The status of soil contamination by semivolatile organic chemicals (SVOCs) in China: A review

Agricultural Non-Point Source Pollution in China: Causes and Mitigation Measures

“…The regional differences were very large. The average concentration of DDTs in the soils of East China was 14-and 5-fold of that of South and Southwest China, while the ones of HCHs in South and Southwest China were 4-and 2-fold of those in North China (Cai et al 2008).…”

Polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs) in sediments of the coastal East China Sea: Occurrence, distribution and mass inventory

“…As penta-and octa-BDE were banned in some western countries, deca-BDE has become the more prevalent product widely used in textiles and electronics equipment due to their lower toxicity compared with penta-and octa-BDE (La Guardia et al, 2006). China, as a large consumption country of deca-BDE, was usually dominant in the occurrence of BDE-209 in the environment (Cai et al, 2008).…”

“…PBDEs can be easily escaped into the environment during material crushing because they are dissolved in the polymer without chemical bond (Rahman et al, 2001;Cynthia, 2002). PBDE residues have been now widely found in abiotic matrix (soils, sediments, waters and atmosphere) (Wang et al, 2005(Wang et al, , 2007Cai et al, 2008;Yogui and Sericano, 2009;Ramu et al, 2010) and biotic environment (marine animals, human milk, hair, blood, and adipose tissue) (Hites, 2004;Frederiksen et al, 2009;Kang et al, 2011) in recent years due to the rapid increase of PBDEs usage. Meanwhile, PBDEs have been become a concern in the world due to their persistence, bioaccumulation and toxicities in the environment (Darnerud et al, 2001;Martin et al, 2004).…”

Soil contamination by phthalate esters in Chinese intensive vegetable production systems with different modes of use of plastic film

“…They are widely used in general plastic products, cosmetics, personal care products, food packaging and medical products (Van Wezel et al, 2000;Hens and Caballos, 2003;Cai et al, 2008;Xia et al, 2011). The global consumption of PAEs is about 6.0 million tons per annum (Xie et al, 2007).…”

“…The respective mean concentrations of DnBP and DEHP found in greenhouse soils were 1.63 and 1.96 mg kg À1 in Jinan, Shandong province (Meng et al, 1996), 0.60 and 0.63 mg kg À1 in Beijing (Ma et al, 2003), 15.5 and 4.61 mg kg À1 in Handan, Hebei province (Xu et al, 2008) and 0.21 and 1.48 mg kg À1 in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province (Chen et al, 2011). The concentrations of DnBP and DEHP in plastic film greenhouse and polytunnel soils may been influenced by differences in the use of irrigation, fertilizers and plastic film as well as meteorological conditions and external pollutant sources Cai et al, 2008;Kong et al, 2012). Soil PAEs can also lead to atmospheric or water pollution by evaporation, leaching, deposition and drainage (Xu et al, 2008;Zeng et al, 2009;Wang et al, 2012).…”