The phrase "as priority pollutants" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in environmental contexts to refer to specific pollutants that are given priority for regulation or monitoring due to their potential impact on health and the environment.
Example: "The report identified several chemicals as priority pollutants that require immediate attention from regulatory agencies."
Alternatives: "as key pollutants" or "as significant pollutants".
Iron phthalocyanines were previously shown to be efficient catalysts for the oxidative degradation of chlorinated phenols considered as priority pollutants.
The US Environmental Protection Agency US EPAA) has listed 16 PAHs as priority pollutants for remediation (Sayara et al. 2011).
Phthalic acid esters have received significant attention over the last few years since they are considered as priority pollutants.
Various chlorophenols, including 2-chlorophenol (2-CP), have been listed as priority pollutants by US Environmental Protection (EPA) (Oh et al. 2011).
Phenols are considered as priority pollutants by the US Environmental Protection Agency EPAandand the European Union (USEPA 1987; Hamdaoui et al. 2005).
P and associated compounds have been listed as priority pollutants by the Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF), Government of India, and USEPA.
However, none of the additives in these products was suspected of synergistic interaction, identified as candidate PBT or vPvB substances [17], or listed in the Water Framework Directive as priority pollutant with an established EQS.
Its application to the analysis of 28 different samples including sea, river, spa, swimming pool, and aquapark waters, enabled the detection of 11 target UV filters at concentration levels up to 540 μg L−1, highlighting the presence of OCR in all analyzed samples and of 2EHMC (proposed to be considered as priority pollutant) in 79% of them.
One phthalate, dibutyl phthalate, is a candidate substance for the priority pollutants list as well as musk xylene, but not the polycyclic musks as identified here [ 34].
Consequently, EDCs have recently been included in the EU-WFD as a group of priority pollutants [34].
Cadmium is classified as one of the priority pollutants which entered water streams through various industrial operations (Pan et al. [2012]).
