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Title: The selective bioaccumulation of some components of technical chlordane in human breast tissue

Conference · · Preprints of Papers Presented at National Meeting, Division of Water, Air and Waste Chemistry, American Chemical Society; (USA)
OSTI ID:7266306
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  1. Indiana Univ., Bloomington (USA)

General use of technical grade chlordane has led to wide exposure of the general populace to this toxic mixture. In an attempt to assess this exposure, the various components of technical chlordane were identified, and some were quantitated in fifteen human breast tissue using electron capture, negative ionization mass spectrometry coupled with capillary gas chromatography (ECNI GC/MS). It was found that trans- and cis-nonachlor, a third nonachlor isomer, and structurally unknown chlordane-like components of technical chlordane are retained in human breast tissue in greater abundance than the gamma and alpha isomers of chlordane. Relative bioaccumulation factors were 30 to 250 times the relative bioaccumulation of the gamma and alpha chlordanes, as compared to a technical chlordane standard. Compounds that could be quantitated include: cis-nonachlor at 14-90 ng/g fat, trans-nonachlor at 200-1000 ng/g fat, gamma-chlordane at 2-10 ng/g fat, and alpha-chlordane at 2-13 ng/g fat. A possible mechanism of discrimination is differential metabolism of the various carbon skeletons derived from the isomers of chlordene. It is well-known that the chlordene starting material has various distinct structural analogs. These different analogs, when chlorinated further, may have quite different rates of metabolism.

OSTI ID:
7266306
Report Number(s):
CONF-8809264-; CODEN: ACWCA
Journal Information:
Preprints of Papers Presented at National Meeting, Division of Water, Air and Waste Chemistry, American Chemical Society; (USA), Vol. 28:2; Conference: American Chemical Society Division of Environmental Chemistry, Los Angeles, CA (USA), 25-30 Sep 1988; ISSN 0099-7293
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English