Phthalate diesters in Airborne PM2.5 and PM10 in a suburban area of Shanghai Seasonal distribution and risk assessment》.pdfVIP

Science of the Total Environment 497–498 (2014) 467–474 Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Science of the Total Environment journal homepage: /locate/scitote nv Phthalate diesters in Airborne PM2.5 and PM10 in a suburban area of Shanghai: Seasonal distribution and risk assessment Jing Ma a, Liu-lu Chen a, Ying Guo b,c, Qian Wu b,c, Ming Yang a, Ming-hong Wu a, Kurunthachalam Kannan b,c,d,⁎ a School of Environmental and Chemical Engineering, Shanghai University, Shanghai 200444, China b Wadsworth Center, New York State Department of Health, Albany, NY 12201-0509, USA c Department of Environmental Health Sciences, School of Public Health, State University of New York at Albany, Albany, NY 12201-0509, USA d Biochemistry Department, Faculty of Science and Experimental Biochemistry Unit, King Fahd Medical Research Center, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah 21589, Saudi Arabia H I G H L I G H T S • Phthalate diesters are ubiquitous in atmospheric PM2.5 and PM10 • High concentrations of phthalates were found on PM2.5 in summer • Estimated cancer risk from DEHP in PM was below the USEPAs acceptable limit a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t Article history: Concentrations of nine phthalate diesters in 24-h airborne PM2.5 and PM10 were determined from October Received 18 April 2014 2011 to August 2012 in a suburban area in Shanghai, China. Dimethyl phthalate (DMP), diethyl phthalate Received in revised form 4 August 2014 (DEP), di-n-butyl phthalate (DBP), di-iso-butyl phthalate (DIBP), benzyl butyl phthalate (BzBP), and di(2- Accepted 4 August 2014