Reducing Levels of Mirex, Aroclor 1254, and DDE by Trimming and Cooking Lake Ontario Brown Trout (Salmo Trutta Linnaeus) and Smallmouth Bass (Micropterus Dolomieui Lacepede)

Skea, Jack C.; Simonin, Howard A.; Harris, Enang; Jackling, Samuel J.; Spagnoli, John J.; Symula, John; Colquhoun, James R.

doi:10.1016/s0380-1330(79)72141-1

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“…In general, GL sport fish advisories encourage sport fish consumers to eat fewer of the fish species and sizes known to contain elevated levels of chemical contaminants and recommend the use of cleaning and cooking methods that can substantially reduce the levels of PCBs and other fat-soluble contaminants contained in a fish meal [Anderson et al, unpublished data; (36)(37)(38)]. Since GL advisories were first issued, several studies have documented a decline in GL sport fish consumption (22,39,40).…”

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Health Advisories for Consumers of Great Lakes Sport Fish: Is the Message Being Received?

Tilden¹,

Hanrahan²,

Anderson³

et al. 1997

Environmental Health Perspectives

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JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact support@jstor.org.. The National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) and Brogan & Partners are collaborating with JSTOR to digitize, preserve and extend access to Environmental Health Perspectives. Nationwide, 45 states issue health advisories for sport fish consumers. Chemical contaminants in some Great Lakes (GL) sport fish indude compounds suspected of causing adverse reproductive and developmental effects. Although advisories to reduce consumption of contaminated fish, especially by women, have been issued by GL states (i.e., Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin) since the mid-1970s, little is known about advisory awareness and GL sport fish consumption in the general population. To estimate the prevalence of GL sport fish consumption and health advisory awareness, we conducted a populationbased telephone survey of 8,306 adult residents of the eight GL states. We gathered information concerning respondents' demographic characteristics, fish consumption during the preceding year, and sport fish consumption advisory awareness. The survey response rate was 69%. GL sport fish were eaten during the preceding year by 8.4% [95% confidence interval (CI), 7.6-9.2] of adults in the GL states, approximately 4.7 million persons. Women accounted for 43.9% (CI, 39.4-48.4) of consumers. Although 49.9% of GL sport fish consumers were aware of a health advisory, awareness varied significantly by sex: 58.2% (CI, 51.7-64.7) of males and 39.1% (CI, 32.6-45.6) of females were aware. Using logistic regression, we found awareness associated with male sex [odds ratio (OR) = 2.3; CI, 1.5-3.5), white race (OR = 4.2; CI, 1.9-9.1), college degree (OR = 3.1; CI, 1.3-7.6), and consuming >24 GL sport fish meals/year (OR = 2.4; CI, 1.4-4.3). Only half of GL sport fish consumers reported awareness of a health advisory concerning eating GL sport fish. Awareness was especially low among women, suggesting the need of targeted risk communication programs for female consumers.

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Health Advisories for Consumers of Great Lakes Sport Fish: Is the Message Being Received?

Tilden¹,

Hanrahan²,

Anderson³

et al. 1997

Environmental Health Perspectives

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“…In addition, exposure assumptions consistent with US EPA guidelines were selected to be able to predict the reasonable maximum exposure level (US EPA 1989). For example, different methods of preparing and cooking seafood can result in a differential loss of contaminant residues (Skea et al 1979). This seafood body-burden loss factor includes losses from both preparation (skinning, gutting, filleting) and cooking.…”

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Estimation of Target Hazard Quotients and Potential Health Risks for Metals by Consumption of Seafood in Taiwan

Han

Jeng

Chen

et al. 1998

Archives of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology

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Abstract. The purpose of this paper is to describe the impact of metal pollution on the main seafood and assess the potential health risk from consuming the contaminated seafood in Taiwan. The results of geometric mean (GM) metal concentrations in various seafood showed that the copper, zinc, and arsenic concentrations in oysters were significantly (p Ͻ 0.001) higher than those in the other seafood by about 1,057, 74.3, and 56.2 times, respectively. The green color found in the oysters was due to high GM copper and zinc concentrations of 909 (ranging from 113-2,805) and 1,293 (ranging from 303-3,593) µg/g dry wt, respectively. In addition, using a maximum consumption rate of 139 g/day of oysters for individuals, calculations yield target hazard quotients (daily intake/ reference dose) of below 1 for cadmium and mercury and high values of 1.61, 9.33, and 1.77 for inorganic arsenic, copper, and zinc in adults, respectively. The various lifetime cancer risks for inorganic arsenic (maximum exposed individuals risk ranging from 9.93 ϫ 10 Ϫ6 to 3.11 ϫ 10 Ϫ4

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“…This issue is complex and has been examined in salmon from the Great Lakes as well as in other species (Salama et al 1998; Skea et al 1979; Voiland et al 1991; Zabik et al 1995, 1996; Zabik and Zabik 1999). These studies demonstrate that removal of skin (and associated fat, lateral line, and belly flap) and some cooking methods do, in some cases, reduce contaminant levels in fish.…”

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Risk-Based Consumption Advice for Farmed Atlantic and Wild Pacific Salmon Contaminated with Dioxins and Dioxin-like Compounds

Foran¹,

Carpenter

Hamilton

et al. 2005

Environ Health Perspect

121

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We reported recently that several organic contaminants occurred at elevated concentrations in farmed Atlantic salmon compared with concentrations of the same contaminants in wild Pacific salmon [Hites et al. Science 303:226–229 (2004)]. We also found that polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), toxaphene, dieldrin, dioxins, and polybrominated diphenyl ethers occurred at higher concentrations in European farm-raised salmon than in farmed salmon from North and South America. Health risks (based on a quantitative cancer risk assessment) associated with consumption of farmed salmon contaminated with PCBs, toxaphene, and dieldrin were higher than risks associated with exposure to the same contaminants in wild salmon. Here we present information on cancer and noncancer health risks of exposure to dioxins in farmed and wild salmon. The analysis is based on a tolerable intake level for dioxin-like compounds established by the World Health Organization and on risk estimates for human exposure to dioxins developed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Consumption of farmed salmon at relatively low frequencies results in elevated exposure to dioxins and dioxin-like compounds with commensurate elevation in estimates of health risk.

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Reducing Levels of Mirex, Aroclor 1254, and DDE by Trimming and Cooking Lake Ontario Brown Trout (Salmo Trutta Linnaeus) and Smallmouth Bass (Micropterus Dolomieui Lacepede)

Cited by 26 publications

References 3 publications

Health Advisories for Consumers of Great Lakes Sport Fish: Is the Message Being Received?

Health Advisories for Consumers of Great Lakes Sport Fish: Is the Message Being Received?

Estimation of Target Hazard Quotients and Potential Health Risks for Metals by Consumption of Seafood in Taiwan

Risk-Based Consumption Advice for Farmed Atlantic and Wild Pacific Salmon Contaminated with Dioxins and Dioxin-like Compounds

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