Browsing School of Physics (Scholarly Articles) by Author "Harrad, Stuart"
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Concentrations of perfluoroalkyl substances in human milk from Ireland: Implications for adult and nursing infant exposure
Abou-Elwafa Abdallah, Mohamed; Wemken, Nina; Drage, Daniel Simon; Tlustos, Christina; Cellarius, Claire; Cleere, Kathy; Morrison, John J.; Daly, Sean; Coggins, Marie Ann; Harrad, Stuart (Elsevier, 2019-12-20)Concentrations of 10 perfluoroalkyl substances (PFASs) were measured in 16 pools of human milk from Ireland. Only four PFASs were detected (PFOA, PFNA, PFHxS and PFOS), with concentrations dominated by PFOA which was ... -
Concentrations of polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins (PCDDs), polychlorinated dibenzofurans (PCDFs) and polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) in human milk from Ireland: temporal trends and implications for nursing infant exposure
Houlihan, Margarete; Wemken, Nina; Keogh, Myra; O’Riordain, Colman; Noone, Conor; Tierney, Julie; Claire Cellarius, Claire; Cleere, Kathy; Morrison, John J.; Daly, Sean; Harrad, Stuart; Tlustos, Christina; Coggins, Marie Ann (OAE Publishing Inc, 2021-11-19)Aim: The elucidation of temporal trends in human exposure to polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) and 17 polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins and furans (PCDD/Fs) since the previous Irish human milk surveys and to evaluate the ... -
Halogenated flame retardants in Irish waste polymers: Concentrations, Legislative compliance, and preliminary assessment of temporal trends
Drage, Daniel; Sharkey, Martin; Al-Omran, Layla Salih; Stubbings, William A.; Berresheim, Harald; Coggins, Marie; Rosa, André Henrique; Harrad, Stuart (Elsevier, 2022-07-20)Halogenated flame retardants (HFRs) were measured in 470 waste plastic articles from Ireland between 2019 and 2020. We identified articles containing concentrations of polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs), hexabromocyclododecane ... -
Leaching of decabromodiphenyl ether and hexabromocyclododecane from fabrics under simulated landfill conditions
Harrad, Stuart; Drage, Daniel S.; Sharkey, Martin; Berresheim, Harald (KeAi Communications Co. Ltd, 2019-12-30)A series of laboratory experiments were conducted to examine the leaching of decabromodiphenyl ether (BDE-209) and hexabromocyclododecane (HBCDD) from a mix of three fabrics. Consistent with previous reports that such ... -
Phasing-out of legacy brominated flame retardants: The UNEP Stockholm Convention and other legislative action worldwide
Sharkey, Martin; Harrad, Stuart; Abou-Elwafa Abdallah, Mohamed; Drage, Daniel S.; Berresheim, Harald (Elsevier, 2020-08-18)Due to their toxicity and persistence, several families of brominated flame retardants (BFRs) have been listed as persistent organic pollutants (POPs) in the Stockholm Convention, a multilateral treaty overseen by the ... -
Portable X-ray fluorescence for the detection of POP-BFRs in waste plastics
Sharkey, Martin; Abdallah, Mohamed Abou-Elwafa; Drage, Daniel S; Harrad, Stuart; Berresheim, Harald (Elsevier, 2018-05-26)The purpose of this study was to establish the efficacy of portable X-ray fluorescence (XRF) instrumentation as a screening tool for a variety of end of life plastics which may contain excess amounts of brominated flame ...