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Human exposure to brominated flame retardants through the consumption of fish and shellfish in Tarragona County (Catalonia, Spain)
Human exposure to brominated flame retardants through the consumption of fish and shellfish in Tarragona County (Catalonia, Spain)
- Source :
- Food and Chemical Toxicology. 104:48-56
- Publication Year :
- 2017
- Publisher :
- Elsevier BV, 2017.
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Abstract
- The concentrations of 19 brominated flame retardants (BFRs) (8 polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs), 8 methoxylated PBDEs (MeO-PBDEs) and 3 emerging flame retardants) were determined in 10 species of fish and shellfish widely consumed in Tarragona County (Catalonia, Spain), by pressurized liquid extraction followed by gas chromatography coupled to tandem mass spectrometry. A higher occurrence of PBDEs was found in all the analyzed samples, while MeO-PBDEs were only detected in a few ones and the levels of emerging pollutants were relatively low. In contrast, hexabromobenzene was found in almost all samples at concentrations ranging between non detected and 0.2 ng g−1 wet weight (w.w.). Salmon, sole, hake, cod and tuna showed the highest concentrations of ΣPBDEs (>0.8 ng g−1 w.w.), while mussel was the species with the highest level of MeO-PBDEs (1.5 ng g−1 w.w.). The dietary exposure of BFRs through consumption of these 10 species of fish and shellfish by the population of Tarragona County was estimated for different subpopulations, classified according to age and gender. Furthermore, calculations were performed in upper-, middle- and lower-bound risk scenarios. According to our data, the current concentrations of BFRs in fish and shellfish suggest no significant health risks for the consumers.
- Subjects :
- Adult
Male
Adolescent
Population
Food Contamination
010501 environmental sciences
Toxicology
01 natural sciences
Mass Spectrometry
Young Adult
chemistry.chemical_compound
0404 agricultural biotechnology
Polybrominated diphenyl ethers
Hake
Hexabromobenzene
Animals
Humans
Child
education
reproductive and urinary physiology
Shellfish
Aged
Flame Retardants
0105 earth and related environmental sciences
Aged, 80 and over
Pollutant
education.field_of_study
Fishes
04 agricultural and veterinary sciences
General Medicine
Mussel
Middle Aged
040401 food science
humanities
Hydrocarbons, Brominated
Europe
Seafood
chemistry
Consumer Product Safety
Environmental chemistry
Environmental science
Female
Tuna
Food Science
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 02786915
- Volume :
- 104
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Food and Chemical Toxicology
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....b8c06f823e0f1d985caadf8d2c123ace
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fct.2016.11.022