PCBs, PCDD/Fs, and organochlorine pesticides in farmed Atlantic salmon from Maine, Eastern Canada, and Norway, and wild salmon from Alaska

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 40, Issue 17, 2006, Pages 5347-5354

  Shaw, Susan D ^a   Brenner, Diane ^a   Berger, Michelle L ^a   Carpenter, David O ^b   Hong, Chia Swee ^b   Kannan, Kurunthachalam ^b  

^a Marine Environmental Research Institute   (United States)

^b STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHLORINATED PESTICIDES; POLYCHLORINATED DIBENZO-P-DIOXINS (PCDD); SALMONS;

BIODIVERSITY; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; LIPIDS; PESTICIDES; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS;

POLLUTION DETECTION;

LIPID; ORGANOCHLORINE PESTICIDE; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL DERIVATIVE; POLYCHLORINATED DIBENZODIOXIN; POLYCHLORINATED DIBENZOFURAN;

BIODIVERSITY; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; LIPIDS; PESTICIDES; POLLUTION DETECTION; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS;

ORGANOCHLORINE; PCB; PCDD; PCDF; SALMONID; SAMPLING;

ARTICLE; ATLANTIC SALMON; CANADA; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONSUMER; HEALTH HAZARD; NONHUMAN; NORWAY; UNITED STATES;

ALASKA; ANIMALS; BENZOFURANS; CANADA; MAINE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NORWAY; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS; SALMON; SKIN; TETRACHLORODIBENZODIOXIN;

ALASKA; CANADA; EURASIA; EUROPE; MAINE; NORTH AMERICA; NORTHERN EUROPE; NORWAY; SCANDINAVIA; UNITED STATES;

ONCORHYNCHUS TSHAWYTSCHA; SALMO SALAR;

EID: 33748565008     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es061006c     Document Type: Article

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