PMID- 10230048
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 19990603
LR  - 20190905
IS  - 0045-6535 (Print)
IS  - 0045-6535 (Linking)
VI  - 38
IP  - 13
DP  - 1999 Jun
TI  - Review on persistent organic pollutants in the environment of Greenland and Faroe 
      Islands.
PG  - 3075-93
AB  - The literature concerning persistent organic pollutants (POPs) in the environment 
      of Greenland and the Faroe Islands covering the period up to 1995 has been 
      revisited. It is difficult to compare data from earlier studies with those from 
      more recent investigations. Thus as the former quantified the content of CBs by 
      comparison to a technical mixture of CBs (e.g. Aroclor 1254), the latter analyses 
      typically are quantified on a single congener level. Single CB congeners have in 
      some cases been determined, but the results were subsequently expressed as total 
      PCB related to an Aroclor standard. For studies based on single CB congener 
      determinations, the highest levels are reported for porpoise blubber from 
      Greenland (700-4500 micrograms/kg wet weight), the conclusion, however being 
      based on two determinations only. In Greenlandic seal blubber and peregrine 
      falcon plasma equal levels of CBs (130-750 micrograms/kg ww) and of DDTs (150-860 
      micrograms/kg ww) were found. Levels of CBs and DDTs in fish liver were found to 
      be around 40-75 micrograms/kg ww. In sediment samples the CBs were almost all 
      below the detection limit (< 0.02-0.1 microgram/kg dry weight), and thereby being 
      the matrix with the lowest CBs concentration levels. Earlier data based on 
      Aroclor standards showed DDT levels in Greenlandic whale blubber in the range of 
      2700-4100 micrograms/kg ww and PCB levels of 3700 micrograms/kg-5400 
      micrograms/kg ww. DDT levels for seal blubber were at the same level (2700-4500 
      micrograms/kg ww) whereas the PCB level was lower (900-3900 micrograms/kg ww). 
      The PCB level corresponds to the level found in human adipose tissue determined 
      with a similar quantification technique. The lowest levels reported for mammals 
      correspond to walrus blubber, the sum of PCBs and DDTs being in the ranges of 
      180-360 micrograms/kg ww and 50-90 micrograms/kg ww, respectively. The content of 
      PCBs in scallops was found to be 3 micrograms/kg ww near the Thule Air base.
FAU - Fromberg, A
AU  - Fromberg A
AD  - National Environmental Research Institute, Department of Environmental Chemistry, 
      Roskilde, Denmark.
FAU - Cleemann, M
AU  - Cleemann M
FAU - Carlsen, L
AU  - Carlsen L
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PT  - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
PT  - Review
PL  - England
TA  - Chemosphere
JT  - Chemosphere
JID - 0320657
RN  - 0 (Environmental Pollutants)
SB  - IM
MH  - Animals
MH  - Birds
MH  - Environmental Pollutants/*analysis
MH  - Fishes
MH  - Greenland
MH  - Mammals
RF  - 33
EDAT- 1999/05/07 00:00
MHDA- 1999/05/07 00:01
CRDT- 1999/05/07 00:00
PHST- 1999/05/07 00:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 1999/05/07 00:01 [medline]
PHST- 1999/05/07 00:00 [entrez]
AID - S0045653598005141 [pii]
AID - 10.1016/s0045-6535(98)00514-1 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Chemosphere. 1999 Jun;38(13):3075-93. doi: 10.1016/s0045-6535(98)00514-1.