Chlorinated hydrocarbon contaminants and metabolites in polar bears (Ursus maritimus) from Alaska, Canada, East Greenland, and Svalbard: 1996-2002

• Published in: Science of The Total Environment
• Main Authors: Verreault, Jonathan, Muir, Derek C.G., Norstrom, Ross J., Stirling, Ian, Fisk, Aaron T., Gabrielsen, Geir W., Derocher, Andrew E., Evans, Thomas J., Dietz, Rune, Sonne, Christian, Sandala, Gregory M., Gebbink, Wouter, Riget, Frank F., Born, Erik W., Taylor, Mitch K., Nagy, John, Letcher, Robert J.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Scholarship at UWindsor 2005
• Subjects: Arctic; Canadian arctic; Chlorinated hydrocarbon contaminants; Geographical trends; Metabolites; Polar bears; Temporal comparisons; Ursus maritimus; Svalbard; Canada; Greenland; Nona; East Greenland; Subarctic; Alaska
• Online Access: https://scholar.uwindsor.ca/glierpub/427; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2004.10.031

A suite of chlorinated hydrocarbon contaminants (CHCs) including organochlorine pesticides (OCPs) and by-products, polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), and methyl sulfone (MeSO2) PCB and p,p′- dichlorodiphenyldichloroethylene (p,p′-DDE) metabolites were determined in adipose tissue of 107 adult and sub...