Offshore Sediment OPEs

High-Risk Emerging Pollutants Identified

A national-scale survey across five major offshore regions identified 10 traditional OPEs, 10 emerging OPEs, and 2 organothiophosphate esters, with AO168=O exceeding 50% of total OPEs and prioritized as high-risk.

Wang, Shu · Deng, Rui · Tan, Ehui · Wang, Jin · Ma, Jian

Journal of Environmental Management 2025

Specifications

OPEs

{'zh': '261', 'en': ''} ng/g

AO O exceeded

{'zh': '50', 'en': '22'} OPEs

Advantages

Sediment cores revealed a significant temporal increase in OPE burdens over recent decades, with rising proportions of emerging OPEs and organothiophosphate esters