The use of a non-lethal tool for evaluating toxicological hazard of organochlorine contaminants in Mediterranean cetaceans: new data 10 years after the first paper published in MPB

• Published in: Marine Pollution Bulletin
• Main Authors: FOSSI, M. C., MARSILI, L., NERI, G., NATOLI, A., POLITI, E., PANIGADA, S.
• Other Authors: Fossi, M. C., Marsili, L., Neri, G., Natoli, A., Politi, E., Panigada, S.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2003
• Subjects: organochlorine; endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs); Mediterranean sea; marine mammal; non-lethal biomarker; BPMO; Fossi; Balaenoptera physalus
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11365/41038; https://doi.org/10.1016/S0025-326X(03)00113-9

In the Mediterranean Sea, top predators, and particularly cetacean odontocetes, accumulate high concentrations of organochlorine contaminants and toxic metals, incurring high toxicological risk. In this paper we investigate the use of the skin biopsies as a non-lethal tool for evaluating toxicologic...