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16417134

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
1
pubmed:dateCreated
2006-1-18
pubmed:abstractText
Chile signed the Stockholm Convention, which establishes measures to reduce or eliminate Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) release into the environment, including the prohibition of their use and reduction of secondary products release, as well as management related with waste treatment. Among POPs, PCBs are a family of 209 compounds that differ in chlorine level and position. These substances present a wide variability in their physicochemical properties such as vapor pressure, water solubility and partition coefficients that determine their behavior and mobility within the different environmental compartments. In Chile, as in other countries, the use of these compounds were and continue to occur in diverse industrial applications such as dielectric fluid in transformers and condensers, with a use in Chile of approximately 550,000 L. A sampling of bivalves was performed during the years 2000-2002 in order to obtain information on the spatial distribution of the PCB levels for the length of the long Chilean coast (18 degrees-54 degrees South latitude, 4,200 km), contributing in this way to a better understanding of the PCB trend and eventual fractionation along latitudinal gradients in Chile, using as the bivalve Perumytilus purpuratus ('Chorito Maico') bioindicator.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Jan
pubmed:issn
0944-1344
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
13
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
67-74
pubmed:dateRevised
2009-8-14
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2006
pubmed:articleTitle
Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) in mussels along the Chilean coast.
pubmed:affiliation
Aquatic Systems Research Unit, EULA-Chile Environmental Sciences Center University of Concepción, Chile. rmendoza@udec.cl
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't