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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 May 7.
Published in final edited form as: Environ Sci Technol. 2019 Apr 18;53(9):5187–5194. doi: 10.1021/acs.est.9b01087

Table 1.

PCB congeners in colorants.

Colorant Name Color (CI Index)40 Top 10 PCBs ranked highest to lowest mass Concentration (ng ∑PCBs g−1 colorant) Year Purchased
D Phthalo Green (PG 7) 209, 206, 6, 208, 207, 8, 12/13, 11, 198/199, 4 284 2018
E Phthalo Blue (PB 15:2) 209, 26/29, 5, 12/13, 4, 206, 9, 3, 10, 175 0.69 2018
AXX Organic Yellow (Blend) 8, 4, 6, 184, 182, 188, 17, 181, 209, 12/13 13.3 2018
AGF Organic Yellow (PY 97) 52, 90/101/113, 92, 36, 38, 5, 79, 120, 127, 165 3.82 2018
T Medium Yellow (Blend) 4, 11, 8, 6, 1, 209, 3, 10, 12/13, 5 3.01 2018
ORF Organic Orange (PO 73) 3, 11, 15, 12/13, 8, 35, 4, 6, 5, 38 5.04 2018
REE Organic Red (PR 122) 12/13, 15, 8, 31, 3, 6, 4, 25, 39, 146 11.7 2018
DD Maroon 2, 1, 3, 146, 147/149, 153/168, 8, 118, 187, 6 9.82–16 2009
VV White 25, 6, 133, 131, 146, 72, 94, 98, 142 0.03 2009