Monitoring of hexabromocyclododecane diastereomers in fish from European freshwaters and estuaries

Environmental Science and Pollution Research

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 772-783

  Rüdel, Heinz ^a   Müller, Josef ^a   Quack, Markus ^b   Klein, Roland ^b  

^a FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND APPLIED ECOLOGY IME   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TRIER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bream; Environmental monitoring; HBCD; Sole; Temporal trends

Indexed keywords

BROMINATED HYDROCARBON; FLAME RETARDANT; FRESH WATER; HEXABROMOCYCLODODECANE; LIPID; SEA WATER;

BIOACCUMULATION; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); CYPRINID; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ESTUARINE ENVIRONMENT; FLATFISH; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MONITORING; MUSCLE; POINT SOURCE; POLYMER; RURAL AREA; TEMPORAL VARIATION; TEXTILE INDUSTRY;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOMETRY; CHEMICAL PHENOMENA; CHEMISTRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CYPRINIFORMES; ELECTROSPRAY MASS SPECTROMETRY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; EUROPE; FLATFISH; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; METHODOLOGY; MUSCLE; STEREOISOMERISM; TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY; TIME; VALIDATION STUDY; WATER POLLUTANT;

ANIMALS; BIOMETRY; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; CYPRINIDAE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; EUROPE; FLAME RETARDANTS; FLATFISHES; FRESH WATER; HYDROCARBONS, BROMINATED; HYDROPHOBIC AND HYDROPHILIC INTERACTIONS; LIPIDS; MUSCLES; SEAWATER; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, ELECTROSPRAY IONIZATION; STEREOISOMERISM; TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY; TIME FACTORS; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

ENGLAND; GERMANY; LAKE BELAU; RHONE RIVER; SCHLESWIG-HOLSTEIN; TEES RIVER; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERSCHELDE;

HYPEROGLYPHE POROSA;

EID: 84857505848     PISSN: 09441344     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11356-011-0604-3     Document Type: Article

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