PMID- 18718633
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20090129
LR  - 20081020
IS  - 1879-1298 (Electronic)
IS  - 0045-6535 (Linking)
VI  - 73
IP  - 7
DP  - 2008 Oct
TI  - A comparison of sediment quality guidelines for toxicity assessment in the 
      Sunderban wetlands (Bay of Bengal, India).
PG  - 1129-37
LID - 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2008.07.019 [doi]
AB  - The aim of this paper was to obtain the first screening ecotoxicological risk 
      evaluation in the Sunderban wetlands, the largest prograding delta in the 
      estuarine phase of the River Ganges. The characterization of exposure was 
      conducted by means of an extensive survey of several persistent organic 
      pollutants (PAHs, PCBs, DDTs, PBDEs, HCHs, HCB) measured in seven core sediments 
      from the Sunderban wetlands, obtaining a dataset with more than 2200 analyses. 
      The pollutant effects were assessed by the use of three different sediment 
      quality guidelines (SQGs) previously developed in the literature to evaluate 
      toxicity induced in sediment-dwelling organisms. The three different approaches 
      chosen for risk assessment of the Sunderban were the consensus SQGs obtained by 
      TEC (threshold effect concentration), PEC (probable effect concentration) and EEC 
      (extreme effect concentration), the threshold/probable effect level (TEL/PEL) 
      approach and, finally, the ERL-ERM guidelines, including the m-ERM-Q (mean ERM 
      quotient). The evaluation of the toxicity induced by a mixture of the target 
      pollutants indicated the importance of gamma-HCH contamination in the Sunderban 
      sediments despite the very low concentrations measured in core sediments. A 
      different sensitivity for toxicity assessment due to quality guidelines was 
      obtained, as the consensus SQGs based on TEC were less conservative and 
      protective than the TEL and ERL approaches, while the use of m-ERM-Q seems to be 
      the most powerful tool to predict the toxicity related to a contaminant mixture.
FAU - Binelli, Andrea
AU  - Binelli A
AD  - Department of Biology, University of Milan, Via Celoria 26, 20133 Milan, Italy. 
      andrea.binelli@unimi.it
FAU - Sarkar, Santosh Kumar
AU  - Sarkar SK
FAU - Chatterjee, Mousumi
AU  - Chatterjee M
FAU - Riva, Consuelo
AU  - Riva C
FAU - Parolini, Marco
AU  - Parolini M
FAU - Bhattacharya, Bhaskar deb
AU  - Bhattacharya Bd
FAU - Bhattacharya, Asok Kumar
AU  - Bhattacharya AK
FAU - Satpathy, Kamala Kanta
AU  - Satpathy KK
LA  - eng
PT  - Comparative Study
PT  - Journal Article
DEP - 20080820
PL  - England
TA  - Chemosphere
JT  - Chemosphere
JID - 0320657
RN  - 0 (Soil Pollutants)
RN  - 0 (Water Pollutants, Chemical)
SB  - IM
MH  - Analysis of Variance
MH  - Geography
MH  - Geologic Sediments/*analysis/chemistry
MH  - Guidelines as Topic
MH  - India
MH  - Soil Pollutants/*chemistry/toxicity
MH  - Water Pollutants, Chemical/analysis
MH  - *Wetlands
EDAT- 2008/08/23 09:00
MHDA- 2009/01/30 09:00
CRDT- 2008/08/23 09:00
PHST- 2008/02/11 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2008/07/02 00:00 [revised]
PHST- 2008/07/09 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2008/08/23 09:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2009/01/30 09:00 [medline]
PHST- 2008/08/23 09:00 [entrez]
AID - S0045-6535(08)00904-1 [pii]
AID - 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2008.07.019 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Chemosphere. 2008 Oct;73(7):1129-37. doi: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2008.07.019. Epub 
      2008 Aug 20.