Temporal Trends of Legacy and Current-Use Halogenated Flame Retardants in Lake Ontario in Relation to Atmospheric Loadings, Sources, and Environmental Fate.

Environ Sci Technol · 2023 · PMC10537453 · PMID 37695984

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a decreasing trendno p-value reported

13 reported a decreasing trend for atmospheric BDE209 with a half-life of 5 years at Cleveland and Sturgeon Point between 2005 and 2011.

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an increasing trendno p-value reported

This pattern differs slightly from a previous study which showed an increasing trend in BDE100, BDE153, and BDE154 between 2011 and 2016 in the western basin of the lake; 32 that increasing trend appears not to have continued when the period was extended.

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