Occurrence and distribution of persistent organic pollutants in the liver and muscle of Atlantic blue sharks: Relevance and health risks

• Published in: Environmental Pollution
• Main Authors: Muñoz-Arnanz, Juan, Bartalini, Alice, Alves, Luis, Lemos, Marco F.L., Novais, Sara C., Jiménez, Begoña
• Other Authors: Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (Portugal), Autoridade de Gestão do Programa Operacional Competitividade e Internacionalização (Portugal) COMPETE2020, Centro de Estudos do Ambiente e do Mar (Portugal) MARE
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2022
• Subjects: POPs Risk assessment Prionace glauca PCBs PBDEs PCDD/Fs TEQ; Pablo; North East Atlantic
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10261/289274; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envpol.2022.119750

Blue shark score among the most abundant, widely distributed and worldwide consumed elasmobranchs. In this work contents of PCBs, PCDD/Fs and PBDEs were studied by means of GC-HRMS in muscle and liver of sixty blue sharks from the North East Atlantic sampled in 2019. Concentrations relatively simila...