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Detection of cocaine in the airborne particles of the Italian cities Rome and Taranto

✍ Scribed by Angelo Cecinato; Catia Balducci

Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
2007
Tongue
English
Weight
434 KB
Volume
30
Category
Article
ISSN
1615-9306

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Abstract

Cocaine was first detected in the air of two Italian cities, Rome and Taranto, where it reached concentrations sometimes exceeding 100 pg/m^3^, by HRGC–MS analysis of carbonaceous aerosol samples. By contrast, the drug was virtually absent in Algiers (Algeria). In Italy, atmospheric concentrations of cocaine were, on average, similar to those of other toxic pollutants like polychlorobiphenyls or nitrated polynuclear aromatic hydrocarbons, and higher than those of polychlorodibenzo‐p‐dioxins/polychlorodibenzofurans. The cocaine concentrations seemed to correlate with regional consumption of the drug in Rome and Taranto. By contrast, it correlated neither with nicotine or caffeine, nor with benzo[a]pyrene, the sole organic compound associated with aerosols that is quoted according to Italian legislation.

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