Cyclic volatile methyl siloxanes (D4, D5, and D6) as the emerging pollutants in environment: environmental distribution, fate, and toxicological assessments

• Published in: Environmental science and pollution research international Vol. 31; no. 27; pp. 38681 - 38709
• Main Authors: Kumari, Kanchan, Singh, Anshika, Marathe, Deepak
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin/Heidelberg Springer Berlin Heidelberg 01.06.2024; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: air; Animals; Aquatic organisms; Aquatic Pollution; Atmospheric Protection/Air Quality Control/Air Pollution; Biogas; Biosolids; Biota; Chemical compounds; Chemical properties; Consumer products; Contamination; domain; Earth and Environmental Science; Ecotoxicology; Environment; Environmental behavior; Environmental Chemistry; Environmental Health; Environmental Monitoring; Environmental Pollutants - analysis; Environmental Pollutants - toxicity; Formulations; Health hazards; Humans; Indoor environments; Innovative Strategies for Management of Polluted Aquatic Ecosystems: Wastewater Treatment and Resource Recovery; issues and policy; pollution; Risk Assessment; Rodents; Sediments; Siloxanes; Siloxanes - analysis; Siloxanes - toxicity; Sludge; soil; Soil water; Solid wastes; Toxic hazards; Toxicity; Uterine cancer; Waste Water Technology; wastewater; Water Management; Water Pollution Control; Cyclic volatile methyl siloxanes; Toxicity; Partitioning coefficient; Bioaccumulation; Environmental behavior; Biomagnification

Cyclic volatile methyl siloxanes (cVMS) have now become a subject of environmental contamination and risk assessment due to their widespread use and occurrence in different environmental matrices. Due to their exceptional physio-chemical properties, these compounds are diversely used for formulation...