ABBREVIATIONS
- ASE:
Accelerated solvent extraction
- dl-PCBs:
Dioxin-like polychlorinated biphenyls
- GC-HRMS:
Gas chromatography-high-resolution mass spectrometry
- HpCDF:
Heptachlorodibenzofuran
- HxCDD:
Hexachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin
- HpCDD:
Heptachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin
- LOQ:
Limit of detection
- ndl-PCBs:
Non-dioxin-like polychlorinated biphenyls
- OCDD:
Octachlorodibenzodioxin
- PCB:
Polychlorinated biphenyls
- PCDDs:
Polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins.
- PCDFs:
Polychlorinated dibenzofurans
- PCDD/Fs:
Polychlorinated dibenzodioxins
- PeCDD:
Pentachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin
- PeCDF:
Pentachlorodibenzofuran
- POPs:
Persistent organic pollutants
- TCDD:
Tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin
- TCDF:
Tetrachlorodibenzofuran
- TEQ:
Toxic Equivalents
- USEPA:
United States Environmental Protection Agency
- WHO-TEQ:
World Health Organization – Toxic Equivalents