LONG-TERM MONITORING (1972-2006) OF PCBs AND DDTs IN MUSSELS FROM THE EASTERN ADRIATIC COASTAL WATERS (CROSBI ID 542768)
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Podaci o odgovornosti
Picer, Mladen ; Šilipetar Picer, Nevenka ; Čalić, Violeta ; Hodak-Kobasić Vedranka.
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LONG-TERM MONITORING (1972-2006) OF PCBs AND DDTs IN MUSSELS FROM THE EASTERN ADRIATIC COASTAL WATERS
The Adriatic Sea is an elongated basin (139 000 km2) of the northern Mediterranean, extending for 800 km into the heartland of the European continent. Croatian coastal karst region warrants particular attention because of its high ecological sensitivity and the unfortunate unscrupulous destruction during the warfare of 1991– 19951. . Bioaccumulation of chemicals in biota may be a prerequisite for adverse effects on ecosystems. Mussels have been used in many parts of the world as indicator organisms because of their ability to sequester lipophilic contaminants such as PCBs and DDTs.. The aim of this paper is to describe the levels and trends of DDT's and PCBs in mussels collected from the Adriatic eastern coastal waters monitored over a thirty years period. All these samples were analyzed from a single analytical group (mostly by the same analyst), using a uniform methodology which was successfully intercalibrated during numerous international intercalibration exercises, where for detection of pollutants ECD gas chromatography were used with packet and/or capillary columns . As is seen from global report of UN, UNEP, G.E.F. Regionally Based Assessment of Persistent Toxic Substances5, such a long term monitoring of persistent organic toxicants are very scarce and for mussels practically unique all over the World.
PCB; DDT; Adriatic sea; mussels; long term monitoring
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Podaci o prilogu
2009-2012.
2008.
objavljeno
Podaci o matičnoj publikaciji
Proceedings of 28th International Symposium on Halogenated Environmental Organic Pollutants and POPs - DIOXIN.Organohalogen compounds 70
Birmingham:
Podaci o skupu
Dioxin 2008
poster
17.08.2008-23.08.2008
Birmingham, Ujedinjeno Kraljevstvo