Long-term trends of DDTs and PCBs in sediment samples collected from the eastern Adriatic coastal waters
- Ruder Boskovic Inst., Zagreb (Croatia)
It has been well documented that synthetic chlorinated hydrocarbon residues are widespread throughout the oceanic ecosystem. The Mediterranean Sea, as a semienclosed body of water, is of special interest and there have been many baseline studies to measure the existing levels of these contaminants in various components of the ecosystem. Although declining DDT residues in estuarine mollusks were noted in 1973, there are only a few data describing the long-term monitoring over an fourteen-year period. It is very important to stress that all these samples were analyzed from a single analytical group (mostly by the same analyst), using a uniform methodology which was very successfully intercalibrated during seven international intercalibration exercises.
- OSTI ID:
- 7278708
- Journal Information:
- Bulletin of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology; (United States), Vol. 47:6; ISSN 0007-4861
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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CHLORINATED AROMATIC HYDROCARBONS
QUANTITATIVE CHEMICAL ANALYSIS
DDT
SEDIMENTS
CHEMICAL ANALYSIS
ADRIATIC SEA
COASTAL REGIONS
QUANTITY RATIO
AROMATICS
HALOGENATED AROMATIC HYDROCARBONS
INSECTICIDES
MEDITERRANEAN SEA
ORGANIC CHLORINE COMPOUNDS
ORGANIC COMPOUNDS
ORGANIC HALOGEN COMPOUNDS
PESTICIDES
SEAS
SURFACE WATERS
560300* - Chemicals Metabolism & Toxicology