PMID- 17695897
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20071012
LR  - 20190715
IS  - 0013-936X (Print)
IS  - 0013-936X (Linking)
VI  - 41
IP  - 13
DP  - 2007 Jul 1
TI  - Current-use flame retardants in the eggs of herring gulls (Larus argentatus) from 
      the Laurentian Great Lakes.
PG  - 4561-7
AB  - Of the 13, current-use, non-polybrominated diphenyl ether (PBDE) flame retardants 
      (FRs) monitored, hexabromobenzene (HBB), pentabromoethylbenzene (PBEB), 
      pentabromotoluene (PBT), 1,2-bis(2,4,6-tribromophenoxy)ethane (BTBPE) and alpha- 
      and gamma-isomers of hexabromocyclododecane (HBCD), and the syn- and anti-isomers 
      of the chlorinated Dechlorane Plus (DP) were quantified in egg pools of herring 
      gulls (Larus argentatus) collected in 2004 from six sites in all five of the 
      Laurentian Great Lakes of North America. alpha-HBCD concentrations ranged from 
      2.1 to 20 ng/g (wet weight (ww)). Other "new" FR levels ranged from 0.004 to 1.4 
      ng/g ww and were much lower than those of the major BDE congeners that are in 
      technical mixtures (namely BDE-47, -99, -100), where sigma3PBDE ranged from 186 
      to 498 ng/g ww. Nineteen hepta-BDEs (sigma(hepta) = 4.9-11 ng/g ww), octa-BDEs 
      (alpha(octa) = 2.6-9.1 ng/g ww), and nona-BDEs (sigma(nona) = 0.12-5.6 ng/g ww) 
      were detectible at all six colonies, while BDE-209 was low but quantifiable (< 
      0.1-0.21 ng/g ww) at two colonies. sigma-DP (syn- and anti-isomers) 
      concentrations in eggs from all sites ranged from 1.5 to 4.5 ng/g ww. Our 
      findings indicate that mother herring gulls are exposed to several, current-use 
      flame retardants via their diet, and in ovo transfer occurred to their eggs. 
      Given the aquatic diet of herring gull, this suggests that there are non-PBDE 
      BFRs present in the gull-associated aquatic food web of the Great Lakes.
FAU - Gauthier, Lewis T
AU  - Gauthier LT
AD  - Science and Technology Branch, National Wildlife Research Centre, Environment 
      Canada, Carleton University, Ottawa, ON K1A 0H3, Canada.
FAU - Hebert, Craig E
AU  - Hebert CE
FAU - Weseloh, D V Chip
AU  - Weseloh DV
FAU - Letcher, Robert J
AU  - Letcher RJ
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PT  - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
PL  - United States
TA  - Environ Sci Technol
JT  - Environmental science & technology
JID - 0213155
RN  - 0 (Flame Retardants)
SB  - IM
MH  - Animals
MH  - Birds
MH  - Canada
MH  - Chromatography, Liquid
MH  - Eggs/*analysis
MH  - Flame Retardants/*analysis
MH  - Fresh Water
MH  - Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry
MH  - Spectrometry, Mass, Electrospray Ionization
EDAT- 2007/08/19 09:00
MHDA- 2007/10/13 09:00
CRDT- 2007/08/19 09:00
PHST- 2007/08/19 09:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2007/10/13 09:00 [medline]
PHST- 2007/08/19 09:00 [entrez]
AID - 10.1021/es0630487 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Environ Sci Technol. 2007 Jul 1;41(13):4561-7. doi: 10.1021/es0630487.