A Bayesian assessment of polychlorinated biphenyl contamination of fish communities in the Laurentian Great Lakes

Visha, Ariola; Gandhi, Nilima; Bhavsar, Satyendra P.; Arhonditsis, George B.

doi:10.1016/j.chemosphere.2018.07.070

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“…Furthermore, PCBs, have been reported to be one of the man-made chlorinated compounds gotten from a biphenyl ring with 1 to 10 chlorine atoms attached on each of the phenyl ring resulting in 209 congeners [36] , [37] . PCBs are non-ionizable, largely non-polar, and highly hydrophobic in nature.…”

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Food security and safety concerns in animal production and public health issues in Africa: A perspective of COVID-19 pandemic era

Ejeromedoghene

Tesi

Uyanga

et al. 2020

Ethics, Medicine and Public Health

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The impact of COVID-19 on food security can best be understood from the downturn on agricultural and other related economic activities which were almost brought to a total halt during the pandemic. The restriction of movement/lockdown policy instituted by various governments heavily affected local and national food production as farmers could not go to their farmlands. More so, there was price gouging on raw food items as local farmers were reducing cultivation and harvest because of their safety. The lockdown also affected the transportation of food products from farms and local companies to the market and across inter-state/province borders. Additionally, many human infections traceable to disease outbreak from animal origin suggest a great risk of exposure to infectious agents by live animal farmers. In combating this menace, local food production needs to be encouraged more, while measures should be put in place to facilitate farmer's participation in government regulations on enforcing biosecurity, health standards, disease monitoring, and surveillance practices.

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Section: Food Security and Safety Concerns In Animal Productionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Food security and safety concerns in animal production and public health issues in Africa: A perspective of COVID-19 pandemic era

Ejeromedoghene

Tesi

Uyanga

et al. 2020

Ethics, Medicine and Public Health

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Concentrations of Persistent Organic Pollutants in Benthic and Pelagic Fish from the Fishery Zones in the Far Eastern Seas of Russia

Tsygankov

2023

Earth and Environmental Sciences Library

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Examining Bald Eagle Contaminant Exposure and Reproductive Risk Above and Below Dams on Great Lakes Tributaries

Eakin,

Williams,

Moore

et al. 2024

Arch Environ Contam Toxicol

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Removing lowermost dams can reestablish fish passage on Great Lakes tributaries. This can increase the transfer of contaminants from anadromous fish to piscivorous wildlife upstream; however, concentrations of bioaccumulative contaminants in Great Lakes fish have decreased over the last several decades. We analyzed concentrations of PCBs and the toxic equivalence (TEQs) calculated from PCBs, DDTs, other organochlorine pesticides, and PBDEs in the plasma of bald eagle nestlings above and below lowermost dams on five river systems in Michigan from 1999 to 2013. We examined relationships between contaminants and metrics of reproductive success from 1997 to 2018, including the effects of year and location relative to the lowermost dam. Σ20PCB and p,p’-DDE were important in characterizing differences in contaminant mixtures above and below dams. Concentrations of contaminants were generally greater below dams than above. There were generally greater nest success and more nestlings per nest below dams, but nest location explained little variability (R2 values = 0.03–0.15). Neither Σ20PCB nor p,p’-DDE was a significant predictor of 5-year productivity means by river reach despite concentrations exceeding previously established effects thresholds for healthy bald eagle populations in the Great Lakes (≥ 1 nestling/nest). Our study indicates that dams may continue to reduce the upstream movement of contaminants to bald eagles, but at the measured concentrations, contaminants did not impair productivity and reproductive success as indicated by nestlings per nest. Additional information about population dynamics could clarify population-level effects of contaminants on bald eagles and to what degree these populations are self-sustaining throughout the Great Lakes.

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A Bayesian assessment of polychlorinated biphenyl contamination of fish communities in the Laurentian Great Lakes

Cited by 22 publications

References 73 publications

Food security and safety concerns in animal production and public health issues in Africa: A perspective of COVID-19 pandemic era

Food security and safety concerns in animal production and public health issues in Africa: A perspective of COVID-19 pandemic era

Concentrations of Persistent Organic Pollutants in Benthic and Pelagic Fish from the Fishery Zones in the Far Eastern Seas of Russia

Examining Bald Eagle Contaminant Exposure and Reproductive Risk Above and Below Dams on Great Lakes Tributaries

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