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22nd International Symposium on HalogenatedEnvironmental Organic Pollutants and Persistent

Organic Pollutants (POPs)

Barcelona, Spain -August 11 - 16, 2002

Organized by:Spanish Council for Scientific Research

Laboratory of Dioxins

CSIC

With the collaboration of:

UNIVERSITAT DE BARCELONA Generalitat de CatalunyaOepartament de Medi Ambient

Toxicology II (cont.)

TISSUE CONCENTRATIONS OF PORPHYRINS: EFFECTS OF REPEATED DOSAGE OFSELECTED POLYBROMOBENZENES IN RATS 1Jadwiga A. Szymanska. Jakub Czerski, Barbara Frydrych

INDUCTION OF HEPATIC MICROSOMAL UDP-GLUCURONOSYL- TRANSFERASEBY METHYLSULFONYL METABOLITES OF 2,2',4',5-TETRABROMOBIPHENYLIN RATS 5Yoshihisa Kato. Koichi Haraguchi, Yuriko Ito, Atsushi Shiga, Akinori Shoji and Ryohei

Kimura

FUROCOUMARINS AS INHIBITORS AND INDUCERS OF AH-RECEPTORREGULATED CYP1A ACTIVITY 9Annette Baumgart. Melanie Schmidt, Hans-Joachim Schmitz and Dieter Schrenk

SPECIFIC INDUCTION OF CYP1A1 MRNA BY INDIRUBIN IN HEPG2 CELLS 13Jun Adachi. Saburo Matsui and Tomonari Matsuda

METABOLISM OF 2,3',4,4',5-PENTACHLOROBIPHENYL(CB 118) BY GUINEA PIGLIVER MICROSOMES 17Nobuvuki Koga, Koichi Haraguchi, Tomoyo Kanamaru, Yoshihisa Kato, Ryohei

Kimura

ELECTRONIC ELASTISITY AS A NEW DETERMINANT OF PCDD CONGENERS'TOXICITY 21Ruben Asatryan. Lavrent Khachatryan, Barry Dellinger, Narine Mailyan and Lida

Sahakyan

COMPARISON OF RELATIVE TOXIC POTENCIES OF HYDROXYLATED PCBS ANDQUINONES IN HEPATIC AND MAMMARY CELL LINES 25Miroslav Machala. Ludik Blaha, Jan Vondraeek, Hans-Joachim Lehmler, Larry W.

Robertson, Tina Malmberg

BIPHASIC EFFECTS OF NONYLPHENOL ON BREAST CANCER CELL FUNCTIONIN VITRO 29Shunichiro Kubota. Kazuki Santa, Sachiko Ohara and Risa Tayu

SPECIES DIFFERENCE IN TISSUE RETENTION OF PCB METABOLITES AFTERIN VIVO EXPOSURE TO 2,4,5,2',5'-PENTA- AND 2,3,4,2',3\6'-HEXACHLOROBIPHENYLS 33Koichi Harappchi. Yoshihisa Kato, Nobuyuki Koga, Masakuni Degawa, Ryohei Kimura

and Yoshito Masuda.

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REDUCTIVE METABOLISM OF P,P'-DDT AND O,P'-DDT BY RAT LIVERCYTOCHROMEP450 37Shigeyuki Kitamura. Yuri Shimizu, Yuko Shiraga, Kazumi Sugihara and Shigeru Ohta

Endocrine Disruptors

MECHANISMS OF INHIBITORY ARYL HYDROCARBON RECEPTOR (AHR)-ESTROGEN RECEPTOR A CROSSTALK 41Stephen Safe. Kelcey Walker and Mark Wormke

BQNE DENSITY IN FEMALE JUVENILE AMERICAN ALLIGATORS FROM APESTICIDE POLLUTED LAKE (LAKE APOPKA) 45P. Monica Lind. Matthew R. Milnes, Rebecca Lundberg, Louis Guilettec and Jan Orberg

LACK OF THYROXINE AND RETINOID METABOLIC RESPONSE TO 2,3,7,8-TETRACHLORODIBENZO-P-DIOXIN IN ARYLHYDROCARBON RECEPTOR-NULL MICE BUT NOT IN TRANSTHYRETIN-NULL MICE 49N. Nishimura. J. Yonemoto, Y. Miyabara, C. Yokoi, Y. Takeuchi, Y. Fujii-Kuriyama,

S. Maeda, C. Tohyama,

DETERMINATION OF THE ENDOCRINE DISRUPTING POTENCY OFHYDROXYLATED PCBS AND FLAME RETARD ANTS WITH IN VITROBIOASSAYS 53Juliette Legler. Peter Cenijn, Tina Malmberg, Ake Bergman and Abraham Brouwer

HYPOTHYROXINEMIA AT WEANING OF HOLTZMAN RATS IS CAUSED BYLACTATIONAL BUT NOT IN UTERO EXPOSURE TO 2,3,7,8-TETRACHLORODIBENZO-P-DIOXIN 57J. Yonemoto. N. Nishimura, C. Yokoi, Y. Takeuchi and C. Tohyama

ESTROGENICITY IN CRUDE AND FRACTIONATED EXTRACTS OF MEDICALWASTE INCINERATOR ASHES 61Mitsuaki Matsui. Yuji Kashima, Masahide Kawano, Muneaki Matsuda, Tadaaki

Wakimoto, Rikuo Doi

ROLE OF DEVELOPMENTAL EXPOSURE TO ENDOCRINE DISRUPTORS INCANCER 65Linda S. Birnbaum and Suzanne E. Fenton

COMBUSTION PROCESSES AS SOURCES FOR ENDOCRINE DISRUPTINGCHEMICAL EMISSIONS 69Sukh Sidhu. Brian Gullett, Joy Klosterman, Richard Striebich, Jeff Ryan, Paul Lemieux,

Michael DeVito

RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN EXPOSURE TO DIOXIN-LIKE CHEMICALS,TESTOSTERONE LEVELS, AND SEX OF THE CHILDREN OF PESTICIDEAPPLICATORS 73George Clark. Vincent Garry, Barbara Burroughs, Seth Holland, Michael Chu and

David Brown

CHANGES OF IODINE ABSORPTION IN THYROID GLAND AT EXPERIMENTAL2,4-DMA INTOXICATION IN RATS 77Alexander Zh. Gilmanov and Edward F. Agletdinov

EFFECTS OF NEPHRITE JADE WATER BY OK-SAN GA® IN CHUNCHEON ONSPERM QUALITIES AND HISTOPATHOLOGICAL CHANGES IN BISPHENOLA(BPA) ADMINISTERED RATS 81Chan-Kyu Han, K. S. Seong and B. H. Lee

RELATION BETWEEN THE INCREASE IN HEPATIC UDP-GLUCURONOSYLTRANSFERASE AND THE DECREASE IN SERUMTHYROXINE LEVEL IN KANECHLOR-500-TREATED RATS 85Yoshihisa Kato. Tomoaki Yamazaki, Shinichi Ikushiro, Yuriko Ito, Koichi Haraguchi,

Takashi Iyanagi, Ryohei Kimura and Masakuni Degawa

A TARGETED APPROACH TO TOXIC SUBSTANCES RESEARCH IN CANADA 89Serge Lamy and Patrice Tremblay

ANTIESTROGENECITY OF POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS (PCBS) INIMMATURE FEMALE RAT 91Soon Sun Kim, So Hee Kim, Gyu Seek Rhee, Seung Jun Kwack, Kyung Hee Sohn,

Rhee Da Lee, Byung Ho Kim, Chul Hoon Park, Sang Mi An, Ki Eun Joung, YhunYhong Sheen, Bum Soo Ahn, Eui Bae Jeung, Kui Lea Park

EFFECTS OF CHLORPYRIFOS-METHYL ON ESTROGENIC AND ANDROGENICACTIVITY IN RATS 95Hwan-goo Kang, Sang-hee Jeong, Dong-gyu Kim, Joon-hyoung Cho

EFFECTS OF DIETHYLSTILBESTROL ON PUBERTY IN MALE RATS: ANEVALUATION OT THE PROTOCOL FOR THE ASSESSMENT OF PUBERTALDEVELOPMENT AND THYROID FUNCTION 99Jae-Ho Shin, Hyung Sik Kim, Hyun Ju Moon, II Hyun Kang, Tae Sung Kim, Ji Hyun

Seok, In Young Kim and Soon Young Han

DEVELOPMENT OF A BIOASSAY FOR THYROID DISRUPTION IN PATIENTSEXPOSED TO ENDOCRINE DISRUPTING CHEMICALS 103Isabel Cerrillo. Patrocinio Molinero, Patricia Araque, Alicia Granada, Begofia Olmos,

Esther Caceres, Jorge Rosell, Fernando Escobar, Nicolas Olea

EFFECT OF ENDOCRINE DISRUPTORS ON LYMPHOCYTE RESPONSES 107Tomomi Yamazaki and Osamu Ezaki

SEABREAM (SPARUS AURATA L.) SPECIMENS EXPOSED TO TCDD: CHEMICALANALISIS, CYP1A-INDUCTION AND HISTOPATHOLOGICAL EFFECTS INLIVER IllJuan B. Ortiz, Begofia Jimenez, Juana Arellano, Maria Luisa Gonzalez de Canales,

Maria Jose Gonzalez, Helmut Segner Esteban Abad, Josep Rivera and CarmenSarasquete

EFFECTS OF ORGANOCHLORINE COMPOUNDS SUCH AS PESTICIDES, PCBSAND DIOXINS ON THYROID HORMONE SYSTEM IN JAPANESE MOTHERS 115Junya Nagayama, Takao Iida, Reiko Nakagawa, Takahiko Matsueda, Hironori

Hirakawa, Jun'ichiro Fukushige and Tadayoshi Watanabe

ANTI-THYROID HORMONAL ACTIVITY OF THE FLAME RETARD ANTS,TETRABROMOBISPHENOL A AND RELATED COMPOUNDS BY A YEASTTWO-HYBRID ASSAY 119Hiroaki Kuroki. Satoko Sakoda, Hitomi Nakaoka, Sayuri Yonekura, Misato Kumate,

Jun-ichi Nishikawa and Tsutomu Nishihara

ASSESSING ESTROGENIC COMPOUND EXPOSURES: TIME TO INDUCTION OFTHE VITELLOGENIN PROTEIN IN MALE FATHEAD MINNOWS EXPOSED TOA COMPLEX WASTEWATER EFFLUENT 123Deborah L, Swackhamer. Randy A. Lehr and Gerald T.Ankley

Formation and Sources

INVESTIGATION OF DIOXIN FORMATION MECHANISMS UNDER SINTERINGCONDITIONS BY USE OF PILOT POT 127Annie Arion, Patrick Florimond, Florence Berho, Elisabeth Marliere, P. Le Louer

INVESTIGATION OF CATALYTIC ACTIVITY OF SEWAGE SLUDGE COMBUSTIONASH FOR PCDD/F FORMATION 131Andres Fullana, Rafael Font, Juan A. Conesa. Sukh Sidhu

PCDD/F EMISSIONS FROM AGRICULTURAL FIELD BURNING 135Brian Gullett. Abderrahmane Touati

FIRST EVALUATION OF PCDD/FS RELEASES TO THE ATMOSPHERE FROM THEMANUFACTURE OF CEMENT IN SPAIN 139Begofia Fabrellas. Maria Luisa Ruiz, Esteban Abad, Josep Rivera and Paloma Sanz

JET-REMPI MONITORING OF 'DE NOVO' FORMATION: (II) TEMPERATURE 143Alfons Buekens. Nadezhda N. Zyaykina, Kathleen Schroyens, Horst-Henning Grotheer,

Reinhold Thanner, Karl-Ludwig Barth, Heinz Pokorny

DIOXIN EMISSIONS FROM BIOMASS FIRED ENERGY PLANTS AND OTHERSOURCES IN DENMARK 147Ole Schleicher. Allan A. Jensen, Peter Blinksbjerg, Erik Thomsen and Bernd Schilling

EFFECT OF COPPER COMPOUNDS ON PCDD/FS FORMATION IN MODELWASTE INCINERATION 151Takeshi Hatanaka. Akio Kitajima and Masao Takeuchi

SENSITIVITY OF PCDD/F FORMATION TO HAZARDOUS WASTE FIRING RATEAND COMBUSTION QUALITY 155Brian Gullett and Abderrahmane Touati

FORMATION OF BROMINATED DIBENZO-P-DIOXINS AND FURANS BYPYROLYSIS REACTION OF BROMINATED PHENOLS 159Yuncheol Na. Jung-Ju Seo, Jongki Hong

FORMATION OF PCDD/F DURING MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE INCINERATIONIN A GRATE FURNACE AT DIFFERENT MODES OF THE AIR SUPPLY 163Hunsineer. H.. Jay, K., Seifert, H.

PATTERN OF REGIOISOMERS OF CHLORINATED BIPHENYLS IN EMISSIONSAMPLES 167Lebikyan. M,. Lenoir, D., Schramm, K.-W, Kettrup, A.,

INVESTIGATION OF CATALYTIC EFFECT SEWAGE SLUDGE COMBUSTIONASH IN THE FORMATION OF HAPS 171Andres Fullana. Sukh Sidhu, Rafael Font and Juan A. Conesa

FORMATION OF POLYCHLORINATED DIBENZO-P-DIOXINS ANDDIBENZOFURANS DURING PHOTOLYSIS OF PENTACHLOROPHENOL INAQUEOUS SOLUTION 175Ming-Hui Zheng. Peng-Yan Liu and Xiao-Bai Xu

PCDD/PCDF MEMORY EFFECTS IN A LABORATORY SCALE INCINERATOR 177Shunichiro Ueno, Junya Nishino, Satoshi Yoshihara and Roland Weber

DE NOVO SYNTHESIS OF MIXED BROMINATED-CHLORINATED PXDD/PXDF 181Roland Weber, Bertram Kuch, Takaaki Ohno and Takeshi Sakurai

EFFECT OF BROMINE SUBSTITUENTS IN THE FORMATION OF PXDD FRMPOLYHALOGENATED PHENOLS 185Takeshi Sakurai, Takaaki Ohno and Roland Weber

A STUDY OF BROMINATED COMPOUND RELEASE FROM APPLIANCE-RECYCLING FACILITY 189Yoshinori Tamade. Shigehiro Shibakawa, Hiroaki Osaki, Shigeki Kashimoto, Yoshio

Yagi, Shin-ichi Sakai and Takumi Takasuga

PCDD/F- EMISSIONS DURING COLD START-UP AND SHUT-DOWN OF AMUNICIPAL WASTE INCINERATOR 193Horst C. Gass. Karl Liider, Michael Wilken

SOURCES OF PCBS IN URBAN AIR AND FACTORS AFFECTING THEIRCONCENTRATIONS 197Isamu Ogura. Shigeki Masunaga, Kikuo Yoshida and Junko Nakanishi

IMPLEMENTATION OF A DETAILED REACTION MECHANISM FOR THEMODELING OF DIOXINS' PRECURSORS FORMATION 201Elena Daniela Lavric. Alexander A. Konnov and Jacques De Ruyck

STUDY OF THE EFFECT OF MATRIX ON FORMATION OF PCDD, PCDF, PCB, ANDPCBZ BY DE NOVO SYNTHETIC REACTIONS UNDER MODEL LABORATORYCONDITIONS 205Grabic R.. Pekarek V, Fiserova E., Ullrich J., Karban J., Crhova S., Tomsej T.

MODELLING DE-NOVO FORMATION OF DIOXINS IN THE EFFLUENT GASCLEANING TRACT OF A ZINC RECYCLING PROCESS 209Hermann Nordsieck. Rene Peche

PCDD/FS FORMATION IN AN ALUMINUM SMELTING PROCESS USING A SMALL-SCALE FURNACE: EFFECTS OF CHLORINE SOURCES 213Masao Takeuchi. Makoto Ootani, Shoji Matsunaga and Tomoya Oozono

DIOXIN-LADEN RESIDUAL STREAMS FROM THERMAL AND METALLURGICALPROCESSES: INVENTORY AND MANAGEMENT 217Alfons Buekens. Kathleen Schroyens, Peter Segers

SEMI-CONTINUOUS JET-REMPI MONITORING OF PCDD/F AND PAH DE NOVOFORMATION. (I) TESTING METHOD AND EFFECT OF TIME 221Alfons Buekens. Nadezhda N. Zyaykina, Kathleen Schroyens, Horst-Henning Grotheer,

Reinhold Thanner, Karl-Ludwig Barth, Heinz Pokorny

PCDD/F FORMATION MECHANISM: EFFECT OF SURFACE COMPOSITION ONCHLORINATION AND CONDENSATION REACTIONS 225Sukh Sidhu and Pulak Nath

NEW SOURCES OF DIOXINS IN INDUSTRIAL PROCESSES AND THEIRINFLUENCES ON WATER QUALITY 229Katsuya Kawamoto

CHARACTERISTIC FORMATION OF DIOXINS WHEN HEATING FLY ASH SAMPLESFROM INCINERATION PLANT 233Kazuvuki Suzuki. Manabu Katagiri, Nobuyasu Kanda, Mazumi Itaya and Katsuya

Kawamoto

DETERMINATION OF POLYCHLORINATED DIBENZO-P-DIOXINS ANDDIBENZOFURANES IN THE FLY ASHES FROM THE HOVAL TYPE MEDICALWASTE INCINERATORS 237Jacek Czerwinski. Marzenna R. Dudzinska, Bartlomiej Rut,

PRESENCE OF DIOXIN IN MSW COMPOST: HUMAN THREAT? A REVIEW 241Sibisi Nonjabulo N and Ragazzi Marco

CHLORINATION EFFECTS ON PCBZS, PCPHS, PCDD/DFS AND PAHS BYDIOXIN-FREE FLYASH AND UNBURNT HYDROCARBON: 2. EFFECT OF HCLCONCENTRATION 245Takumi Takasuga. Norihito Umetsu, Tetsuya Makino and Katsuya Tsubota

ANALYSIS OF THE CATALYTIC FORMATION OF PCDD/FS DURING THESINTERING PROCESS 249Celine Xhrouet. Edwin de Pauw

QUANTITATIVE ESTIMATES OF POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS EMISSIONSTO AMBIENT AIR FROM A STORAGE SITE AND CLEANUP PROJECT 253William J. Mills, III, Peter A. Scheff, An Li, Don Mackay, Tom Holsen

PCDD/F-MEMORY FORMATION AFTER DISTURBED COMBUSTIONCONDITIONS: NEW RESULTS FOR HAZARDOUS AND MUNICIPAL WASTEINCINERATION PLANTS 257R. Zimmermann. K.Neuer-Etscheid, H.Nordsieck, M.Sklorz, M.Blumenstock, K.-

W.Schramm, A.Kettrup,

PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS AS A TOOL TO ELUCIDATE THE ORIGINOF PCDD/FS RELEASES TO THE ATMOSPHERE 261Maria Luisa Ruiz. Paloma Sanz and Begofia Fabrellas

COMPARATIVE STUDY OF DIOXIN FORMATION IN TWO MSWIS 265Edward Ma. M. S. Hsu, P. S. Cheng, U. Chou, C.N. Chen, C. L. Chu, S.H. Hung, Y. C.

Ling

FORMATION OF PCDDS AND PCDFS FROM METHANE-FLAME, GAS-PHASEBY-PRODUCTS; SOOT DEPOSITS; AND FLY ASH 269Eyalena Wikstrom. Abderrahmane Touati, Shawn Ryan and Brian Gullett

POLYHALOGENATED DIBENZO-P-DIOXINS AND DIBENZOFURANS IN THEEXHAUST FUMES AND FLY ASHES OF MUNICIPAL WASTE ANDINDUSTRIAL INCINERATORS 273Hugues Preud'homme. Martine Potin-Gautier

THEORETICAL STUDY OF OPEN- SHELL IPSO-ADDITION AND BIS-KETO DIMERINTERCONVERSION REACTIONS RELATED TO GAS - PHASE FORMATION OFPCDD/FS FROM CHLORINATED PHENOLS 277Ruben Asatryan. Aram Davtyan, Lavrent Khachatryan, Barry Dellinger

CHARACTERIZATION AND QUANTIFICATION OF DIOXIN-LIKE COMPOUNDSIN FLUE GAS CONDENSATES OF MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTEINCINERATORS 281Hermann O. Nordsieck. Wolfgang Miicke

PERSISTENT TOXIC SUBSTANCES AT THE ASIAN TERRITORY OF RUSSIA:REGIONALLY BASED ESTIMATION 285Sergei Yufit and Elena Grosheva

AUSTRALIA'S NATIONAL DIOXINS PROGRAM 289Pamela Harris, Andrew Ivory and Chris Mobbs

DIOXIN EMISSION INVENTORY 2000 IN JAPAN 293Ryuzo Sugimoto, Masashi Kaichi, Masako Tsuchiya, Soichiro Seki

PRIMARY AND SECONDARY PCDD/F FORMATIONS IN A MUNICIPAL SOLIDWASTE INCINERATOR 297Noriaki Ishibashi. Yoshinobu Yoshihara, Kazuie Nishiwaki, Shigenobu Okajima,

Masakatsu Hiraoka, Kotaro Endo

CONGENER PATTERNS OF PCDD/F IN MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTEINCINERATION BASED ON CHEMICAL EQUILIBRIUM ANALYSIS 301Yoshinobu Yoshihara. Noriaki Ishibashi, Junichi Ishizu, Masakatsu Hiraoka, Hideyuki

Yamamoto

PARAMETER UNCERTAINTY IN PROBABILISTIC EXPOSURE MODELING 305Kai Lessmann, Andreas Beyer, Jorg Klasmeier and Michael Matthies

OCCUPATIONAL CONTAMINATION WITH PCDD/F'S DURING RECYCLINGOF NON-GAMMA HCH IN A CHINESE CHEMICAL FACTORY. PART IVCOMPARISON OF SAMPLES IN AND OUTSIDE THE FACTORY WITHISOMER AND CONGENER PATTERNS 307Kees Olie. Pieter-Jan Coenraads, Nai-Jun Tang, William J. Luksemburg and

Wong, A.S

Levels of PCB, PCDD and PCDF in human milk:3rd round of WHO-coordinated exposure study

RESULTS OF THE THIRD ROUND OF THE WHO-COORDINATED EXPOSURESTUDY ON THE LEVELS OF PCBS, PCDDS AND PCDFS IN HUMAN MILK 311FX Rolaf van Leeuwen and Rainer Malisch

THIRD ROUND OF WHO-COORDINATED EXPOSURE STUDY: ANALYSIS OFPCDDS, PCDFS AND PCBS IN HUMAN MILK 317Rainer Malisch and FX Rolaf van Leeuwen

PCDDS; PCDFS AND DIOXIN-LIKE PCBS IN HUMAN MILK SAMPLES FROMAUSTRALIA 321Jochen F. Miiller, Fiona Harden, Michael R. Moore, Yoke Berry. Rainer Malisch

TEMPORAL AND SPATIAL TRENDS OF PCDDS/PCDFS AND PCBS INNORWEGIAN BREAST MILK - RESULTS FROM THREE ROUNDS OF WHOCO-ORDINATED STUDIES 325Georg Becher. Line Smastuen Haug, Tove Nicolaysen, Anuschka Polder, Janneche

Utne Skaare

DIOXIN AND DIOXIN-LIKE PCBS IN BRAZIL RESULTS FROM THE THIRDROUND OF WHO-COORDINATED EXPOSURE STUDY IN HUMAN MILK 329Ana Maria C. B. Braga. Thomas Krauss, William Waissmann, Denise F. Tavares da

Silva, Angelo Z. Trape

CONTAMINATION OF HUMAN MILK WITH PCDDS, PCDFS AND PCBS IN TWORUSSIAN CITIES 333Sergei Yufit. Rolaf van Leeuwen, Rainer Malisch and Dmitrii P. Samsonov

LEVELS, TRENDS AND DETERMINANTS OF ORGANOHALOGEN COMPOUNDSIN BREAST MILK IN THE NETHERLANDS 337Diane A. Houweling. G.M. Steentjes, A. van Dekken, R.A. Baumann, R. Hoogerbrugge

and M.J. Zeilmaker

MINIMIZATION OF DIOXINS IN THERMAL AND INDUSTRIAL PROCESSES:MECHANISMS, MONITORING AND ABATEMENT (MINIDIP): MAINACHIEVEMENTS OF THIS EU-PROJECT 341Alfons Buekens. Peter Segers, Kathleen Schroyens, Nadezhda Zyaykina

Dioxin reduction and prevention

ABATEMENT OF DIOXIN EMISSIONS IN ELECTRIC ARC FURNACE EXHAUSTFLUE GAS 345Annie Arion, Jean-Pierre Birat, Paul-Marie Marquaire, Francois Baronnet

INVESTIGATION OF PCDD/DF, PXDD/DF, PBDD/DF AND NITRO-PAH DETECTEDON FLUE GAS FROM WASTE INCINERATOR 349Teruyuki Nakao, Souichi Ohta, Osamu Aozasa and Hideaki Miyata

EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATIONS OF HOMOGENEOUS GAS-PHASE SO2AND CL2 REACTIONS FOR PCDD/F SUPPRESSION 353Mamie Telfer and Brian Gullett

PCDD/PCDF REMOVAL OVER IMPREGNATED ACTIVATED CARBON USINGADSORPTION PROCESS IN MSW INCINERATOR 357Hoo-Kun Lee, Kil-Nam Jang, Young-Whan Lee, Dae-Ki Choi. Chang-Han Joo. Dong-

Hee Jung

THE BEHAVIOR OF DIOXIN FORMATION IN A MSWI DURING IMPROVEMENTENGINEERING 361Edward Ma. M. S. Hsu, P. S. Cheng, U. Chou, C.N. Chen and Y. C. Ling

DIOXINS EMISSION OF A FLUIDIZED-BED GASIFICATION AND MELTINGPROCESS FOR MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE 365Tadashi Ito. Tomio Suzuki

CARBON DOPED POLYPROPYLENE AS PCDD/F ADSORBER 369S. Kreisz. H. Hunsinger, H. Seifert

PROGRESS ON REDUCING HEXACHLOROBENZENE IN THE ONTARIO GREATLAKES BASIN 373Thomas Tseng

EFFECT OF CATALYST ON RADIATION-INDUCED DECOMPOSITION OFCHLORINATED COMPOUNDS IN GROUNDWATER 375Myun-Joo Lee. Jinho Jung, Dae-Hyun Yoo, Bo-Ryoung Park

DEGRADATION CONDITIONS OF POLY CLORINATED-P-DIOXINS ANDFURANS IN DIFFERENT CONTAMINATED SOILS FOR BIOREACTORSYSTEM 379Kazuei Ishii. Tohru Furuichi, Takumi Funada and Masahiko Shioyama

VERIFICATION TEST ON SUPPRESSION EFFECT OF DIOXIN FORMATION ATCOMBUSTION OF REFUSE BAGS MIXED WITH IRON OXIDE CATALYST 383Yasuhiko Fujii. Toshiki Matsui, Tomoyuki Imai, Suminori Tanaka and Hiroshi Kagawa

CHARACTERISTICS OF DEGRADATION OF DIOXINS BY MIX-BACTERIA 387Ikuo Souta, Tohru Furuichi, Kazuei Ishii, Kunihiko Otonari

POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS REMOVAL FROM MUNICIPAL SOLIDWASTE INCINERATION FLY ASH BY SURFACTANT-ASSISTED COLUMNFLOTATION 389Ying Huang. Masaki Takaoka, Nobuo Takeda

CATALYTIC DECHLORINATION OF PCDDS, PCDFS AND CO-PCBS WITHSUPPORTED PALLADIUM CATALYSTS 393Yuji Ukisu and Tatsuo Miyadera

ACTIVATED COKE FOR THE REMOVAL OF DIOXINS 397Kyong-Tae Kim. Dong Jun Koh and Jin Hong Kim

BIOREMEDIATION OF SOIL CONTAMINATED WITH POLYCYCLIC AROMATICHYDROCARBONS USING A DRUM BIOREACTOR 401Yong-Mal Jo. Ki-Chul Cho, Ji-Soon Kang, Kwang-Joong Oh and Won Sik Shin

EFFECT OF WATER TREATMENT FOR THE MINIMIZATION OF DIOXINS ANDORIGIN OF DIOXINS IN DRINKING WATER 405Hyun-koo Kim. Hiroshi Nakamura, Yoshie Seki, Tohru Matsumura, Koichi Ohno,

Tasuku Kamei and Yasumoto Magara

DESTRUCTION OF PCBS AND OTHER POLYHALOGENATED POLYAROMATICCOMPOUNDS VIA CARBONYLATION ON A MODIFIED COBALT CATALYST.II. STRUCTURAL STUDY OF PCB-CARBOXYLIC ACIDS ANDCARBONYLATION OF SOVTOL 409Vladimir A. Nikiforov. Vadim P. Boyarsky, Tatiana E. Zhesko, Svetlana A. Lanina,

Erkki Kolehmainen and Elina Virtanen

DECHLORINATION PATHWAYS OF PCBS BY PHOTOCHEMICAL REACTIONAND CATALYTIC HYDRO-DECHLORINATION 413Yukio Noma. Takehiko Muramatu, Katsushi Nishizawa, Masayuki Ohno, Shin-ichi

Sakai

RECYCLING OF TECHNICAL POYMERS FROM ELECTRONIC WASTE WHILEELIMINATING BROMINATED FLAME RETARDADANTS AND PBDD/F 417Martin Schlummer. Fritz Brandl, Ludwig Gruber, Andreas Maurer, Angela Moller,

Gerd Wolz

DIOXIN EMISSION REDUCTION AT NON-FERROUS METALS PLANTS IN THEFLEMISH REGION (BELGIUM) - ENFORCEMENT APPROACH OF THEENVIRONMENT INSPECTION SECTION 421Filip Francois, Paul Bernaert, Robert Baert

A NEW DESTRUCTION TECHNIQUE FOR DIOXIN ANALOGUES IN LANDFILLSAND FLY ASH CONCERNING WASTE COMBUSTION BY DCR-DEHALOGENATED METHOD 425Hideaki Miyata. Teruyuki Nakao, Hideyuki Ito, Koichi Nakatsuji, Kanichi Adachi,

Koji Suguro, Makoto Hosoya, Hiroshi Nishimura, Hirokazu Tsuji, ToshihiroKameko and Nobuhiro Higashi

PRELIMINARY STUDIES ON PHOTOLYSIS OF POLYCHLORINATED DIBENZO-P-DIOXINS ON SOILS SURFACE 429Yuso Kobara. Satoru Ishihara, Kazuhisa Ohtsu, Takeshi Horio and Sozo Endo

BIOREMEDIATION TREATMENT FOR CLEANING UP TOXIC CHEMICALCONTAMINATED SOIL IN FIELD TRIALS 433Dang Thi Cam Ha, Nguyen Ba Huu, Pham Thi Quynh Van, Nguyen Thi De, Nguyen

Quoc Viet, Nguyen Duong Nha, La Thanh Phuong, Tran Nhu Hoa, Mai Anh Tuan,Pham Huu Ly, Nguyen Van Minh, Le Van Hong, Do Quang Huy, Dang Vu Minh,Nguyen Due Hue

Environmental levels and trends

THE NATIONAL DIOXIN AIR MONITORING NETWORK (NDAMN):MEASUREMENTS OF CDDS, CDFS AND COPLANAR PCBS AT 18 RURAL , 8NATIONAL PARKS, AND 2 SUBURBAN AREAS OF THE UNITED STATES:RESULTS FOR THE YEAR 2000 437David H. Cleverly. Dwain Winters, Joseph Ferrario, Karen Riggs, Pamela Hartford,

Darrell Joseph, Tony Wisbith, Aubry Dupuy and Christian Byrne

SPATIOTEMPORAL TRENDS OF PCDD/FS IN BELGIAN COW'S MILK 441Rudy Van Cleuvenbergen. Pierre Mannaert, Nancy Van Durme, Christine Vinkx and

Leo Goeyens

LEVEL OF PCDD/PCDF IN MARINE MAMMAL FAT FROM THE CHUKOTSKIYPENNINSULA, SIBIRIA, FROM CA. 600-700 AD 445Michael Oehme. Olaf Papke, Ivan C. Burkow, Hanne Foshaug and H. Muller-Beck

PASSIVE SAMPLING SURVEY OF PBDES AND PCBS IN UK AIR 449Brian P. Corrigan. Kevin C. Jones

SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL TRENDS IN PERSISTENT ORGANIC POLLUTANTSIN LAKE ONTARIO SEDIMENTS 453Chris Marvin. Gary Stern, Eric Reiner, Karen MacPherson, Terry Kolic, Eric Braekevelt

and Scott Painter

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TEMPORAL AND SPATIAL TRENDS OF PCDD/F LEVELS IN COW'S MILK INSWITZERLAND 489Peter Schmid. Erika Gujer, Markus Zennegg, Christoph Studer

RECONSTRUCTION OF HISTORICAL TRENDS OF PCDD/FS AND PCBS IN THEVENICE LAGOON, ITALY 491M. Dalla Valle. A. Marcomini, A. Sweetman and K.C. Jones

TRENDS OF POPS IN BIOTA OF THE ATLANTIC OCEAN - SAMPLES OF 1981/82REANALYZED AND CHARACTERIZED WITH GC/ECD, GC/EI-MSD ANDGC/NCI-MSD 495Rudolf Hackenberg. Ralf Looser, Oliver Froescheis, Karlheinz Ballschmiter