TY  - CHAP
M1  - Book, Section
TI  - Polychlorinated Biphenyls
A1  - Clapp, Richard W.
A2  - Wallace, Robert B.
PY  - 2017
T2  - Maxcy-Rosenau-Last Public Health and Preventive Medicine, 15e
AB  - The  group  of  chemicals  termed  polychlorinated  biphenyls  is  part  of  the  larger  class  of  chlorinated  organic  hydrocarbon  chemicals.  There  are  209  individual  compounds  (congeners)  with  varying  numbers  and  locations  of  chlorine  on  the  two  phenyl  rings,  with  varying  degrees  of  toxicity  and  adverse  human  and  ecological  effects.1  Some  of  the  PCBs  are  structurally  similar  to  dioxins  and  furans  and  these  congeners  may  cause  similar  health  effects.2  The  higher  chlorinated  PCBs  are  particularly  persistent  in  the  environment,3  although  not  all  potential  congeners  were  manufactured  and  there  was  a  shift  toward  lower-chlorinated  PCB  mixtures  in  later  years.  In  1976,  the  U.S.  Congress  passed  the  Toxic  Substances  Control  Act  which  led  to  the  ban  of  production  of  PCBs  in  the  United  States.  
SN  - 
PB  - McGraw-Hill Medical
CY  - New York, NY
Y2  - 2024/04/20
UR  - accessbiomedicalscience.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1141969871
ER  -