Mercury and organochlorine exposure from fish consumption in Hong Kong

Dickman, Mike; Leung, Kmy

doi:10.1016/s0045-6535(98)00006-x

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“…As demonstrated previously, food consumption, especially fish consumption is a major pathway for human exposure to PFASs (Falandysz et al, 2006;Ericson et al, 2008;Fromme et al, 2009;Berger et Assuming an average human body weight of 60 kg and muscle being the only consumed tissue, the amount of fish consumption is about 60 kg per person per year in Hong Kong (Dickman and Leung, 1998). Taking geographical location and eating habits of life into account, the same fish consumption rate was used for the calculation in this region.…”

Section: Risk Assessment Through Fish Consumptionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Bioaccumulation and risk assessment of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances in wild freshwater fish from rivers in the Pearl River Delta region, South China

Pan

Zhao

Liu

et al. 2014

Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety

118

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Section: Risk Assessment Through Fish Consumptionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Bioaccumulation and risk assessment of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances in wild freshwater fish from rivers in the Pearl River Delta region, South China

Pan

Zhao

Liu

et al. 2014

Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety

118

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“…Ionic species are readily available to biota for uptake and cause deleterious changes at various levels of organization of the animals. Amongst animals, fishes are the inhabitants that cannot escape from the detrimental influence of these pollutants (Clarkson, 1998;Dickman and Leung, 1998;Olaifa et al, 2004). Fishes are widely used to evaluate the health of aquatic ecosystems; hence, act as bioindicators.…”

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Assessment of heavy metals (Cu, Ni, Fe, Co, Mn, Cr, Zn) in rivulet water, their accumulations and alterations in hematology of fish Channa punctatus

Javed¹,

Usmani²

2014

Afr. J. Biotechnol.

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The present study was conducted to examine the contamination of rivulet situated at Kasimpur, Aligarh .dw) was highest in all the organs. The accumulation of Fe, Zn, and Mn, observed in the tissues were above the values recommended by FAO/WHO. Abnormalities in hematological parameters of exposed C. punctatus were also observed. The total RBC count (-51.39%) showed decline over control. Therefore, fall in Hb (-36.98%) and oxygen carrying capacity (37.00%) was also observed over control. On the contrary, the total WBC count (+25.43%) increased over control.

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“…In Japan, because of the high consumption of fish, the government has recommended that fish with mercury level of 0.3mg/kg (wet weight) or over should not be sold (Dickman and Leung, 1998). The US FDA currently stipulated an action level of 1.0 mg/kg for methyl mercury in the edible portion of fish pending when all new data are evaluated (FDA, 2000).…”

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Heavy metal contamination in canned fish marketed in Ghana

Boadi¹,

Twumasi²

2011

AJSIR

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The concentrations of Pb, Zn, Fe, Cd, Mn and Hg in 46 canned fish samples of nine different brands purchased within Kumasi in the Ashanti Region of Ghana were determined using the Flame Atomic Absorption Spectrophotometer for Pb, Zn, Fe, Cd and Mn and direct mercury analyzer (DMA) for Hg. The ranges obtained for the elements analyzed in µg/g (wet weight) are as follows: Pb (0.058 -0.168), Zn (0.010 -0.370), Hg (0.088 -0.410), Mn (0.001 -0.057), Fe(0.990 -32.607) and Cd, below detection limit in all the samples. The fish samples had Hg levels below the European dietary limit of 0.5 µg/g. Zinc levels were generally below the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) recommended limit of 40 µg/g. The concentration of lead in the canned fish was also below the MAFF guidelines of 2.0 µg/g. Also, based on the United States Environmental Protection Agency (US EPA) health criteria for carcinogens, there are no health risks associated with Pb concentrations in canned fishes analyzed. The result of the one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) conducted on the data suggested no significant variations (P>0:05) in the concentrations of the metals in the same brands of canned fishes.

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Mercury and organochlorine exposure from fish consumption in Hong Kong

Cited by 116 publications

References 12 publications

Bioaccumulation and risk assessment of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances in wild freshwater fish from rivers in the Pearl River Delta region, South China

Bioaccumulation and risk assessment of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances in wild freshwater fish from rivers in the Pearl River Delta region, South China

Assessment of heavy metals (Cu, Ni, Fe, Co, Mn, Cr, Zn) in rivulet water, their accumulations and alterations in hematology of fish Channa punctatus

Heavy metal contamination in canned fish marketed in Ghana

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