Table 1. Countries Used in This Study Grouped According to the United Nations Geoscheme.
| region | countries included | PBDEs | HBCDDs | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Africa | Congo | South Africa | South Africa | 7 studies79−85 | 5 studies79−83 |
| Cote d’Ivoire | Mauritius | Tanzania | |||
| Djibouti | Morocco | Togo | |||
| Egypt | Niger | Tunisia | |||
| Ethiopia | Nigeria | Uganda | |||
| Ghana | Senegal | Zambia | |||
| Kenya | |||||
| Asia | China | Japan | Syria | 53 studies18,81,86−136 | 15 studies81,89,95,132−135,137−144 |
| Georgia | Macao | Taiwan | |||
| India | Philippines | Tajikistan | |||
| Indonesia | Russiaa | Vietnam | |||
| Israel | South Korea | ||||
| Central and South America and Caribbean | Antigua and Barbuda | Chile | Peru | 3 studies73,81,145 | 2 studies73,81 |
| Barbados | Haiti | Suriname | |||
| Brazil | Jamaica | Uruguay | |||
| Europe | Belgium | Greece | Romania | 61 studies1,19,29,30,59,81,146−200 | 25 studies23,59,76,81,146−151,153−159,167,185,189,193,201−204 |
| Bulgaria | Hungary | Russiaa | |||
| Croatia | Ireland | Slovakia | |||
| Cyprus | Italy | Spain | |||
| Czechia | Lithuania | Sweden | |||
| Denmark | Luxembourg | Switzerland | |||
| Faroe Islands | Moldova | Turkey | |||
| Finland | Netherlands | UK | |||
| France | Norway | Ukraine | |||
| Germany | Poland | ||||
| North America | Canada | Mexico | USA | 25 studies17,51,70,77,81,205−222 | 5 studies51,77,78,81,83 |
| Oceania | Australia | Kiribati | Tonga | 7 studies223−228 | 2 studies81,226 |
| Fiji | New Zealand | Tuvalu | |||
a
General samples from Russia were included within the European category. When a study specified a geographic region that was within the Asian part of Russia, it was included in Asia.