Polychlorinated biphenyl and organochlorine pesticide contamination signatures in deep-sea fish from the Mediterranean Sea

Environmental Research

Volumn 109, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 851-856

  Storelli, M M ^a   Losada, S ^b,c   Marcotrigiano, G O ^a   Roosens, L ^b   Barone, G ^a   Neels, H ^b   Covaci, A ^b,d  

^a SP Process spa   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^d Biochemistry and Toxicology   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Deep sea fish; Hexaclorobenzene; Organochlorine pesticides; PCB TEQs; Polychlorinated biphenyls

Indexed keywords

CHLORPHENOTANE; DIOXIN; HEXACHLOROBENZENE; ORGANOCHLORINE PESTICIDE; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL;

BIOACCUMULATION; DEEP SEA; FISH; MARINE POLLUTION; ORGANOCHLORINE; PCB; PESTICIDE;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ECOTOXICOLOGY; FISH; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; LIVER; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; WATER POLLUTANT; WATER POLLUTION;

ANIMALS; GADIFORMES; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY-MASS SPECTROMETRY; HYDROCARBONS, CHLORINATED; LIVER; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

ADRIATIC SEA; MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

CAELORINCHUS CAELORHINCUS; TRACHYRINCUS SCABRUS;

EID: 69849109441     PISSN: 00139351     EISSN: 10960953     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envres.2009.07.008     Document Type: Article

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