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Polychlorobiphenyls in freshwater fish: a new strategy to set maximum contamination limits
- Source :
- Food additives & contaminants. Part A. Chemistry, analysis, control, exposure & risk assessment, Food additives & contaminants. Part A. Chemistry, analysis, control, exposure & risk assessment, Taylor & Francis, 2017, 34 (2), pp.241-247. ⟨10.1080/19440049.2016.1263879⟩, Food Additives & Contaminants: Part A, Food Additives & Contaminants: Part A, 2017, 34 (2), pp.241-247. 〈10.1080/19440049.2016.1263879〉
- Publication Year :
- 2016
- Publisher :
- Informa UK Limited, 2016.
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Abstract
- Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) are persistent organic pollutants accumulating along the food chain, and particularly in fish. Consequently, the European Commission has set regulatory limits for PCBs in both sea- and freshwater fish. Focusing on freshwater fish, the French Agency for Food Environmental and Occupational Health & Safety has developed a method to determine the areas in France where the consumption of locally caught freshwater fish is not recommended due to PCB contamination. To determine these areas of potential health concern, an existing statistical model of the relationship between the consumption of local fish by freshwater anglers and their PCB body burden is linked to a newly determined critical PCB body burden threshold for the population. The main conclusions of this study are that the consumption of two freshwater fish per week from rivers in the areas of France where the median contamination level in fish is greater than 250 ngg(-1) could lead to some exceedance of the critical body burden threshold.
- Subjects :
- 0301 basic medicine
chaîne alimentaire
[SDV]Life Sciences [q-bio]
Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis
Population
Food Contamination
Fresh Water
010501 environmental sciences
Toxicology
pop
01 natural sciences
03 medical and health sciences
Food chain
consumption recommendations
Animals
14. Life underwater
education
0105 earth and related environmental sciences
Pollutant
education.field_of_study
030109 nutrition & dietetics
[ SDV ] Life Sciences [q-bio]
areas of health concern
biology
recommandation alimentaire
Fishes
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
Aquatic animal
General Chemistry
General Medicine
dietary allowance
polychlorobiphényle
Contamination
biology.organism_classification
Polychlorinated Biphenyls
6. Clean water
Fishery
food chain
13. Climate action
Freshwater fish
Regression Analysis
Environmental science
Fish
Food Science
Food contaminant
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 19440057 and 19440049
- Volume :
- 34
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Food Additives & Contaminants: Part A
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....5771458097e622de7a53d3a80053695b