor dust in Ottawa, Canada: implications for sources and exposureBryony H Wilford
Air Quality Research Branch, Meteorological Service of Canada, Environment Canada, 4905 Dufferin Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Environ Sci Technol 39:7027-35. 2005..The data give a clearer picture of sources of PBDE exposure in the home environment and suggest that dust could be a significant exposure pathway for some individuals, particularly children... - Indoor and outdoor air concentrations and phase partitioning of perfluoroalkyl sulfonamides and polybrominated diphenyl ethersMahiba Shoeib
Meteorological Service of Canada, Environment Canada, 4905 Dufferin Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M3H 5T4
Environ Sci Technol 38:1313-20. 2004..These results suggest that existing K(OA)- and pL(o)-based models of partitioning will need to be recalibrated for PFASs... - Passive sampling survey of polybrominated diphenyl ether flame retardants in indoor and outdoor air in Ottawa, Canada: implications for sources and exposureBryony H Wilford
Environment Canada, Meteorological Service of Canada, Air Quality Research Branch, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Environ Sci Technol 38:5312-8. 2004..9 ng day(-1) (female) and 2.0 ng day(-1) (male), representing 4.1% (f) and 4.4% (m) of overall daily intake... - Using passive air samplers to assess urban-rural trends for persistent organic pollutants and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons. 2. Seasonal trends for PAHs, PCBs, and organochlorine pesticidesAnne Motelay-Massei
Meteorological Service of Canada, Environment Canada, 4905 Dufferin Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M3H 5T4
Environ Sci Technol 39:5763-73. 2005..These data, integrated over seasons, can be used to evaluate contaminant trends and the potential role of large urban centers as sources of some semivolatile compounds to the regional environment, including the Great Lakes ecosystem... - Polychlorinated naphthalenes in Great lakes air: assessing spatial trends and combustion inputs using PUF disk passive air samplersTom Harner
Science and Technology Branch, Environment Canada, 4905 Dufferin Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M3H 5T4
Environ Sci Technol 40:5333-9. 2006.... - Passive sampler derived air concentrations of PBDEs along an urban-rural transect: spatial and temporal trendsTom Harner
Science and Technology Branch, Environment Canada, 4905 Dufferin Street, Toronto, ON, Canada
Chemosphere 64:262-7. 2006..The composition of PBDEs in the air samples did not differ across the transect or for the different seasons... - Using measured octanol-air partition coefficients to explain environmental partitioning of organochlorine pesticidesMahiba Shoeib
Meteorological Service of Canada, Environment Canada, Toronto, Ontario
Environ Toxicol Chem 21:984-90. 2002..A log-log regression of the particle-gas partition coefficient versus Koa had a slope near unity, indicating that octanol is a good surrogate for the aerosol organic matter... - Hexachlorocyclohexanes and endosulfans in urban, rural, and high altitude air samples in the Fraser Valley, British Columbia: evidence for trans-Pacific transportTom Harner
Meteorological Service of Canada, Environment Canada, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M3H 5T4
Environ Sci Technol 39:724-31. 2005..This represents the first event-based, aircraft measurement of advection inputs of OCPs in the mid-troposphere of the west coast of North America... - Passive-sampler derived air concentrations of persistent organic pollutants on a north-south transect in ChileKarla Pozo
Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Siena, Via Mattioli 4, 53100 Siena, Italy
Environ Sci Technol 38:6529-37. 2004..76) was typical of background air, while the ratio in Concepción (0.12) was consistent with fresh use of gamma-HCH. Levels of sigmaPBDEs were below the detection limit of 6 pg m(-3) at all sites... - Characterization and comparison of three passive air samplers for persistent organic pollutantsMahiba Shoeib
Meteorological Service of Canada, Environment Canada, 4905 Dufferin Street, Toronto, Ontario M3H 5T4, Canada
Environ Sci Technol 36:4142-51. 2002..Expressions were also developed to relate the amount of chemical accumulated by the passive sampling media to average ambient air concentrations over the integration period of the sample... - Using passive air samplers to assess urban-rural trends for persistent organic pollutants. 1. Polychlorinated biphenyls and organochlorine pesticidesTom Harner
Meteorological Service of Canada, Environment Canada, 4905 Dufferin Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M3H 5T4
Environ Sci Technol 38:4474-83. 2004..Data such as this is essential for: model validation and for process research and addressing international monitoring strategies on POPs... - Characterization of polymer coated glass as a passive air sampler for persistent organic pollutantsTom Harner
Meteorological Service of Canada, Environment Canada, 4905 Dufferin Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M3H 5T4
Environ Sci Technol 37:2486-93. 2003..It is believed that these relationships are also valid when POGs are used to detect other classes of persistent organic pollutants... - Temperature dependence of the air concentrations of polychlorinated biphenyls and polybrominated diphenyl ethers in a forest and a clearingYushan Su
Department of Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry, University of Toronto Scarborough, 1265 Military Trail, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M1C 1A4
Environ Sci Technol 41:4655-61. 2007..Consequently, the influence of primary emissions on air concentrations is expected to be more important for PBDEs than for PCBs... - Polychlorinated naphthalenes in the Global Atmospheric Passive sampling (GAPS) studySum Chi Lee
Science and Technology Branch, Environment Canada, 4905 Dufferin Street, Toronto, Ontario M3H 5T4, Canada
Environ Sci Technol 41:2680-7. 2007..The relative contribution by combustion sources and emissions from technical PCN mixtures is expected to vary among sites since it depends on the combustion sources and the technical mixture used in a particular country or region... - Global pilot study of legacy and emerging persistent organic pollutants using sorbent-impregnated polyurethane foam disk passive air samplersSusie Genualdi
Environment Canada, Science and Technology Branch, Toronto, Ontario M3H 5T4, Canada
Environ Sci Technol 44:5534-9. 2010..They can also be used as a complement to the PUF disk sampler for capturing broader classes of compounds, or as a replacement for PUF disks entirely, especially when longer than quarterly deployment periods are desired... - Regressing gas/particle partitioning data for polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbonsYushan Su
Department of Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry, University of Toronto at Scarborough, 1265 Military Trail, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M1C 1A4
Environ Sci Technol 40:3558-64. 2006..Statistical tests on the regression results indicate that the gas/particle partitioning was not significantly different between the forest and the clearing... - Detection of dechlorane plus in residential indoor dust in the city of Ottawa, CanadaJiping Zhu
Chemistry Research Division, Environmental Health Science and Research Bureau, Health Canada, Ottawa, Canada K1A 0K9
Environ Sci Technol 41:7694-8. 2007..S. Environmental Protection Agency. The large variation of the ratio of syn- and anti-DP isomers in the dust samples also suggests a complex degradation process of DP in the environment... - Identification and determination of hexachlorocyclopentadienyl-dibromocyclooctane (HCDBCO) in residential indoor air and dust: a previously unreported halogenated flame retardant in the environmentJiping Zhu
Chemistry Research Division, Health Canada, Ottawa, Canada
Environ Sci Technol 42:386-91. 2008.... - Determination of polybrominated diphenyl ethers in indoor dust standard reference materialsHeather M Stapleton
Analytical Chemistry Division, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD 20899, USA
Anal Bioanal Chem 384:791-800. 2006..These SRMs are the first reference materials with certified concentrations for PBDEs, which will aid in validating future measurements of PBDEs in house dust and other similar matrices...