Search Results - "Abate, Vittorio"
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Human Exposure to Dioxins and Other Contaminants Following an Accidental Fire at the Fiumicino Airport (Italy): A Public Health Response
Published in Atmosphere (01-12-2022)“…In May 2015, a fire occurred at Terminal 3 of the Rome–Fiumicino International Airport. To respond to the health concern associated with the resulting…”
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Concentrations of polychlorinated dibenzodioxins, polychlorodibenzofurans, and polychlorobiphenyls in women of reproductive age in Italy: A human biomonitoring study
Published in International journal of hygiene and environmental health (01-04-2017)“…•Largest human biomonitoring study in women of reproductive age in Italy.•Age and residential area were the variables that most affected contaminant…”
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Persistent organic pollutants (POPs) in fish collected from the urban tract of the river Tiber in Rome (Italy)
Published in Annali dell'Istituto superiore di sanità (2011)“…European eel and chub samples were analyzed to determine the levels of non-dioxin-like polychlorobiphenyls (NDL-PCBs), polychlorodibenzodioxins (PCDDs) and…”
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Time trends of PCDDs, PCDFs, DL-PCBs, and NDL-PCBs in Italian women from biomonitoring studies
Published in Chemosphere (Oxford) (01-12-2022)“…A number of biomonitoring investigations were carried out in Italy between 2000 and 2018 by the Unit of Human Exposure to Environmental Chemicals of the…”
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Biomonitoring of the adult population in the area of turin waste incinerator: Baseline levels of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon metabolites
Published in Environmental research (01-02-2020)“…Exposure to polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) was assessed in a cohort of 394 subjects, 198 residing in three small municipalities near a new…”
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Determinants of exposure to polychlorinated biphenyls in the Italian population in the last decades
Published in Environmental science and pollution research international (01-04-2023)“…Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) are industrial products extensively used in the past. Because of their widespread presence and toxic effects, the…”
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Artificial-turf playing fields: Contents of metals, PAHs, PCBs, PCDDs and PCDFs, inhalation exposure to PAHs and related preliminary risk assessment
Published in The Science of the total environment (01-11-2011)“…The artificial-turf granulates made from recycled rubber waste are of health concern due the possible exposure of users to dangerous substances present in the…”
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Human biomonitoring of PCDDs, PCDFs, and PCBs in women living in a Northern Italy industrial area
Published in Environmental science and pollution research international (24-06-2024)“…In Brescia , a highly industrialized city in the Lombardy Region (Northern Italy) classified as a SIN (Contaminated Site of National Interest), a human…”
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Persistent toxic substances in Mediterranean aquatic species
Published in The Science of the total environment (01-10-2014)“…Fish and fishery products may represent one of the main sources of dietary exposure to persistent toxic substances (PTSs) such as polychlorinated…”
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Metals in Mediterranean aquatic species
Published in Marine pollution bulletin (15-05-2015)“…•Study on metals in Mediterranean fish and fishery products.•Data collected for several contaminants in wild and farmed species of commercial interest.•Samples…”
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Non-dioxin-like PCB and PBDE deposition on Zea mays L. leaves: modelled contamination in milk from dairy animals fed on silage
Published in Food additives & contaminants. Part A, Chemistry, analysis, control, exposure & risk assessment (03-06-2015)“…Maize (Zea mays L.) can intercept airborne pollutants before their deposition on soil. Selected non-dioxin-like polychlorinated biphenyls (Σ 6 NDL-PCBs) and…”
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A study on PCB, PCDD/PCDF industrial contamination in a mixed urban-agricultural area significantly affecting the food chain and the human exposure. Part I: Soil and feed
Published in Chemosphere (Oxford) (01-04-2007)“…This study deals with a PCB, PCDD and PCDF contamination in Brescia, a city in the North-West of Italy, affecting an area with about 11 000 inhabitants. The…”
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Polychlorodibenzodioxin and -furan (PCDD and PCDF) and Dioxin-like Polychlorobiphenyl (DL-PCB) Congener Levels in Milk of Grazing Sheep as Indicators of the Environmental Quality of Rural Areas
Published in Journal of agricultural and food chemistry (10-08-2011)“…An observational study was set up to evaluate how the quality of the environment may influence the levels of of PCDDs, PCDFs, and DL-PCBs in sheep's milk…”
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Chemometric data analysis application to Sparus aurata samples from two offshore farming plants along the Apulian (Italy) coastline
Published in Chemosphere (Oxford) (01-10-2011)“…► We considered a chemometric approach to characterize the chemicals determined in offshore farmed fish. ► The influence of feed and environment were…”
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PCDD/F and PCB in human serum of differently exposed population groups of an Italian city
Published in Chemosphere (Oxford) (01-08-2008)“…A chemical plant located in Brescia, an industrial city in North-Western Italy, produced polychlorobiphenyls (PCBs) during a 30–50 year period, causing…”
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Bioaccumulation of dioxin-like substances and selected brominated flame retardant congeners in the fat and livers of black pigs farmed within the Nebrodi Regional Park of Sicily
Published in Journal of food protection (01-02-2011)“…An observational study was designed to assess the bioaccumulation of polychlorodibenzodioxins (PCDD) and polychlorodibenzofurans (PCDF), dioxin-like…”
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Persistent toxic substances in Mediterranean aquatic species
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Occurrence of PCDD/Fs in urban air before and after the ban of leaded gasoline
Published in Chemosphere (Oxford) (01-06-2005)“…The source of PCDDs and PCDFs in automotive exhaust is not yet fully explained. The chlorinated hydrocarbons used in the formulation of lead-alkyl additives…”
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