PMID- 31085495
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20190813
LR  - 20190813
IS  - 1879-1026 (Electronic)
IS  - 0048-9697 (Linking)
VI  - 678
DP  - 2019 Aug 15
TI  - Recently listed Stockholm convention POPs: Analytical methodology, occurrence in 
      food and dietary exposure.
PG  - 793-800
LID - S0048-9697(19)31984-9 [pii]
LID - 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.04.433 [doi]
AB  - In recent years, the Stockholm Convention has listed an additional set of 
      persistent organic pollutants (POPs) for elimination or restricted use/release. 
      Data on the occurrence of these contaminants in food is scarce. Validated 
      analytical methodology was developed to investigate the occurrence of 
      hexachlorobutadiene (HCBD), pentachlorobenzene (PCBz), hexachlorobenzene (HCB) 
      pentachlorophenol (PCP) and polychlorinated naphthalenes (PCNs) in 120 retail 
      foods and 19 total diet study samples. The foods covered the range of commonly 
      consumed dietary items including dairy products, eggs (hen and other species), 
      poultry, meat, fish, vegetables, etc. HCBD showed a low frequency of detection, 
      whereas PCBz, HCB and PCNs occurred in most samples (ranges: <0.01 to 0.19 mug/kg; 
      <0.01 to 3.16 mug/kg and 0.1 to 166 ng SigmaPCNs/kg respectively). PCP (<0.01 to 
      1.9 mug/kg) was detected more frequently in meat products, offal and eggs. Fish, 
      shellfish, eggs from all species, animal fats, meat, offal and meat products 
      showed higher contamination levels, which is normal when investigating lipophilic 
      POPs. These levels of occurrence are similar to more recently reported literature 
      levels but perhaps lower, relative to historic data. This is not unexpected, 
      given the restrictions/limitations on these chemicals within the UK and Western 
      Europe. The estimated human exposure to population groups through dietary intake 
      is correspondingly low and based on current toxicological knowledge, the levels 
      in the examined samples do not suggest a cause for health concern. The data also 
      provide a current baseline for HCBD, PCBz and PCP, and update existing data for 
      PCN and HCB occurrence in foods.
CI  - Crown Copyright (c) 2019. Published by Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
FAU - Fernandes, A R
AU  - Fernandes AR
AD  - School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich NR4 7TJ, UK; 
      Fera Science Ltd, Sand Hutton, York YO41 1LZ, UK. Electronic address: 
      Alwyn.Fernandes@uea.ac.uk.
FAU - Mortimer, D
AU  - Mortimer D
AD  - Food Standards Agency, Clive House, 70 Petty, London SW1H 9EX, France.
FAU - Rose, M
AU  - Rose M
AD  - Fera Science Ltd, Sand Hutton, York YO41 1LZ, UK; Manchester Institute of 
      Biotechnology, University of Manchester, Manchester M1 7DN, UK.
FAU - Smith, F
AU  - Smith F
AD  - Fera Science Ltd, Sand Hutton, York YO41 1LZ, UK.
FAU - Steel, Z
AU  - Steel Z
AD  - Fera Science Ltd, Sand Hutton, York YO41 1LZ, UK.
FAU - Panton, S
AU  - Panton S
AD  - Fera Science Ltd, Sand Hutton, York YO41 1LZ, UK.
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
DEP - 20190503
PL  - Netherlands
TA  - Sci Total Environ
JT  - The Science of the total environment
JID - 0330500
RN  - 0 (Environmental Pollutants)
MH  - Animals
MH  - Dietary Exposure/*analysis
MH  - Environmental Monitoring/*methods
MH  - Environmental Pollutants/*analysis
MH  - Food Contamination/*analysis
MH  - United Kingdom
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - Hexachlorobutadiene
OT  - Human exposure
OT  - Pentachlorobenzene
OT  - Pentachlorophenol
OT  - Polychlorinated naphthalenes
OT  - Risk assessment
EDAT- 2019/05/16 06:00
MHDA- 2019/08/14 06:00
CRDT- 2019/05/16 06:00
PHST- 2019/03/12 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2019/04/27 00:00 [revised]
PHST- 2019/04/29 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2019/05/16 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2019/08/14 06:00 [medline]
PHST- 2019/05/16 06:00 [entrez]
AID - S0048-9697(19)31984-9 [pii]
AID - 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.04.433 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Sci Total Environ. 2019 Aug 15;678:793-800. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.04.433. 
      Epub 2019 May 3.