Polychlorinated biphenyls in residential soils and their health risk and hazard in an industrial city in India

• Main Authors: Bhupander Kumar (Author), Virendra Kumar Verma (Author), Satish Kumar Singh (Author), Sanjay Kumar (Author), Chandra Shekhar Sharma (Author), Avinash B. Akolkar (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: SAGE Publishing, 2014-07-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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<em>Background</em>. Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) have never been produced in India, but were used in industrial applications. PCBs have been detected in environmental samples since 1966, and their sources in soils come from depositions of industrial applications, incinerators and bi...