1. Field investigation to determine the environmental source of PCBs in a pig farm
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Mélanie Picherot, A. Vénisseau, Aline Brosseaud, Vincent Vaccher, Philippe Marchand, Gaud Dervilly-Pinel, Bruno Le Bizec, Elodie Lesquin, Laboratoire d'étude des Résidus et Contaminants dans les Aliments (LABERCA), Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA)-Ecole Nationale Vétérinaire, Agroalimentaire et de l'alimentation Nantes-Atlantique (ONIRIS), Direction Générale de l'Alimentation (DGAL), and LUNAM Université [Nantes Angers Le Mans]
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Farms ,Swine ,GC-HRMS ,[SDV]Life Sciences [q-bio] ,Food Contamination ,Investigations ,010501 environmental sciences ,Reference laboratory ,Dioxins ,01 natural sciences ,Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry ,Analytical Chemistry ,0404 agricultural biotechnology ,Farm level ,DL-PCB ,Case report ,Animals ,Soil Pollutants ,Pork ,Paints ,Hrgc hrms ,0105 earth and related environmental sciences ,Monitoring Plan ,2. Zero hunger ,Waste management ,04 agricultural and veterinary sciences ,General Medicine ,Contamination ,Animal Feed ,Polychlorinated Biphenyls ,040401 food science ,Red Meat ,Environmental chemistry ,Environmental science ,Environmental Pollutants ,Female ,France ,Food Science - Abstract
International audience; During a national monitoring plan, a pork fat sample was declared non-compliant for the sum of dioxins and PCB-DL (EU regulation). The National Reference Laboratory together with competent authorities conducted extended investigations to determine rapidly the contamination source at the farm level. A range of samples (n=129), representative of potential contamination sources, was selected for further characterization (fat, feed, materials, dust, soil) and was analyzed for PCDD/Fs and DL-PCBs by GC-HRMS. A hot spot was localized in the farm, which corresponded to a pre-feed storage tank, the paints of which presented huge DL-PCB concentrations (> 1x10(6) pg g(-1)), responsible for the contamination. The present case report describes a new source of PCB contamination, previously undescribed.
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- 2018
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