210Po and 210Pb activity concentrations in Mytilus galloprovincialis from Croatian Adriatic coast with the related dose assessment to the coastal population

Polonium-210 in marine mussels (bivalve molluscs) inhabiting the southern coast of India

“…The 210 Po activity concentration obtained in the present study was comparable to values reported for Mytilid mussels from Turkish coast of Aegean Sea (34e1855 Bq kg -1 dry) and from Croatian Adriatic coast (22.1e207 Bq kg -1 fresh) (Ak€ ozcan and Uǧur, 2013; Rozmaric et al, 2012). It was found that the smaller sized mussels with a shell length of 1e4 cm recorded more polonium collected from Didim Bay.…”

Delineation of radionuclide bioaccumulation in golden horn, Istanbul, using bioindicator mussel passive monitoring and transplantation

“…Ac cord ing to this equa tion, the av er age and range values of the an nual ef fec tive in ges tion dose were cal culated to be 11.96 µSv and 2.23-34.45 µSv, re spectively. These val ues are mostly con sis tent with the val ues (16.5-92 µSv, 0.2-3.3 µSv, and 53-497 µSv) re - ported in pre vi ous stud ies for the Cen tral Adri atic Sea of It aly, East ern Adri atic coast of Croatia and en tire Turk ish coast, re spec tively, [12,22,32]. Thus, it is seen that there is no risk to pub lic health in terms of 210 Po through con sump tion of mus sels.…”

“…The av er age ra tio value of 210 Po/ 210 Pb was cal culated to be 10.26 for res i dent mus sels, which is in agree ment with the ra tio lev els (6.4-11.5, 14, 26, 14 and 10.1, re spec tively) of sim i lar stud ies [22, 23, 27, 210 Po ac cu mu lates more ef fi ciently com pared to 210 Pb in ma rine or gan isms since po lo nium tends to bind tightly to the or ganic mate ri als of liv ing or gan isms, al though 210 Pb is in clined more to ward in or ganic struc tures [5,27,31,32]. The ra tio val ues also might clar ify that not only is 210 Po pres ent from in-situ 238 U de cay se ries but is also present due to the de cay of 210 Pb.…”

Material Flow Analysis in a cooked mussel processing industry

“…Research has typically been focused on mussel culture. Consequently, a wide variety of works are available about mussel growing patterns and conditions (Cusson and Bourget, 2005;Filgueira et al, 2007;Gangnery et al, 2004;Gazi, 2012), bio-deposits on mussel breeding areas (Alonso-Pérez et al, 2010;Commito et al, 2008;Fréchette, 2012;McKindsey et al, 2009) or bioaccumulation of pollutants on growing mussels (Fernández et al, 2012;Hervé-Fernández et al, 2010;Rožmarić et al, 2012;Suárez et al, 2012;Zaldívar et al, 2011), among others. Most of the few works concerning the mussel processing industry focus on the exploitation of mussel cooking juices, to produce concentrated juices (Cros et al, 2004(Cros et al, , 2005 or to recover valuable compounds (Chan et al, 2007;Guerra et al, 2005;Pintado et al, 1997), although there is also some research on mussel shell exploitation (Barros et al, 2009a;Paz-Ferreiro et al, 2012).…”