Organochlorines and heavy metals in wild caught food as a potential human health risk to the indigenous MĀori population of South Canterbury, New Zealand

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 409, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 2029-2039

  Stewart, Michael ^a   Phillips, Ngaire R ^a   Olsen, Greg ^a   Hickey, Christopher W ^a   Tipa, Gail ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF WATER AND ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

^b Tipa and Associates   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Fish; Heavy metals; Human health; M ori; New Zealand; Organochlorines; Risk assessment; Watercress

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC CONTAMINANTS; ASSESSMENT PROCEDURE; BROWN TROUTS; CANCER RISK; CANCER RISK ASSESSMENTS; CONTAMINANTS OF CONCERNS; DETECTION LIMITS; ECONOMIC IMPORTANCE; FOOD CHAIN; HUMAN HEALTH; HUMAN HEALTH RISKS; LOW CONSUMPTION; MERCURY CONCENTRATIONS; NEW ZEALAND; ORGANOCHLORINE PESTICIDES; ORGANOCHLORINES; POTENTIAL HEALTH; SALMO TRUTTA; WATERCRESS; WET WEIGHT;

ARSENIC; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); DISEASES; HEALTH; HEALTH RISKS; HEAVY WATER; INSECTICIDES; MERCURY (METAL); METALS; ORGANIC POLLUTANTS; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS; RATING; RISK ASSESSMENT;

CHEMICAL CONTAMINATION;

1,1 DICHLORO 2,2 BIS(4 CHLOROPHENYL)ETHYLENE; ARSENIC; CHLORDANE; DIELDRIN; HEAVY METAL; MERCURY; ORGANOCHLORINE DERIVATIVE; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL;

ARSENIC; BIOACCUMULATION; CANCER; CONSUMPTION BEHAVIOR; FOOD CHAIN; HEALTH RISK; HEAVY METAL; INDIGENOUS POPULATION; ORGANOCHLORINE; PUBLIC HEALTH; RISK ASSESSMENT;

ARTICLE; BIOACCUMULATION; BLACK FLOUNDER; BROWN TROUT; CANCER RISK; EEL; FLATFISH; FOOD CONTAMINATION; FOOD INTAKE; HEALTH HAZARD; HUMAN; MAORI; NEW ZEALAND; NONHUMAN; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; WATERCRESS; WEIGHT;

ANGUILLA; ANIMALS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FLOUNDER; FOOD CHAIN; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; HUMANS; HYDROCARBONS, CHLORINATED; METALS, HEAVY; NASTURTIUM; NEW ZEALAND; OCEANIC ANCESTRY GROUP; PESTICIDES; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEAWATER; TROUT; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

CANTERBURY [SOUTH ISLAND]; NEW ZEALAND; SOUTH ISLAND;

ANGUILLA SP.; NASTURTIUM OFFICINALE; PLEURONECTOIDEI; RHOMBOSOLEA RETIARIA; SALMO TRUTTA; SALMONIDAE;

EID: 79953326912     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2011.02.028     Document Type: Article

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