Levels of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), DDE, and mirex in waterfowl collected in New York State, 1981?1982

Kim, Himi T.; Kim, Kihyun S.; Kim, Jai S.; Stone, Ward B.

doi:10.1007/bf01055756

Cited by 24 publications

(5 citation statements)

References 6 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…The discovery that waterfowl collected throughout New York State were contaminated with high levels of PCBs and pesticide residues (Baker et al, 1976;Kim et al, 1984Kim et al, , 1985 prompted the development of waterfowl consumption advisories which have been issued annually to New York hunters since 1981. In 1987, the state of Wisconsin began to issue consumption advisories warning people to avoid eating certain waterfowl species from sections of several Lake Michigan tributaries.…”

Section: Waterfowl Consumption Guidelinesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Organochlorines and Mercury in Waterfowl Harvested in Canada

Braune

Malone²

2006

Environ Monit Assess

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Samples of breast muscle from 32 species of waterfowl collected from 123 sites across Canada were analyzed for chlorobenzenes (CBz), chlordane-related compounds (CHL), hexachlorocyclohexanes (HCH), DDT, mirex, dieldrin, PCBs and mercury. SigmaDDT, SigmaCBz and SigmaPCB were the compounds most frequently found above trace levels. SigmaHCH and SigmaMirex were detected the least often. Mercury was detected in all of the mergansers, over 50% of dabbling, bay and sea ducks, and in less than 2% of the geese analysed. The highest levels of contaminants were generally found in birds feeding at higher trophic levels such as sea ducks and mergansers. With the exception of a few samples of mergansers and long-tailed ducks from eastern Canada, which contained SigmaPCB concentrations of 1.0-2.4 mg kg(-1), SigmaPCB levels were less than 1 mg kg(-1) wet weight. Only one merganser from eastern Canada had a SigmaDDT concentration (2.6 mg kg(-1) ww) which was greater than 1 mg kg(-1) ww. The highest SigmaCHL (0.10 mg kg(-1) ww) was also found in mergansers from eastern Canada. Levels of total mercury in breast muscle were either low (< 1 mg kg(-1) ww) or below detection limits with the exception of a few samples of mergansers from eastern Canada which contained mercury concentrations of 1.0-1.5 mg kg(-1) ww. Health Canada determined that the organochlorine and mercury levels found in samples of breast muscle of ducks and geese analysed in this study did not pose a health hazard to human consumers and therefore these waterfowl were safe to eat.

show abstract

Section: Waterfowl Consumption Guidelinesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Organochlorines and Mercury in Waterfowl Harvested in Canada

Braune

Malone²

2006

Environ Monit Assess

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…Average mirex levels were 280 pg/kg (ppb) in fat and 2.0 pg/kg in breast muscle (Kim et al, 1985). Mirex was detected at a concentration of > 500 pg/kg (ppb) in 24 of 164 samples of subcutaneous fat of six species of waterfowl (mallard, black duck, scaup, wood duck, bufflehead, and Canada goose) harvested by hunters in (Foley, 1992.…”

Section: Other Environmental Mediamentioning

confidence: 99%

Atsdr Evaluation of Health Effects of Chemicals

et al. 1995

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

This document provides public health officials, physicians, toxicologists, and other interested individuals and groups with an overall perspective of the toxicology of mirex and chlordecone. It contains descriptions and evaluations of toxicological studies and epidemiological investigations and provides conclusions, where possible, on the relevance of toxicity and toxicokinetic data to public health. Additional substances will be profiled in a series of manuscripts to follow.

show abstract

“…Although several studies concerning the environmental impact of PCBs as well as PCB-contaminated sediments, including Hudson River sediments, exists in the literature, these studies mainly address contamination levels in situ and the effects of PCBs on animals such as fish (Field et al 2016;Pinkney et al 2017;Maceina and Sammons 2015), birds (Madden and Skinner 2016;Baker et al 1976;Foley 1992;Kim et al 1984Kim et al , 1985O'Keefe et al 2006), or invertebrates (Cho et al 2004). In contrast, our study examines the effect of sediments on plants.…”

Section: The Effect Of Sediment and Cucurbit Growth On Phytotoxicitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Effects of soil amendment with PCB-contaminated sediment on the growth of two cucurbit species

Urbaniak

Lee

Takazawa

et al. 2019

Environ Sci Pollut Res

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

The aim of the study was to evaluate the influence of the application of increasing proportions (0%, 10%, 25%, 50%, 75%, and 100%) of an admixture of PCB-contaminated Hudson River sediment collected from the Upper Hudson River, near Waterford, Saratoga county (New York, USA) on soil properties, phytotoxicity, and biometric and physiological responses of cucumber (Cucumis sativus L. cv 'Wisconsin SMR 58') and zucchini (Cucurbita pepo L. cv 'Black Beauty') grown as potential phyto-and rhizoremediators. The experiment was performed for 4 weeks in a growth chamber under controlled conditions. Amendment of Hudson River sediment to soil led to a gradual increase in PCB content of the substratum from 13.7 μg/kg (with 10% sediment) to 255 μg/kg (with 100% sediment). Sediment amendment showed no phytotoxic effects during the initial stages, even Lepidium sativum root growth was stimulated; however, this positive response diminished following a 4-week growth period, with the greatest inhibition observed in unplanted soil and zucchini-planted soil. The stimulatory effect remained high for cucumber treatments. The sediment admixture also increased cucurbit fresh biomass as compared to control samples, especially at lower doses of sediment admixture, even though PCB content of the soil amended with sediment increased. Cucurbits' leaf surface area, in turn, demonstrated an increase for zucchini, however only for 50% and 75% sediment admixture, while cucumber showed no changes when lower doses were applied and decrease for 75% and 100% sediment admixture. Chlorophyll a + b decreased significantly in sediment-amended soils, with greater inhibition observed for cucumber than zucchini. Our results suggest that admixture of riverine sediment from relatively less-contaminated locations may be used as soil amendments under controlled conditions; however, further detailed investigation on the fate of pollutants is required, especially in terms of the bioaccumulation and biomagnification properties of PCBs, before contaminated sediment can be applied in an open environment.

show abstract

Levels of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), DDE, and mirex in waterfowl collected in New York State, 1981?1982

Cited by 24 publications

References 6 publications

Organochlorines and Mercury in Waterfowl Harvested in Canada

Organochlorines and Mercury in Waterfowl Harvested in Canada

Atsdr Evaluation of Health Effects of Chemicals

Effects of soil amendment with PCB-contaminated sediment on the growth of two cucurbit species

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About