Ying Zhang

TL;DR: Water and several wild aquatic species including Chinese mysterysnail, prawn, fish, and water snake were collected from a reservoir surrounded by several e-waste recycling workshops in South China to investigate the levels and bioaccumulation extent of polybrominated diphenyl ethers and polychlorinated biphenyls released from electronic waste (e-w waste) which was processed by crude recycling method.

TL;DR: Dechlorane Plus (DP), a highly chlorinated flame retardant, has been detected in water, sediment, and aquatic organisms in a reservoir in the vicinity of electronic waste recycling workshops in South China, suggesting a stereospecific metabolism of anti-DP and/or isomer-selective uptake of syn-DP was occurring in organisms.

TL;DR: Biota samples show a shift from gamma- toward alpha-HBCD compared with the suspended particles, sediment, and HBCD technical mixtures, with a significant increase of alpha-hBCD on ascending trophic levels, and several currently used non-polybrominated diphenyl ether brominated flame retardants are examined in the components of a freshwater food web from an electronic waste recycling site, South China.

TL;DR: The trophic magnification factors for PBDEs were generally smaller than those for PCBs with the same degree of halogenation, indicating a lower biomagnification potential forPBDEs compared to PCBs.

TL;DR: The BAFs for the given BFR compound were largely variable between species, due to the species-specific feeding ecology, trophic level, and metabolic capacity for these pollutants, suggesting that these BFRs may have a potentially high environmental risk.