TY - JOUR
T1 - Analytical chemistry of the persistent organic pollutants identified in the Stockholm Convention
T2 - A review
AU - Xu, Weiguang
AU - Wang, Xian
AU - CAI, Zongwei
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors would like to thank Dr. John L. Holmes (University of Ottawa, Canada) for his valuable comments and help in English edit. The authors also thank the financial supports by Faculty Research Grant from Hong Kong Baptist University ( FRG2/11-12/118 ), General Research Grant from the Research Grant Committee of Hong Kong SAR ( HKBU200310 ), National Sciences Foundation of China ( NSFC21175025 and NSFC21275267 ).
PY - 2013/8/6
Y1 - 2013/8/6
N2 - Persistent organic pollutants (POPs) are major environmental concern due to their persistence, long-range transportability, bio-accumulation and potentially adverse effects on living organisms. Analytical chemistry plays an essential role in the measurement of POPs and provides important information on their distribution and environmental transformations. Much effort has been devoted during the last two decades to the development of faster, safer, more reliable and more sensitive analytical techniques for these pollutants. Since the Stockholm Convention (SC) on POPs was adopted 12 years ago, analytical methods have been extensively developed. This review article introduces recent analytical techniques and applications for the determination of POPs in environmental and biota samples, and summarizes the extraction, separation and instrumental analyses of the halogenated POPs. Also, this review covers important aspects for the analyses of SC POPs (e.g. lipid determination and quality assurance/quality control (QA/QC)), and finally discusses future trends for improving the POPs analyses and for potential new POPs.
AB - Persistent organic pollutants (POPs) are major environmental concern due to their persistence, long-range transportability, bio-accumulation and potentially adverse effects on living organisms. Analytical chemistry plays an essential role in the measurement of POPs and provides important information on their distribution and environmental transformations. Much effort has been devoted during the last two decades to the development of faster, safer, more reliable and more sensitive analytical techniques for these pollutants. Since the Stockholm Convention (SC) on POPs was adopted 12 years ago, analytical methods have been extensively developed. This review article introduces recent analytical techniques and applications for the determination of POPs in environmental and biota samples, and summarizes the extraction, separation and instrumental analyses of the halogenated POPs. Also, this review covers important aspects for the analyses of SC POPs (e.g. lipid determination and quality assurance/quality control (QA/QC)), and finally discusses future trends for improving the POPs analyses and for potential new POPs.
KW - Gas chromatography-mass spectrometry
KW - Instrumental analyses
KW - Liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry
KW - Persistent organic pollutants
KW - Sample preparation
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U2 - 10.1016/j.aca.2013.04.026
DO - 10.1016/j.aca.2013.04.026
M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:84880626535
SN - 0003-2670
VL - 790
SP - 1
EP - 13
JO - Analytica Chimica Acta
JF - Analytica Chimica Acta
ER -