Hydroxylated PCB metabolites in nonhatched fulmar eggs from the Faroe Islands

Ambio

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 184-187

  Fängström, Britta ^a   Athanasiadou, Maria ^a   Athanassiadis, Ioannis ^a   Weihe, Pál ^b,c   Bergman, Åke ^a  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

^c FAROESE HOSPITAL SYSTEM   (Faroe Islands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIET; PCB; POLLUTION EXPOSURE;

ATLANTIC ISLANDS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; FAROE ISLANDS; OCEANIC REGIONS; WORLD;

EID: 20644431584     PISSN: 00447447     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1579/0044-7447-34.3.184     Document Type: Article

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29. Acknowledgments: We thank Anna Roos and Mats Hjälmberg from the Contaminant Research Group at the Swedish Museum of Natural History for assistance in preparing the egg samples. The project was supported financially by grants from the EU R&D programme, Anemone (QLK4-CT-2001-00186).
30. First submitted 3 Dec. 2003. Revised manuscript received 16 March 2004. Accepted for publication 19 March 2004