SRC, Environmental Science Center, North Syracuse, New York, USA.
Environ Sci Technol. 2010 Apr 1;44(7):2277-85. doi: 10.1021/es903383a.
The goal of this study was to identify commercial chemicals that might be persistent and bioaccumulative (P&B) and that were not being considered in current Great Lakes, North American, and Arctic contaminant measurement programs. We combined the Canadian Domestic Substance List (DSL), a list of 3059 substances of "unknown or variable composition complex reaction products and biological materials" (UVCBs), and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (U.S. EPA) Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) Inventory Update Rule (IUR) database for years 1986, 1990, 1994, 1998, 2002, and 2006 yielding a database of 22263 commercial chemicals. From that list, 610 chemicals were identified by estimates from U.S EPA EPISuite software and using expert judgment. This study has yielded some interesting and probable P&B chemicals that should be considered for further study. Recent studies, following up our initial reports and presentations on this work, have confirmed the presence of many of these chemicals in the environment.
本研究旨在确定那些在当前的五大湖、北美和北极污染物监测计划中未被考虑的商业化学物质，这些化学物质具有持久性和生物累积性（P&B）。我们将加拿大国内物质清单（DSL）、3059 种“未知或可变成分复杂反应产物和生物材料”（UVCBs）的清单以及美国环境保护署（U.S. EPA）有毒物质控制法（TSCA）库存更新规则（IUR）数据库中 1986 年、1990 年、1994 年、1998 年、2002 年和 2006 年的数据相结合，得到了一个包含 22263 种商业化学物质的数据库。从该列表中，使用美国 EPA EPISuite 软件和专家判断估计，确定了 610 种化学物质。这项研究产生了一些有趣且可能具有 P&B 特性的化学物质，这些化学物质应该进一步研究。最近的研究，在我们对这项工作的初步报告和介绍之后，已经证实了这些化学物质在环境中的存在。
