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Monitoring and Risk Assessment of Selected Pesticide Congeners (PCBs) in Nile River Waters, Egypt

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Last updated: 01 Jan 2025

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Environmental chemistry

Abstract

Discharging of higher levels of persistent organic pollutant (POPs) including PCBs to the Nile River waters poses a great environmental impact and human hazardous risk. Therefore, we carried out this study to assess the concentration levels of selected PCB congeners and evaluate their health risk at three different areas along Nile River from South to North of Egypt. Collected samples were extracted and analyzed using (GC-Ms, Agilent). The detected total average concentration levels of selected ten PCB congeners along the three sampling sites Beni-suef (S1), Greater Cairo S2) and Banha (S3) were ranged from 3.89 to 25.5 with an average of 16.51 𝜇g/L, 5.51 to 33.61 with an average of 20.75 𝜇g/L and from 6.14 to with an average of 27.01 𝜇g/L at S1, S2 and S3, respectively. These concentrations were above the acceptable permissible limit set by USEPA for PCBs in drinking water (0.5 𝜇g/L), indicating an important PCB pollution problem in the Nile River water and high possibility of human adverse health effects. Therefore, counter measures and laws enforcement should be applied to minimize the risk of PCBs in the Egyptian environment.

DOI

10.21608/ejchem.2017.1877.1156

Keywords

Water Pollution, POPs, PCBs, Nile River, Risk assessment

Authors

First Name

Hossam

Last Name

Nassar

MiddleName

F.

Affiliation

Department of Environmental Sciences and Industrial Development, Faculty of Post Graduate Studies for Advanced Sciences, Beni-Suef university

Email

hossamnassarnrc@gmail.com

City

Beni-Suef

Orcid

0000-0002-5410-154X

Volume

60

Article Issue

6

Related Issue

660

Issue Date

2017-12-01

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2017-10-20

Publish Date

2017-12-01

Page Start

977

Page End

984

Print ISSN

0449-2285

Online ISSN

2357-0245

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https://ejchem.journals.ekb.eg/article_4214.html

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297

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Journal

Publication Title

Egyptian Journal of Chemistry

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https://ejchem.journals.ekb.eg/

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Monitoring and Risk Assessment of Selected Pesticide Congeners (PCBs) in Nile River Waters, Egypt

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22 Jan 2023