PMID- 17499359
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20071206
LR  - 20131121
IS  - 0160-4120 (Print)
IS  - 0160-4120 (Linking)
VI  - 33
IP  - 7
DP  - 2007 Oct
TI  - Screening ecological risk assessment of persistent organic pollutants in 
      Mediterranean sea sediments.
PG  - 867-76
AB  - A screening ecological risk assessment (ERA) was conducted for the first time in 
      the Mediterranean basin in order to assess the toxicity posed to the benthic 
      community by PCBs, DDTs and HCB in marine sediments. The characterization of the 
      exposure was conducted by means of an extensive literature survey, generating a 
      database with more than 2000 samples. The effects were assessed by the adoption 
      of guidelines previously developed in the literature, because ecotoxicological 
      information about persistent organic pollutants (POPs) in the Mediterranean 
      sediments was lacking. Existing sediment quality guidelines (SQGs) for the target 
      pollutants were compiled and consensus values were calculated for three different 
      categories of toxicity, namely threshold effect concentration (TEC), probable 
      effect concentration (PEC) and extreme effect concentration (EEC). The 
      combination of exposure and effects characterization enabled the identification 
      of some areas of concern in the vicinity of industrial and urban locations and in 
      the mouths of the main Mediterranean rivers. Beyond the Mediterranean continental 
      shelf, the level of toxicity for the benthic community was generally low. The 
      evaluation of the toxicity induced by the mixture of the target pollutants 
      spotted the importance of DDT contamination in the Mediterranean sediments, 
      despite the fact that main inputs to the sea have been significantly reduced 
      during the last decades.
FAU - Gomez-Gutierrez, Anna
AU  - Gomez-Gutierrez A
AD  - Department of Environmental Chemistry IIQAB.-CSIC, Jordi Girona 18-26, E-08034 
      Barcelona, Spain.
FAU - Garnacho, Eva
AU  - Garnacho E
FAU - Bayona, Josep M
AU  - Bayona JM
FAU - Albaiges, Joan
AU  - Albaiges J
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PT  - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
DEP - 20070517
PL  - Netherlands
TA  - Environ Int
JT  - Environment international
JID - 7807270
RN  - 0 (Environmental Pollutants)
RN  - 0 (Hydrocarbons, Chlorinated)
RN  - 0 (Water Pollutants, Chemical)
RN  - CIW5S16655 (DDT)
RN  - DFC2HB4I0K (Polychlorinated Biphenyls)
SB  - IM
MH  - DDT/analysis/toxicity
MH  - Ecology
MH  - Environmental Monitoring/methods
MH  - Environmental Pollutants/toxicity
MH  - Environmental Pollution
MH  - Geography
MH  - Geologic Sediments/*chemistry
MH  - Hydrocarbons, Chlorinated/analysis/toxicity
MH  - Mediterranean Sea
MH  - Polychlorinated Biphenyls/analysis/toxicity
MH  - Risk Assessment
MH  - Water Pollutants, Chemical/*toxicity
EDAT- 2007/05/15 09:00
MHDA- 2007/12/07 09:00
CRDT- 2007/05/15 09:00
PHST- 2006/12/04 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2007/03/22 00:00 [revised]
PHST- 2007/04/04 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2007/05/15 09:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2007/12/07 09:00 [medline]
PHST- 2007/05/15 09:00 [entrez]
AID - S0160-4120(07)00076-1 [pii]
AID - 10.1016/j.envint.2007.04.002 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Environ Int. 2007 Oct;33(7):867-76. doi: 10.1016/j.envint.2007.04.002. Epub 2007 
      May 17.