Replication Data for: Emerging and legacy contaminants in common minke whale from the Barents sea ...

• Main Author: Andvik, Clare
• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: DataverseNO 2024
• Subjects: Balaenoptera acutorostrata; Barents Sea; minke whale
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.18710/pxtkds; https://dataverse.no/citation?persistentId=doi:10.18710/PXTKDS

Persistent organic pollutants (POPs), including brominated flame retardants (BFRs), perfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) and metals, can accumulate in marine mammals and be transferred to offspring. In this study, we analyzed 64 lipophilic POPs, including four emerging BFRs, in the blubber, liver and muscle of 17 adult common minke whales (Balaenoptera acutorostrata) from the Barents Sea to investigate occurrence and tissue partitioning. In addition, the placental transfer concentration ratios of 14 PFAS and 17 metals were quantified in the muscle of nine female-fetus pairs to investigate placental transfer. Legacy lipophilic POPs were the dominating compound group in every tissue, and we observed generally lower levels compared to previous studies from 1992 to 2001. We detected the emerging BFRs hexabromobenzene (HBB) and pentabromotoluene (PBT), but in low levels compared to the legacy POPs. We detected nine PFAS, and levels of perfluorooctane sulfonate (PFOS) were higher than detected from the same population ...