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A report by Perth and Kinross Council’s (PKC) chief executive Thomas Glen admitted floodgates at the North Inch were not closed in time during the extreme weather event on the weekend of October 7 and 8. DBS collected from NSP is a valuable resource for studying exposure of newborns to environmental chemicals and for studying temporal trends with exposure to environmental chemicals in newborns. In this study, a gas chromatography-high resolution mass spectrometry method with ultrasonic extraction was successfully applied for the analysis of PCBs and OCPs in DBS samples. This study presents the first evidence of temporal trends of these compounds in DBS specimens collected from newborns during the past two decades. A significant reduction in blood concentrations of PCBs and p,p′-DDE was found between 1997 and 2011. The method developed in this study is applied for a population-based birth cohort with a focus on environmental chemical exposure, couple fertility and children’s health ( Louis et al. 2014).
He added: “It is worth noting that during Storm Babet – when gates were closed – there was no water ingress at Bell’s. Not – as my colleagues say – definitive proof of any failure but, as is often said in planning, a material consideration. That said, it does show flood prevention works when implemented.”Louis GMB, Sundaram R, Schisterman EF, Sweeney AM, Lynch CD, Gore-Langton RE, Maisog J, Kim S, Chen Z, Barr DB. Persistent environmental pollutants and couple fecundity: the LIFE study. Environmental Health Perspectives. 2013; 121(2):231–236. [ PMC free article] [ PubMed] [ Google Scholar] Ma W, Kannan K, Wu Q, Bell EM, Druschel CM, Caggana M, Aldous KM. Analysis of polyfluoroalkyl substances and bisphenol A in dried blood spots by liquid chromatography tandem mass spectrometry. Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry. 2013a; 405:4127–4138. [ PubMed] [ Google Scholar] Sjödin A, Jones R, Caudill S, Wong L, Turner W, Calafat A. Polybrominated diphenyl ethers, polychlorinated biphenyls, and persistent pesticides in serum from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey: 2003–2008. Environmental Science & Technology. 2014; 48:753–760. [ PMC free article] [ PubMed] [ Google Scholar] arena and squash courts – damaged; underfloor wood support damaged; office areas damaged; electrical equipment and circuitry damaged. The list goes on. Sun P, Blanchard P, Brice K, Hites RA. Atmospheric organochlorine pesticide concentrations near the Great Lakes: temporal and spatial trends. Environmental Science & Technology. 2006; 40(21):6587–6593. [ PubMed] [ Google Scholar]
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