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Safety assessment of the source water within the Pearl River Delta on the aspect of organochlorine pesticides contamination

Meng Qiao,ab  Taicheng An,*a  Xiangying Zeng,a  Delin Zhang,ab  Guiying Li,a  Guoying Sheng,a  Jiamo Fu,a  Guoxia Zhangc  and  Jun Guoc 
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a State Key Laboratory of Organic Geochemistry, Guangdong Key Laboratory of Environmental Resources Utilization and Protection, Guangzhou Institute of Geochemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, China
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b Graduate School of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

c Guangdong Institute of Microbiology, Guangzhou, China

Abstract

The safety of source water is a noticeable problem in the Pearl River Delta, one of the densely populated areas in China. In this study, 20 individual organochlorine pesticides (OCPs) were investigated in 15 water sources within this area using gas chromatography-electron capture detector, and the hazard risks to human health were assessed in terms of individual OCPs based on daily water consumption according to the standard recommended by the United States Environmental Protection Agency. Results showed that the total OCP concentrations ranged from 2.42 ng l−1 to 39.52 ng l−1 during the years 2008 and 2009. The hazard ratios based on both non-cancer and cancer benchmarks were less than 1 for all the water samples, which indicated that individual OCPs posed no risk to human health. However, the risks caused by the combined toxicity of total OCPs in this area should not be ignored.

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The article was received on 01 Feb 2010, accepted on 15 Jun 2010 and first published on 08 Jul 2010


Article type: Paper
DOI: 10.1039/C002019B
Citation: J. Environ. Monit., 2010,12, 1666-1677
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    Safety assessment of the source water within the Pearl River Delta on the aspect of organochlorine pesticides contamination

    M. Qiao, T. An, X. Zeng, D. Zhang, G. Li, G. Sheng, J. Fu, G. Zhang and J. Guo, J. Environ. Monit., 2010, 12, 1666
    DOI: 10.1039/C002019B

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