Paro's Research Group

2008-2011

Persistent organic pollutants in human breast milk in India. Gnanasekaran, D.; Subramanian, A.; Someya, M.; Sudaryanto, A.; Kunisue, T.; Takahashi, S., Paromita Chakraborty; Tanabe, S. Environmental Pollution, 2008, 157(1): 148-54

Passive Air Sampling of Polychlorinated Biphenyls, Organochlorine Compounds, and Polybrominated Diphenyl Ethers in Urban, Rural and Wetland Sites along the Coastal length of India. Zhang, G.; Paromita Chakraborty; Jun Li; Sampathkumar, P.; Balasubramanian, T.; Kathiresan, K.; Takahashi, S.; Subramanian, A.; Tanabe, S.; Jones, K. C. Environmental Science and Technology; 2008, 42 (22): pp 8218–8223; DOI: 10.1021/es8016667

Accumulating characteristics of platinum group elements (PGE) in urban environments, China Suhong Pan, Gan Zhang , Yali Sun , Paromita Chakraborty. Science of the Total Environment, 2008, 407(14): 4248-52

Persistent Organic Pollutants in Breast Milk of Mothers residing around an Open Dumping Site in Kolkata, India: Specific Dioxin-Like PCB Levels as a Potential Source. Masayuki Someya, Masako Ohtake, Tatsuya Kunisue, Annamalai Subramanian, Shin Takahashi, Paromita Chakraborty, Ramesh Ramachandran, Shinsuke Tanabe. Environment International, 2009, 36 (1): 27-35

Selected organochlorine pesticides in the atmosphere of major Indian cities: levels, regional versus local variations and sources. Paromita Chakraborty; Zhang, G.; Li J; Xu Y; Liu X; Tanabe S; Jones, K. C. Environmental Science and Technology; 2010. 44 (21), pp 8038–8043. DOI: 10.1021/es102029t

Passive air sampling of organochlorine pesticides in a northeastern state of India, Manipur. Ningombam Linthoingambi Devi, Qi Shihua, Paromita Chakraborty, Gan Zhang, Ishwar Chandra Yadav. Journal of environmental sciences, 2011;23(5): 808-15

Distribution of polychlorinated biphenyls in agricultural soils from NCR, Delhi, India. Bhupander Kumar, Sanjay Kumar, Gargi Goel,Richa Gaur, Meenu Mishra, S. K. Singh, Dev Prakash, Paromita Chakraborty, and C. S. Sharma. Annals of Biological Research, 2011. Vol-2, Issue-3, pp 247-254

Perfluorinated compounds in the Asian atmosphere. Environmental Science and Technology; 2011. Jun Li, Sabino Del Vento, Jasmin Schuster, Gan Zhang, Paromita Chakraborty, Yuso Kobara and Kevin C. Jones. Environmental Science and Technology; 45 (17), pp 7241–7248. DOI: 10.1021/es201739t

Have reductions in atmospheric PCBs in rich countries been achieved partly by export of toxic wastes? Knut Breivik, Rosalinda Gioia, Paromita Chakraborty, Gan Zhang and Kevin C. Jones. Environmental Science and Technology, 2011. ISSN 0013-936X. 45(21), s 9154- 9160 . DOI: 10.1021/es202320c

Polychlorinated Biphenyls (PCBs) in the Sediments of the River Chenab, Pakistan: Current levels and Their Toxicological Concerns. Syed Ali-Musstjab-Akber-Shah Eqani, Riffat Naseem Malik, Gan Zhang, Ashiq Mohammad, Paromita Chakraborty. Chemistry and Ecology, 2011. DOI:10.1080/02757540.2012.667085

Long-range atmospheric transport of persistent organochlorines from India and Mainland South-eastern Asia at a remote mountain site in south-western China.Yue Xu , Gan Zhang, Jun Li, Paromita Chakraborty, Hua Yu , Xiang Liu. Journal of Environ. Monitoring., 2011, 13, 3119-3127 DOI: 10.1039/C1EM10470E

2012-15

Distribution and risk assessment of organchlorine contaminants in surface water from River Chenab, Pakistan. Eqani, S., Malik, R. N., Katsoyiannis, A., Zhang, G., Chakraborty, P., Mohammad, A., Jones, K.C. Journal of Environ. Monitoring. 2012. DOI: 10.1039/c2em11012a

Spatial studies of platinum group elements (PGE), 2-(4-morpholinyl) benzothiazole (24MoBT) and N-cyclohexyl-2-benzothiazolame (NCBA) in urban dusts along motorways, China. Suhong Pan, Yali Sun, Gan Zhang, Qilai Xie and Paromita Chakraborty. Atmospheric Environement., 2012, 56, 246-249

Evaluation of wastewater treatment by-products as soil amendment: growth of sorghum-sudan grass and trace elements concentrations. ParamasivamSivapatham, Mariel C. Potts, Jeffrey A. Delise, Kenneth S. Sajwan, Ashok K. Alva, KuppuswamyJayaraman and ParomitaChakraborty. Journal of Environmental Science and Health, Part B. 2012. DOI: 10.1080/10934529.2012.68726

Hexachlorocyclohexane and Dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane in the Sediments from the Deltaic Coast of Bay of Bengal, in the East Coast of India. Kumar Bhupander, Mukherjee Debapriya, Chakraborty Paromita J. Int. Environmental Application & Science, 2012, Vol. 7 (4): 750-761

Spatial distributions and characteristics of platinum group elements (PGE) in urban dusts from China. SuhongPan,Yali Sun, Gan Zhang, and ParomitaChakraborty. Journal of Geochemical Exploration, 2013, 128, 153–157

Selected organochlorine pesticides (OCPs) in surface soils from three major states of the northeastern part of India. NingombamLinthoingambi Devi, ParomitaChakraborty, Qi Shihua and Gan Zhang. Journal of Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, 2013,185:6667–6676

A comparison study of atmospheric polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in three Indian cities using PUF disk passive air samplers. 2013. Hairong Cheng, Zongming Deng, ParomitaChakraborty, Di Liu, Ruijie Zhang, YueXu, ChunlinLuo, Gan Zhang, Jun Li. Atmospheric Environment, 2013, 73, 16-21

Human Health Risk from HCH and DDT Pesticides, through Consumption of Vegetables: Estimation of Daily Intake and Hazard Quotients (HQs). Bhupander Kumar, VermaVK, Naskar AK, ParomitaChakraborty, Sanjay Kumar Sharma CS. Journal of Xenobiotics, 2013, 3: 6

Atmospheric Polychlorinated biphenyls in Indian cities: Levels, Emission Sources and Toxicity. ParomitaChakraborty; Gan Zhang; Sabine Eckhardt; Jun Li; Knut Breivik; Paul Lam; Shinsuke Tanabe; Kevin Jones. Environmental Pollution, 2013, 182: 283-290

Atmospheric polychlorinated naphthalenes (PCNs) in India and Pakistan. YueXu, Jun Li, ParomitaChakraborty, Jabir Hussain Syed, RiffatNaseem Malik, Yan Wang,ChongguoTian, ChunlingLuo, Gan Zhang, Kevin C. Jones. Sci Total Environ, 2014, 28; 466-467:1030-6

Modeling the emission sources for polychlorinated biphenyls in India: implications for human health risk assessment. ParomitaChakraborty. Reviews on Environmental Health, 2014, 29, Issue 1-2, 37–40, ISSN (Online) 2191-0308, ISSN (Print) 0048-7554, DOI: 10.1515/reveh-2014-0011

Spatial distribution of persistent organic pollutants in the surface water of River Brahmaputra and River Ganga in India. ParomitaChakraborty, S. Sakthivel, Bhupander Kumar, Sanjay Kumar, Meenu Mishra, V.K. Verma and Richa Gaur. Reviews on Environmental Health, 2014, 29, Issue 1-2, 45–48, ISSN (Online) 2191-0308, ISSN (Print) 0048-7554, DOI: 10.1515/reveh-2014-0014

Screening of Atmospheric Short- and Medium-Chain Chlorinated Paraffins in India and Pakistan using Polyurethane Foam Based Passive Air Samplers. Chakra Chaemfa, YueXu, Jun Li, ParomitaChakraborty, Jabir Hussain Syed, RiffatNaseem Malik, Yan Wang, Jun Wen Lie, Gan Zhang, and Kevin C Jones. Environmental Science & Technology, 2014, 48, 4799−4808

Distribution and risk assessment of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) in the remote air and soil of MAnipur, India. NL Devi, IC Yadav, Q Shihua, P Chakraborty, Y Dan. Environmental Earth Sciences, 2014, 1-13

Occurrence and sources of selected organochlorine pesticides in the soil of seven major Indian cities: Assessment of air-soil exchange. ParomitaChakraborty, Zhang G, Li J, Sivakumar A, Jones KC, Environmental Pollution, 2015, 204(0): 74-80

2016-19

CALUX bioassay: a cost-effective rapid screening technique for screening dioxins like compounds. SakthivelSelvaraj, BalasubramanianPrithiviraj, Masafumi Nakamura, ShunkeiKo and ParomitaChakraborty Reviews on environmental health, 2016; 31: 149-152

Occurrence, Sources and Estimation of Air-Soil Exchange of Polychlorinated biphenyls in Indian cities. ParomitaChakraborty, Zhang G, Li J, SakthivelSelveraj, Knut Breivik and Kevin Jones. Science of the Total Environment, 2016; 562: 928-934

Polychlorinated biphenyls and organochlorine pesticides in River Brahmaputra from the outer Himalayan Range and River Hooghly emptying into the Bay of Bengal: occurrence, sources and ecotoxicological risk assessment. ParomitaChakraborty, SanjenbamNirmalaKhuman, SakthivelSelvaraj,;SrimuraliSampath, NingombamLinthhoi Devi, John Bang, AthanasiosKatsoyiannis. Environmental Pollution, 2016, 219, 998–1006

Polychlorinated biphenyls in settled dust from informal electronic waste recycling workshops and nearby highways in urban centers and suburban industrial roadsides of Chennai city, India: Levels, Congener profiles and Exposure Assessment. ParomitaChakraborty, BalasubramanianPrithiviraj, Sakthivel Selvaraj, Virendra Kumar and Bhupander Kumar. Science of Total Environment, 2016, 573, 1413–1421

Spatial Distribution and Seasonal Variation of Phthalates using Passive Air Sampling in Southern India.SrimuraliSampath, Krishna Kumar Selvaraj, GovindarajShanmugam, VimalkumarKrishnamoorthy, ParomitaChakraborty, BabuRajendranRamaswamy. Environmental Pollution, 2017, 221, 407–417

Passive air sampling of polybrominateddiphenyl ethers in New Delhi, Kolkata, Mumbai and Chennai: Levels, homologous profiling and source apportionment. ParomitaChakraborty,Gan Zhang, Hairong Cheng, PrithivirajBalasubramanian, Jun Li and Kevin C Jones. Environmental Pollution, 2017, 231(1),1181-1187

PCBs and PCDD/Fs in soil from informal e-waste recycling sites and open dumpsites in India: Levels, congener profiles and health risk assessment. ParomitaChakraborty, SakthivelSelvaraj, Masafumi Nakamura, BalasubramanianPrithiviraj, Alessandra Cincinelli, John J. Bange; Science of The Total Environment, 2018, 621,930-938

Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in surface waters and riverine sediments of the Hooghly and Brahmaputra Rivers in the Eastern and Northeastern India. Khuman, S.N., Chakraborty, P., Cincinelli, A., Snow, D. and Kumar, B., Science of The Total Environment, 2018, 636, 751-760

Polychlorinated Biphenyls in Surface Soil from North-East India: Implication for Sources Apportionment and Health-Risk Assessment.Devi, N.L., Yadav, I.C., Chakraborty, P. and Shihua, Q. Archives of environmental contamination and toxicology, 2018, 1-13

Prevention-intervention strategies to reduce exposure to e-waste. Heacock, M., Trottier, B., Adhikary, S., Asante, K.A., Basu, N., Brune, M.N., Caravanos, J., Carpenter, D., Cazabon, D., Chakraborty, P. and Chen, A. Reviews on environmental health, 2018, 33(2), 219-228

Seasonal variation of atmospheric organochlorine pesticides and polybrominated diphenyl ethers in Parangipettai, Tamil Nadu, India: Implication for atmospheric transport. Chakraborty, P., Zhang, G., Li, J., Sampathkumar, P., Balasubramanian, T., Kathiresan, K., Takahashi, S., Subramanian, A., Tanabe, S. and Jones, K.C. Science of the Total Environment, 2018, 649, 1653-1660

Subhavana, K.L., Asif Qureshi, Paromita Chakraborty and Tiwari.A.K., Mercury and Organochlorines in the Terrestrial Environment of Schirmacher Hills, Antarctica, Bulletin of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology, 2018, 1-6; https://doi.org/10.1007/s00128-018-2497

Sancho Rajan., Geethu, V., Srimurali Sampath and Paromita Chakraborty, Occurrences of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon from Adayar and Cooum Riverine Sediment in Chennai city, India. International Journal of Environmental Science and Technology, 2018, 1-10

Organic micropollutants in the riverine sediment along the lower stretch of the River Ganga: occurrences, sources and risk assessment; Paromita Chakraborty, Moitraiyee Mukhopadhyay, SrimuraliSampath, BabuRajendran Ramaswamy, AthanasiosKatsoyiannis, Alessandra Cincinelli, Daniel Snow. Environmental Pollution, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envpol.2018.10.115

Sanjenbam Nirmala Khuman and Paromita Chakraborty, Air-water exchange of pesticidal persistent organic pollutants in the lower stretch of the transboundary river India Ganga, Chemosphere, 2019, Vol 233, 966-974

Characterization of some naphthalene utilizing bacteria isolated from contaminated Cooum Riverine sediment of the Bay of Bengal (India) Sancho Rajan, Anwesha Pattanaik, Venkatesh Kumaresan, Prasanth Bhatt, Senthilarasu Gunasekaran, Jesu Arockiaraj, Mukesh Pasupuleti, Vladimir P. Beskoski and Paromita Chakraborty; Journal of Serbian Chemistry Society, 2019, Vol 84, No 2

Balasubramanian Prithiviraj and Paromita Chakraborty, Is informal electronic waste recycling a newer source for atmospheric industrial persistent organic pollutants in Indian metropolitan cities? Current Opinion in Environmental Science & Health, 2019, Vol 8, 29-35, ISSN 2468-5844

Paromita Chakraborty, Mukhopadhyay Moitraiyee, Srimurali Sampath, Babu Rajendran Ramaswamy, Athanasios Katsoyiannis, Alessandra Cincinelli, Daniel Snow, Organic micropollutants in the surface riverine sediment along the lower stretch of the transboundary river Ganga: Occurrences, sources and ecological risk assessment. Environmental Pollution, 2019, Vol 249, 1071-1080

Phthalic Acid Esters, Bisphenol A and Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon in the surface soil of the informal electronic waste recycling workshops and nearby open dumpsites of Indian cities; Paromita Chakraborty, Srimurali Sampath, Moitraiyee Mukhopadhyay, Sakthivel Selvraj, Girija K Bharat, Luca Nizzetto; Environmental Pollution, 2019, Vol 248, 1036-1045, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envpol.2018.11.010