PMID- 21520249
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20110916
LR  - 20181201
IS  - 1552-8618 (Electronic)
IS  - 0730-7268 (Linking)
VI  - 30
IP  - 7
DP  - 2011 Jul
TI  - Evaluation of potential relationships between chemical contaminants in sediments 
      and aquatic organisms from the lower Passaic River, New Jersey, USA.
PG  - 1721-8
LID - 10.1002/etc.550 [doi]
AB  - The lower Passaic River, New Jersey, USA, a tidal tributary to Newark Bay and 
      part of the New York and New Jersey Harbor Estuary, is contaminated with a 
      variety of persistent organic pollutants (POPs) due to nearly two centuries of 
      heavy industrialization and urbanization. Resident aquatic organisms are exposed 
      to, and can bioaccumulate, a variety of chemical contaminants from sediments, 
      water and other organisms. In the present study, the relationships between 
      selected POPs detected in both surface sediments and aquatic organisms are 
      examined statistically along with the efficacy of using empirical biota-sediment 
      accumulation factors (BSAFs) to describe such relationships. Regression analyses 
      were conducted on synoptic surface sediment POP data (0 to 15 cm in depth) and 
      whole-body tissue POP data for three prominent organisms that reside in the river 
      and which are important components of the food web: mummichog (Fundulus 
      heteroclitus), blue crab (Callinectes sapidus), and white perch (Morone 
      americana). Per the equilibrium partitioning theory on which the BSAF model is 
      based, surface sediment data were normalized to total organic carbon and tissue 
      data were normalized to lipid content for each organism. Normalized surface 
      sediment concentrations were generally poorly correlated with normalized biota 
      tissue concentrations. The BSAF model was not found to be a reliable means to 
      predict concentrations of POPs in select lower Passaic River organisms, using 
      surface sediment chemistry data.
CI  - Copyright (c) 2011 SETAC.
FAU - Iannuzzi, Jacqueline
AU  - Iannuzzi J
AD  - ARCADIS, Annapolis, Maryland, USA. jackie.iannuzzi@arcadis-us.com
FAU - Butcher, Matthew
AU  - Butcher M
FAU - Iannuzzi, Timothy
AU  - Iannuzzi T
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PT  - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
DEP - 20110513
PL  - United States
TA  - Environ Toxicol Chem
JT  - Environmental toxicology and chemistry
JID - 8308958
RN  - 0 (Organic Chemicals)
RN  - 0 (Water Pollutants, Chemical)
SB  - IM
MH  - Animals
MH  - Aquatic Organisms/*metabolism
MH  - Bass/metabolism
MH  - Biota
MH  - Brachyura/metabolism
MH  - Environmental Monitoring
MH  - Food Chain
MH  - Fundulidae/metabolism
MH  - Geologic Sediments/*chemistry
MH  - Models, Biological
MH  - Models, Chemical
MH  - New Jersey
MH  - Organic Chemicals/analysis/chemistry/metabolism
MH  - Regression Analysis
MH  - Rivers/*chemistry
MH  - Water Pollutants, Chemical/*analysis/chemistry/metabolism
MH  - Water Pollution, Chemical/statistics & numerical data
EDAT- 2011/04/27 06:00
MHDA- 2011/09/17 06:00
CRDT- 2011/04/27 06:00
PHST- 2010/10/11 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2010/12/14 00:00 [revised]
PHST- 2011/04/10 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2011/04/27 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2011/04/27 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2011/09/17 06:00 [medline]
AID - 10.1002/etc.550 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Environ Toxicol Chem. 2011 Jul;30(7):1721-8. doi: 10.1002/etc.550. Epub 2011 May 
      13.