Aquaculture feed Dumping site Fish Organochlorines Polybrominated diphenyl ethers Biodiversity
Issue Date:
2006
Publisher:
Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry
Citation:
Volume: 25, Issue: 10, Page : 2700-2708
Abstract:
Commercial feeds for aquaculture and catfish samples were collected from the Mekong River
Delta, Vietnam, for determination of polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs) and selected persistent
organochlorines, including polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), DDT and its metabolites (DDTs), chlordanerelated
compounds (CHLs), hexachlorocyclohexane isomers (HCHs), and hexachlorobenzene (HCB). The
most abundant contaminants were DDTs, with concentrations ranging from 10 to 700 ng/g lipid weight,
followed by PCBs (1.0-80 ng/g), CHLs
