8-Year study on the elimination of PCBs and other organochlorine compounds from eel (Anguilla anguilla) under natural conditions
de Boer, J.; Van der Valk, F.; Kerkhoff, M.A.T.; Hagel, P. (1994). 8-Year study on the elimination of PCBs and other organochlorine compounds from eel (Anguilla anguilla) under natural conditions. Environ. Sci. Technol. 28(13): 2242-2248. https://dx.doi.org/10.1021/es00062a007 In: Environmental Science and Technology. American Chemical Society: Easton. ISSN 0013-936X; e-ISSN 1520-5851, more |  |
| Keywords | Aromatics
Biological phenomena > Accumulation > Bioaccumulation
Chemical compounds > Organic compounds > Hydrocarbons > Unsaturated hydrocarbons > Aromatic hydrocarbons > PCB
Kinetics
Organochlorine compounds
Pollution effects
Polychlorinated biphenyls
Water pollution
Water pollution effects
Anguilla anguilla (Linnaeus, 1758) [WoRMS]
Brackish water; Fresh water |
| Authors | | Top | - de Boer, J., more
- Van der Valk, F.
- Kerkhoff, M.A.T.
- Hagel, P.
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| Abstract | Yellow eels (Anguilla anguilla) containing relatively high concentrations of PCBs, chlorobenzenes, and octachlorostyrene were transferred from the river Rhine (The Netherlands) to a relatively clean lake in order to study elimination of the organochlorine compounds. In contrast with other studies carried out under laboratory conditions, elimination half-lives were found to be in the order of years. For the higher chlorinated CBs, no elimination was observed at all during an 8-year period. |
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