Multimedia Emissions Inventory of Polychlorinated Biphenyls for the U.S. Great Lakes States

Аннотация

Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) were commercially manufactured in the United States beginning in 1929. They are also byproducts of other processes such as waste combustion. The principal producer of PCBs in the United States was Monsanto Industrial Chemicals Company, which made the products under the registered trademark of Aroclor and produced 700,000 t of PCBs from 1929 to 1977, with approximately 75,000 t exported from the United States.