PFAAs in fish and other seafood products from Icelandic waters.

• Published in: Journal of Environmental and Public Health
• Main Authors: Jörundsdóttir, Hrönn, Halldorsson, Thorhallur I, Gunnlaugsdottir, Helga
• Other Authors: Matis, Icelandic Food and Biotech R&D, Vinlandsleid 12, 113 Reykjavik, Iceland. 2Faculty of Food Science & Nutrition, School of Health Science, University of Iceland, Unit of Nutritional Research, Eiríksgötu 29, 101 Reykjavik, Iceland.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2015
• Subjects: Fiskar; Sjávarafurðir; Sjávarmengun; Animals; Chromatography; Liquid; Environmental Monitoring; Fish Products; Fishes; Fluorocarbons; Iceland; Seafood; Tandem Mass Spectrometry; Water Pollutants; Chemical; Gadus morhua; North Atlantic
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/2336/552297; https://doi.org/10.1155/2014/573607

To access publisher's full text version of this article, please click on the hyperlink in Additional Links field or click on the hyperlink at the top of the page marked Files. This article is open access. Perfluorinatedalkyl acids (PFAAs) are of growing concern due to possible health effects on humans. Exposure assessments indicate that fish consumption is one of the major sources of perfluorooctane sulfonate (PFOS) exposure to humans, one of the major PFASs, whereas concerns of overestimation of this exposure source have been raised. Therefore, PFAAs concentrations in fish from the North Atlantic (Icelandic fishing grounds) in the flesh of different fish species were investigated along with more detailed analyses of tissue concentrations in cod (Gadus morhua) and lumpfish (Cyclopterus lumpus). Further, fish feed was investigated as a possible source of PFAAs in aquaculture by examining fish meal as feed ingredient. No PFAAs were detected in the edible part of all fish samples, except for PFOS in pollock (Pollachius virens, 0,05 ng/g wet weight). PFOS was the only PFAA detected in the fish meal samples with the exception of PFOSA in blue whiting (Micromesistius poutassou) meal (0,45 ng/g dry weight (d.w.)), where the PFOS concentration was 1,3-13 ng/g d.w. in the capelin (Mallotus villosus) and mackerel (Scomber scombrus) meal samples. The conclusions of the study are that fish commonly consumed from the Icelandic fishing grounds are unlikely to be an important source of PFAAs exposure. The Ministry for Industries and Innovation, Iceland