Polychlorinated biphenyls and organochlorine pesticides in water and sediment from Volturno River, Southern Italy: occurrence, distribution and risk assessment

Montuori, Paolo; De Rosa, Elvira; Sarnacchiaro, Pasquale; Di Duca, Fabiana; Provvisiero, Donatella Paola; Nardone, Antonio; Triassi, Maria

doi:10.1186/s12302-020-00408-4

Environmental Sciences Europe

Table 2 Concentration ranges and mean value of PCBs in the water dissolved phase (DP), the suspended particulate matter (SPM) and the sediments from recent studies of different rivers, estuaries and coasts in the world

From: Polychlorinated biphenyls and organochlorine pesticides in water and sediment from Volturno River, Southern Italy: occurrence, distribution and risk assessment

Area	References	N. of PCBs	DP (ng L⁻¹)		SPM (ng L⁻¹)		Sediments (ng g⁻¹)		DP + SPM (ng L⁻¹)
Area	References	N. of PCBs	Range	Mean	Range	Mean	Range	Mean	Range	Mean
PCBs
Tokyo Bay, Japan	Kobayashi et al. [37]	209	0.04–0.64	0.096	0.05–0.58	0.15	2.7–110	39.0
Bengal Bay, India	Chakraborty et al. [76]	19							39–233	115.2
Yangtze Estuary, China	Gao et al. [19]	28					1.86–148.22	24.85
Chao River, China	Yu et al. [38]	12					0.004–0.036
Haizhou Bay, China	Zhang et al. [27]	22					1.33–6.27	4.0
Daliao River Estuary, China	Men et al. [39]	41	5.51–40.28	16.91	6.78–66.55	21.81	0.83–7.29	1.77
Shuangtzaizi Estuary, China	Yuan et al. [9]	28					1.83–36.68	10.53
Chaohu Lake, China	He et al. [28]	34					0.07–3.99	0.67
Yellow River, China	Gao et al. [11]	12					0.001–0.010	0.0025
Hangzhou Bay, China	Adeleye et al. [33]	9					0.60–63.00
China Sea, China	Kaiser et al. [40]	24					ND–0.12
Chenab River, Pakistan	Mahmood et al. [36]	32	0.21–27.5	5.72			0.83–59.4	13.9
Ravi River, Pakistan	Syed et al. [49]	31					4.6–424.3	49.0
Chenab River, Pakistan	Eqani et al. [34]	7	1.1–8.5	2.8
Congo River Basin, Congo	Verhaert et al. [41]	33					ND-1.4
Congo River Basin, Congo	Mwanamoki et al. [42]	12					0.07–0.99
Umgeni River, South Africa	Gakuba et al. [50]	8	6.91–21.69				102.60–427.80
Msunduzi River, South Africa	Adeyinka [51]	8					361.7–5041.6	2163.4	6.49–141.68	36.7
Sea Lots, Trinidad and Tobago	Mohammed et al. [52]	136					62–601
Panama Canal and California Coast, USA	Menzies et al. [53]	19	ND-18,450	1164.0			62–601
Bedford Harbor, USA	Subedi et al. [54]	136					2800.0–109,000
Chiacago Ship Canal, USA	Peverly et al. [55]	209					69.0–5000
Midway Atoll, Hawaii	Ge et al. [55]	28					2.6–148.8	50.7
Portuguese coast, Portugal	Ferreira et al. [35]	17			4.2–30.1
Portuguese Coastal area, Portugal	Carvalho et al. [57]	7					0.3–466.8
Moscow River, Russia	Eremina et al. [48]	9	ND–180.7
Someşu Mic River, Romania	Barhoumi et al. [61]	20					2.74–252.72
Rhone River, France	Mourier et al. [58]	7					11.5–417.1
Huveaune River, France	Kanzari et al. [59]	7					2.8–435.0	148.0
Durance River and Berre Lagoon, France	Kanzari et al. [60]	7					0.03–514.4
Izmir Bay, Turkey	Pazi et al. [43]	20					0.21–31.95
Egyptian Coast, Egypt	Barakat et al. [83]	96					2.29–377.0	32.2
Nador Lagoon, Marocco	Giuliani et al. [44]	127					2.50–20.7	9.17
Tripoli Harbor, Lebanon	Merhaby et al. [62]	28					17.81–301.95
Morava River, Czech Republic	Kukucka et al. [45]	12					0.17–0.98
Plitvice Lakes, Croatia	Dvorscak et al. [46]	17					0.07–1.78
River Po, Italy	Viganò et al. [63]	14					48.6–335.0
Adriatic Sea, Italy	Combi et al. [47]	28					ND-9.0
Mar Piccolo coast, Italy	Bellucci et al. [64]	32					82.9–1045.0
This study		32	2.28–10.0	6.07	0.71–42.8	8.82	4.37–64.4	26.5	4.07–48.04	14.9

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