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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Jan 7.
Published in final edited form as: Environ Sci (Ruse). 2013;1(1):33–52. doi: 10.12988/es.2013.13004

Table 2.

Reduction in “contaminant” PCB congeners in spiked garden soil after 96 days.

IUPAC PCB Congener Decrease in Spiked Unplanted System Decrease in Spiked Planted System
3 22.2% 90.2%
4 5.4% 100.0%
6 6.6% 100.0%
8 12.5% 100.0%
12 *,13 23.6% 80.2%
15 38.8% 100.0%
16 19.7% 100.0%
17 11.3% 100.0%
18,*30 14.2% 100.0%
19 13.9% 100.0%
20,*28 27.5% 100.0%
21,*33 17.0% 98.9%
23 18.4% 81.5%
24 22.7% 100.0%
31 19.4% 100.0%
32 100.0% 100.0%
35 28.2% 70.9%
37 19.7% 87.9%
52 0.1% 14.8%
55 100.0% 100.0%
61*,70,74,76 33.5% 100.0%
66 6.7% 100.0%
77 (Spike) 2.8% 17.2%