Environmental Contamination and Ecological Risk of Novel POPs in the Asian Developing Region

2012 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 20221003
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (S)
• Allocation Type: Single-year Grants
• Research Field: Risk sciences of radiation/Chemicals
• Research Institution: Ehime University
• Principal Investigator: TANABE Shinsuke 愛媛大学, 沿岸環境科学研究センター, 教授 (60116952)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): IWATA Hisato 愛媛大学, 沿岸環境科学研究センター, 教授 (10271652) ; TAKASUGA Takumi 愛媛大学, 沿岸環境科学研究センター, 客員教授 (10451379) ; TAKAHASHI Shin 愛媛大学, 農学部, 准教授 (30370266) ; NAKAYAMA Kei 愛媛大学, 沿岸環境科学研究センター, 講師 (80380286) ; TAKIGAMI Hidetaka 独立行政法人国立環境研究所, 資源循環・廃棄物研究センター, 室長 (00353540) ; ISOBE Tomohiko 愛媛大学, 上級研究員センター, 講師 (50391066) ; SUZUKI Go 独立行政法人国立環境研究所, 資源循環・廃棄物研究センター, 特任研究員 (70414373)
• Project Period (FY): 2008 – 2012
• Keywords: アジア途上地域 / POPs候補物質 / 環境汚染 / リスク評価 / 歴史トレンド

Research Abstract

Focusing on novel and emerging POPs (e.g. brominated flame retardants), development of analytical methods, status of contamination, revelation of pollution sources, bioaccumulation features, risk assessment by bioassay/microarray, and temporal and future trends were studied. The present study provided many scientific evidences to the international society for improving the environmental pollution and toxicological measures, and successfully acquired the comprehensive information over the Asian region.

Research Products

• [Journal Article] Monitoring temporal and spatial trends of legacy and emerging contaminants in marine environment: results from the environmental specimen bank (es-BANK) of Ehime University, Japan (2012)
  • Author(s): Tanabe, S. and Ramu, K.
  • Journal Title: Marine Pollution Bulletin Volume: 64(7) Pages: 1459-1447
  • DOI: DOI:10.1016/j.marpolbul.2012.05.013
• [Journal Article] Geographical distribution of non-PBDE-brominated flame retardants in mussels from Asian coastal waters (2012)
  • Author(s): Isobe, T., Ogawa, S. P., Ramu, K., Sudaryanto, A. and Tanabe, S
  • Journal Title: Environmental Science & Pollution Research Volume: 19(8) Pages: 3107-3117
  • DOI: DOI:10.1007/s11356-012-0945-6
• [Journal Article] Identification of major dioxin-like compounds and androgen receptor antagonist in acid-treated tissue extracts of high trophic-level animals (2011)
  • Author(s): Suzuki, G., Tue, N.M., van der Linden, S.C., Brouwer, A., van der Burg, B., Velzen, M.V., Lamoree, M., Someya, M., Takahashi, S., Isobe, T., Tajima, Y., Yamada, T., Takigami, H. and Tanabe S
  • Journal Title: Environmental Science and Technology. Volume: 45(23) Pages: 10203-10211
  • DOI: DOI:10.1021/es2024274
• [Journal Article] Dioxins and organohalogen contaminants in the Asia Pacific region (2010)
  • Author(s): Tanabe, S. and Minh, T. B.
  • Journal Title: Ecotoxicology Volume: 19(3) Pages: 463-478
  • DOI: DOI:10.1007/s10646-009-0445-8
• [Journal Article] A microarray data analysis method to evaluate the impact of contaminants on wild animals. (2010)
  • Author(s): Nakayama, K., Handoh, I., Kitamura, S., Kim, E., Iwata, H. and Tanabe, S
  • Journal Title: Science of the Total Environment Volume: 408(23) Pages: 5824-5827
  • DOI: DOI:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2010.08.065
• [Journal Article] Brominated flame retardants in the environment of Asia-Pacific: an overview of spatial and temporal trends (2008)
  • Author(s): Tanabe, S., Ramu, K., Isobe, T. and Takahashi, S.
  • Journal Title: Journal of Environmental Monitoring Volume: 10(2) Pages: 188-197
  • DOI: DOI:10.1039/B709928B
• [Presentation] In vitro transactivation of avian AHR1 and AHR2 by dioxins to assess the species-specific sensitivity and CYP1A induction in the population-level (2012)
  • Author(s): Iwata, H., Lee, J. S., Thuruthippallil, L. M. and Kim, E. Y.
  • Organizer: SETAC North America 33rdAnnual Meeting
  • Place of Presentation: Long Beach, California, USA.
  • Year and Date: 20121100
• [Presentation] Unintentional POPs (PCBs, PCBz, PCNs) contamination in articles containing chlorinated paraffins and related impacted chlorinated paraffin products. (2012)
  • Author(s): Takasuga, T., Nakano, T. and Shibata, Y.
  • Organizer: 32stInternational Symposium on Halogenated Persistent Organic Pollutants (DIOXIN 2012)
  • Place of Presentation: Cairns, Australia
  • Year and Date: 20120800
• [Presentation] POPs and its related compounds in Asia-Pacific Region: legacy and emerging issues. (2011)
  • Author(s): Takahashi, S., Kannan, K. and Tanabe, S
  • Organizer: GCOE Seminar on Water and Environment in Asian Mega Cities
  • Place of Presentation: Kyoto, Japan
  • Year and Date: 20111100
• [Presentation] Monitoring studies on the contamination of brominated flame retardants in eastern Asian waters using archived samples from es-BANK (2010)
  • Author(s): Tanabe, S
  • Organizer: Ehime University, Japan. International Conference for Environmental Specimen Bank
  • Place of Presentation: Berlin, Germany
  • Year and Date: 20101100
• [Presentation] Application of a panel of nuclear receptor/reporter gene bioassays to marine harbor sediments in Asia (2009)
  • Author(s): Takigami, H., Sato, M., Sakai, S., Tanabe, S. and Brouwer, A
  • Organizer: 29thInternational Symposium on Halogenated Persistent Organic Pollutants, DIOXIN 2009
  • Place of Presentation: Beijing, China
  • Year and Date: 20090800
• [Book] アジア-太平洋地域の化学汚染, 分子でよむ環境汚染, 鈴木 聡編著 (2009)
  • Author(s): 磯部友彦・国末達也・田辺信介
  • Total Pages: 0-37
  • Publisher: 東海大学出版会
• [Book] Interdisciplinary Studies on Environmental Chemistry, Vol. 2, Environmental Research in Asia for Establishing a Scientist's Network (2009)
  • Author(s): Obayashi, Y., Isobe, T., Subramanian, An., Suzuki, S. and Tanabe, S. (Eds)
  • Total Pages: 341
  • Publisher: TERRAPUB, Tokyo, Japan
• [Remarks] ホームページ
  • URL: http://www.ehime-u.ac.jp/~cmes/tanabe/04_project/project_s.html
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