Persistent organic pollutants in fish tissue in the mid-continental great rivers of the United States

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 408, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1180-1189

  Blocksom, Karen A ^a   Walters, David M ^a   Jicha, Terri M ^a   Lazorchak, James M ^a   Angradi, Theodore R ^a   Bolgrien, David W ^a  

^a U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

Author keywords

Contamination indicators; Fish homogenates; Persistent organic contaminants; Upper Mississippi River basin

Indexed keywords

CANCER RISK; CULTURAL RESOURCES; DICHLORODIPHENYLTRICHLOROETHANE; ECOLOGICAL CONDITIONS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING AND ASSESSMENT PROGRAMS; FISH CONSUMPTION; FISH HOMOGENATE; FISH TISSUE; GREAT RIVER ECOSYSTEMS; HEXACHLOROBENZENE; LIPID CONTENT; MISSISSIPPI; MISSOURIS; OHIO RIVER; ORGANIC CONTAMINANT; ORGANOCHLORINES; PERSISTENT ORGANIC POLLUTANTS; POLYBROMINATED DIPHENYL ETHERS; RISK VALUE; UPPER MISSISSIPPI; UPPER MISSISSIPPI RIVER BASIN; URBAN AREAS;

CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); CONTAMINATION; ECOSYSTEMS; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENTS; ETHERS; FISH; INSECTICIDES; MEATS; ORGANIC POLLUTANTS; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS; PRINTED CIRCUITS; RISK PERCEPTION; RIVERS; WATERSHEDS;

RIVER POLLUTION;

CHLORDANE; CHLORPHENOTANE; DIELDRIN; HEXACHLOROBENZENE; ORGANOCHLORINE DERIVATIVE; ORGANOCHLORINE PESTICIDE; POLYBROMINATED DIPHENYL ETHER; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL DERIVATIVE;

CHLORDANE; DDT; DIELDRIN; ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FISH; HEALTH RISK; HEXACHLOROBENZENE; LIPID; ORGANIC POLLUTANT; PBDE; PCB; RIVER POLLUTION;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTECOLOGY; CANCER RISK; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTAMINATED FISH; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; GEOGRAPHY; HEALTH HAZARD; LIPID COMPOSITION; MORPHOMETRICS; NONHUMAN; ORGANIC POLLUTION; POLLUTION MONITORING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIVER; RIVER ECOSYSTEM; TISSUE LEVEL; UNITED STATES; URBAN AREA; WATER SAMPLING; WILDLIFE;

ANIMALS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FISHES; HALOGENATED DIPHENYL ETHERS; HYDROCARBONS, CHLORINATED; RISK ASSESSMENT; RIVERS; UNITED STATES; WATER POLLUTANTS;

MISSISSIPPI RIVER; MISSOURI RIVER; OHIO RIVER; UNITED STATES;

PISCES;

EID: 73149102295     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2009.11.040     Document Type: Article

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