Reviews of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology

Reviews of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology attempts to provide concise, critical reviews of timely advances, philosophy and significant areas of accomplished or needed endeavor in the total field of xenobiotics, in any segment of the environmen

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Volume 194

Reviews of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology

Reviews of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology VOLUME 194

Reviews of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology Editor

David M. Whitacre

Editorial Board Lilia A. Albert, Xalapa, Veracruz, Mexico • Charles P. Gerba, Tucson, Arizona, USA John Giesy, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada • O. Hutzinger, Bayreuth, Germany James B. Knaak, Getzville, New York, USA James T. Stevens, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA Ronald S. Tjeerdema, Davis, California, USA • Pim de Voogt, Amsterdam, The Netherlands George W. Ware, Tucson, Arizona, USA

Founding Editor Francis A. Gunther

VOLUME 194

Coordinating Board of Editors Dr. David M. Whitacre, Editor Reviews of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology 5115 Bunch Road Summerfield North, Carolina 27358, USA (336) 634-2131 (PHONE and FAX) E-mail: [email protected] Dr. Herbert N. Nigg, Editor Bulletin of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology University of Florida 700 Experiment Station Road Lake Alfred, Florida 33850, USA (863) 956-1151; FAX (941) 956-4631 E-mail: [email protected] Dr. Daniel R. Doerge, Editor Archives of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology 7719 12th Street Paron, Arkansas 72122, USA (501) 821-1147; FAX (501) 821-1146 E-mail: [email protected]

Springer New York: 233 Spring Street, New York, NY 10013, USA Heidelberg: Postfach 10 52 80, 69042 Heidelberg, Germany Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 62-18595 ISSN 0179-5953 Printed on acid-free paper. © 2008 Springer Science + Business Media, LLC All rights reserved. This work may not be translated or copied in whole or in part without the written permission of the publisher (Springer Science + Business Media, LLC, 233 Spring Street, New York, NY 10013, USA), except for brief excerpts in connection with reviews or scholarly analysis. Use in connection with any form of information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed is forbidden. The use in this publication of trade names, trademarks, service marks, and similar terms, even if they are not identified as such, is not to be taken as an expression of opinion as to whether or not they are subject to proprietary rights.

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Foreword

International concern in scientific, industrial, and governmental communities over traces of xenobiotics in foods and in both abiotic and biotic environments has justified the present triumvirate of specialized publications in this field: comprehensive reviews, rapidly published research papers and progress reports, and archival documentations. These three international publications are integrated and scheduled to provide the coherency essential for nonduplicative and current progress in a field as dynamic and complex as environmental contamination and toxicology. This series is reserved exclusively for the diversified literature on “toxic” chemicals in our food, our feeds, our hom