Environmental concentrations, method development, trophic biomagnification, and mass balance analysis of poly- and perfluorinated alkylated substances in environmental samples

• Main Author: Loi, I Ha (呂綺霞)
• Format: Thesis
• Language: unknown
• Published: City University of Hong Kong 2012
• Subjects: Organofluorine compounds > Analysis; Arctic; Fang; Victoria Harbour; Human health; Phytoplankton; Zooplankton
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/2031/6890; http://lib.cityu.edu.hk/record=b4199872

Poly- and perfluorinated alkylated substances (PFASs) are useful chemicals that have been manufactured and widely used for various applications for over 60 years. Concerns over PFASs have been growing since the 1990s because of their ubiquitous occurrence, toxicities, environmental persistence and b...