PMID- 30818776 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20190701 LR - 20200309 IS - 1660-4601 (Electronic) IS - 1661-7827 (Print) IS - 1660-4601 (Linking) VI - 16 IP - 5 DP - 2019 Feb 27 TI - Traditional Diet and Environmental Contaminants in Coastal Chukotka I: Study Design and Dietary Patterns. LID - 10.3390/ijerph16050702 [doi] LID - 702 AB - The article is the first in the series of four that present the results of a study on environmental contaminants in coastal Chukotka, conducted in the context of a multi-disciplinary investigation of indigenous foodways in the region of the Bering Strait. We provide an overview of the contemporary foodways in our study region and present the results of the survey on the consumption of locally harvested foods, carried out in 2016 in the Chukotkan communities of Enmelen, Nunligran, and Sireniki. The present results are evaluated in comparison to those of the analyses carried out in 2001(-)2002 in the village of Uelen, located further north. Where appropriate, we also draw comparative insight from the Alaskan side of the Bering Strait. The article sets the stage for the analyses of legacy persistent organic pollutants (POPs) and metals to which the residents become exposed through diet and other practices embedded in the local foodways, and for the discussion of the Recommended Food Daily Intake Limits (RFDILs) of the food that has been sampled and analyzed in the current study. FAU - Dudarev, Alexey A AU - Dudarev AA AD - Department of Arctic Environmental Health, Northwest Public Health Research Center, St-Petersburg 191036, Russia. alexey.d@inbox.ru. FAU - Yamin-Pasternak, Sveta AU - Yamin-Pasternak S AD - Institute of Northern Engineering and Department of Anthropology, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK 99775, USA. syamin@alaska.edu. FAU - Pasternak, Igor AU - Pasternak I AD - Institute of Northern Engineering and Department of Art, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK 99775, USA. gipasternak@alaska.edu. FAU - Chupakhin, Valery S AU - Chupakhin VS AD - Department of Arctic Environmental Health, Northwest Public Health Research Center, St-Petersburg 191036, Russia. valeriy.chupakhin@gmail.com. LA - eng PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't PT - Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S. DEP - 20190227 PL - Switzerland TA - Int J Environ Res Public Health JT - International journal of environmental research and public health JID - 101238455 RN - 0 (Environmental Pollutants) SB - IM MH - Arctic Regions MH - Diet/ethnology/*statistics & numerical data MH - Dietary Exposure/analysis/*statistics & numerical data MH - Environmental Monitoring/*methods MH - Environmental Pollutants/*analysis MH - Food Contamination/analysis/statistics & numerical data MH - Humans MH - Research Design MH - Russia PMC - PMC6427318 OTO - NOTNLM OT - Bering Strait OT - Russian Arctic OT - aesthetics OT - coastal Chukotka OT - cuisine OT - indigenous people OT - subsistence food OT - traditional diet COIS- The authors declare no potential conflict of interest. The founding sponsors had no role in the design of the study, in the collection, analyses, or interpretation of data, in the writing of the manuscript, and in the decision to publish the results. EDAT- 2019/03/02 06:00 MHDA- 2019/07/02 06:00 PMCR- 2019/03/01 CRDT- 2019/03/02 06:00 PHST- 2018/11/17 00:00 [received] PHST- 2018/12/17 00:00 [revised] PHST- 2018/12/18 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2019/03/02 06:00 [entrez] PHST- 2019/03/02 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2019/07/02 06:00 [medline] PHST- 2019/03/01 00:00 [pmc-release] AID - ijerph16050702 [pii] AID - ijerph-16-00702 [pii] AID - 10.3390/ijerph16050702 [doi] PST - epublish SO - Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2019 Feb 27;16(5):702. doi: 10.3390/ijerph16050702.