First assessment of persistent organic pollutant contamination in blubber of Chilean blue whales from Isla de Chiloé southern Chile

• Published in: Science of The Total Environment
• Main Authors: Muñoz-Arnanz, Juan, Chirife, A. D., Galletti Vernazzani, B., Cabrera, E., Sironi, M., Millán, Javier, Attard, C. R. M., Jiménez, Begoña
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Elsevier 2019
• Subjects: Baleen whales; Southern Hemisphere; PCBs; PBDEs; DDTs; POPs; Pacific; Argentina; Ballenas; Alicia; Jiménez; Chiloé; baleen whales; Blue whale
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10261/175034; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2018.09.070

Persistent organic pollutants (POPs) were assessed for the first time in blue whales from the South Pacific Ocean. Concentrations of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs), hexachlorobenzene (HCB) and dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane and its main metabolites (DDTs),...