Organic Soil Pollutants
in Novi Sad City, Yugoslavia

Biljana D. Škrbić1, Jelena D. Cvejanov1, N. Djurišić-Mladenović1, and Jan J. Sudji2

1 Faculty of Technology, University of Novi Sad, Yugoslavia
2 Institute for Occupational Health, Novi Sad, Yugoslavia

Corresponding author: Prof. Biljana Škrbić
    Faculty of Technology University of Novi Sad
    Bulevar cara Lazara 1
    YU-21000 Novi Sad, Yugoslavia
    Telephone: (+381) 21 450288
    Fax number: (+381) 21 450413
    E-mail address: biljana@tehnol.ns.ac.yu

CEJOEM 2002, Vol.8. No.2–3.:83–89

Key words:
soil, pollution, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, polychlorinated biphenyls, chlorinated pesticides

Abbreviations:
DDD = dichlorodiphenyl dichloroethane
DDE = dichlorodiphenyl dichloroethlylene
DDT = dichlorodiphenyl trichloroethane
GC = gas chromatography
GC/ECD = gas chromatography/electron capture detector
GC/FID = gas chromatography/flame ionization detector 		HCB = hexachlorobenzene
HCH = hexachlorocyclohexane
OCP = organochlorinated pesticide
PAH = polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon
PCB = polychlorinated biphenyl
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Abstract:
Organic pollutants (polychlorinated biphenyls, chlorinated insecticides, chlorobenzenes and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons) were investigated in composite soil samples collected from six locations in the area of Novi Sad (Yugoslavia) in early 2001. A three-step procedure was used for the preparation and determination of these compounds: extraction of organic matter from the sample matrix, isolation from the extract by adsorption chromatography, and identification and quantitative determination by gas chromatography. Presented are levels of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons and some chlorinated pesticides and their metabolites in the soil samples. The obtained results are compared to average concentrations of the same substances determined in soil of urban and industrial areas.

Received:  3 July 2002
Accepted:  12 September 2002
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