A Nutritional-toxicological assessment of antarctic krill oil versus fish oil dietary supplements

Nutrients

Volumn 6, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 3382-3402

  Nash, Susan M Bengtson ^a   Schlabach, Martin ^b   Nichols, Peter D ^c  

^a GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE FOR AIR RESEARCH   (Norway)

^c CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Antarctic krill oil; Dietary supplements; Long chain omega 3 polyunsaturated fatty acids; Persistent organic pollutants

Indexed keywords

CAMPHECLOR; CHLORDANE; CHLOROBENZENE; DIBENZODIOXIN DERIVATIVE; DOCOSAHEXAENOIC ACID; ENDOSULFAN; FISH OIL; ICOSAPENTAENOIC ACID; OCTACHLORODIBENZO PARA DIOXIN; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; WATER POLLUTANT;

ANIMAL PRODUCT; ANTARCTIC KRILL OIL; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EXTRACTION; FATTY ACID ANALYSIS; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; GEL PERMEATION CHROMATOGRAPHY; LIMIT OF DETECTION; LIPID EXTRACTION; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NUTRITION; NUTRITIONAL ASSESSMENT; POLLUTANT; QUALITY CONTROL; SCORING SYSTEM; TOLERABLE DAILY INTAKE; TOXICITY; TOXICITY EQUIVALENT FACTOR; TOXICITY TESTING; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION; ANALYSIS; ANIMAL; ANTARCTICA; AUSTRALIA; CHEMISTRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; FOOD CONTAMINATION; HUMAN; KRILL; NUTRITIONAL VALUE; WATER POLLUTANT;

ANIMALS; ANTARCTIC REGIONS; AUSTRALIA; DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS; DOCOSAHEXAENOIC ACIDS; EICOSAPENTAENOIC ACID; EUPHAUSIACEA; FISH OILS; FOOD CONTAMINATION; HUMANS; NUTRITIVE VALUE; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

EID: 84906830538     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20726643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/nu6093382     Document Type: Article

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