“Old” and “new” contaminants and their management: learning from the past, looking to the future

Within the 50 year lifetime of the Society for Environmental Geochemistry and Health (SEGH), we have seen a number of contaminants transfer from being the wonder chemical of their day through to becoming current contaminants of concern. This is also true for a variety of emerging contaminants such a...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales: Gibson, Gillian, Cundy, Andrew, Kafwamfwa, Nswana, Stewart, Alex
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer Netherlands 2021
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Original Paper
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8351766/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34373983
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10653-021-01042-6
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Sumario:Within the 50 year lifetime of the Society for Environmental Geochemistry and Health (SEGH), we have seen a number of contaminants transfer from being the wonder chemical of their day through to becoming current contaminants of concern. This is also true for a variety of emerging contaminants such as plastic microbeads, pharmaceutical residues, and fire retardant chemicals, amongst others. This thought piece discusses the risk associated with a range of these emerging contaminants, their global nature, how existing models and frameworks can be applied to deal with their impacts, and research and management gaps and challenges. GRAPHIC ABSTRACT: [Image: see text]

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