PMID- 36273690
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20221207
LR  - 20221207
IS  - 1873-6424 (Electronic)
IS  - 0269-7491 (Linking)
VI  - 316
IP  - Pt 1
DP  - 2023 Jan 1
TI  - Assessment of contaminants in blue sharks from the Northeast Atlantic: Profiles, 
      accumulation dynamics, and risks for human consumers.
PG  - 120467
LID - S0269-7491(22)01681-5 [pii]
LID - 10.1016/j.envpol.2022.120467 [doi]
AB  - Chemical pollution is a major threat to marine ecosystems, and top predators such 
      as most shark species are extremely vulnerable to being exposed and accumulating 
      contaminants such as metals and persistent organic pollutants (POPs). This work 
      aimed to study the degree, composition, and the sources of contamination in the 
      blue shark (Prionace glauca) inhabiting the Northeast Atlantic, as well as the 
      potential risk faced by human consumers. A total of 60 sharks were sampled in 
      situ aboard fishing vessels, and the concentrations of a set of metals and POPs 
      were analysed in various tissues and complemented with stable isotope analyses. 
      High levels of contaminants were found in most sharks sampled. The concentrations 
      of most metals were higher in the muscle when compared with the liver. Regarding 
      the dangers to consumers posed by the concentrations of arsenic (As), mercury 
      (Hg), and lead (Pb), over 75% of the sharks presented muscle concentrations of at 
      least one contaminant above the legal limits for human consumption, and a risk 
      assessment determined that consumption of meat of these sharks exceeding 0.07 Kg 
      per week could potentially expose human consumers to dangerous amounts of 
      methylmercury (MeHg). Additionally, the assessment of single contaminants may 
      lead to an underestimation of the risk for the human health. Finally, the overall 
      accumulation of contaminants seems to be mostly influenced by the sharks' 
      geographical distribution, rather than sex, size, or trophic level of their prey.
CI  - Copyright (c) 2022 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd.. All rights reserved.
FAU - Alves, Luis M F
AU  - Alves LMF
AD  - MARE- Marine and Environmental Sciences Centre & ARNET - Aquatic Research 
      Infrastructure Network Associated Laboratory, ESTM, Polytechnic of Leiria, 
      Peniche, Portugal. Electronic address: luis.f.alves@ipleiria.pt.
FAU - Lemos, Marco F L
AU  - Lemos MFL
AD  - MARE- Marine and Environmental Sciences Centre & ARNET - Aquatic Research 
      Infrastructure Network Associated Laboratory, ESTM, Polytechnic of Leiria, 
      Peniche, Portugal.
FAU - Moutinho, Ariana B
AU  - Moutinho AB
AD  - MARE- Marine and Environmental Sciences Centre & ARNET - Aquatic Research 
      Infrastructure Network Associated Laboratory, ESTM, Polytechnic of Leiria, 
      Peniche, Portugal.
FAU - Ceia, Filipe R
AU  - Ceia FR
AD  - University of Coimbra, MARE - Marine and Environmental Sciences Centre / ARNET - 
      Aquatic Research Network, Department of Life Sciences, Calcada Martim de Freitas, 
      3000-456 Coimbra, Portugal.
FAU - Munoz-Arnanz, Juan
AU  - Munoz-Arnanz J
AD  - Dept. of Instrumental Analysis and Environmental Chemistry, Institute of Organic 
      Chemistry, (IQOG-CSIC), Madrid, Spain.
FAU - Jimenez, Begona
AU  - Jimenez B
AD  - Dept. of Instrumental Analysis and Environmental Chemistry, Institute of Organic 
      Chemistry, (IQOG-CSIC), Madrid, Spain.
FAU - Cabral, Henrique
AU  - Cabral H
AD  - INRAE, UR EABX, 50 Avenue de Verdun, 33612, Cestas, France.
FAU - Novais, Sara C
AU  - Novais SC
AD  - MARE- Marine and Environmental Sciences Centre & ARNET - Aquatic Research 
      Infrastructure Network Associated Laboratory, ESTM, Polytechnic of Leiria, 
      Peniche, Portugal.
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
DEP - 20221020
PL  - England
TA  - Environ Pollut
JT  - Environmental pollution (Barking, Essex : 1987)
JID - 8804476
RN  - 0 (Water Pollutants, Chemical)
RN  - FXS1BY2PGL (Mercury)
RN  - N712M78A8G (Arsenic)
RN  - 0 (Metals)
SB  - IM
MH  - Humans
MH  - Animals
MH  - *Water Pollutants, Chemical/analysis
MH  - Ecosystem
MH  - *Sharks
MH  - *Mercury/analysis
MH  - *Arsenic/analysis
MH  - Metals
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - Elasmobranchs
OT  - Marine biomonitoring
OT  - Metals
OT  - Pollution
OT  - TXRF
OT  - human risk analysis
COIS- Declaration of competing interest The authors declare that they have no known 
      competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared 
      to influence the work reported in this paper.
EDAT- 2022/10/24 06:00
MHDA- 2023/02/25 06:00
CRDT- 2022/10/23 19:35
PHST- 2022/07/20 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2022/10/14 00:00 [revised]
PHST- 2022/10/15 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2022/10/24 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2023/02/25 06:00 [medline]
PHST- 2022/10/23 19:35 [entrez]
AID - S0269-7491(22)01681-5 [pii]
AID - 10.1016/j.envpol.2022.120467 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Environ Pollut. 2023 Jan 1;316(Pt 1):120467. doi: 10.1016/j.envpol.2022.120467. 
      Epub 2022 Oct 20.