This study aims to explore persistent microorganic pollutants (Poly chloro byphneyls (PCBs) and Organochlorine Pesticides (OCPs)) in sediment mud clams (Polymesoda erosa) Segara Anakan Lagoon (SAL). In addition, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) the were evaluated their risk consumption Bioaccumulation factor sediment. Concentrations of seven PCBs found range 0.11 ± 0.05 2.63 0.1 μg kg−1 ...

Pollution reduction efforts should be targeted toward those sources that result in the highest bioaccumulation. For mercury (Hg) in estuaries and other complex water bodies, carefully designed biosentinel monitoring programs can help identify predictors of bioaccumulation and inform management priorities for source reduction. This study employed a probabilistic forage fish Hg survey with hypoth...

The Bay of Biscay (northeast Atlantic) is an open marine ecosystem of particular concern in current European environmental policies. Indeed, it supports both a high biological diversity and numerous anthropogenic activities such as important fisheries. For the first time, stable isotope analyses (SIA) of carbon and nitrogen and analysis of total mercury (T-Hg) concentrations in the muscle (edib...

Little is known regarding mixture effects of metals and polynuclear aromatic hydrocarbon (PAHs) under environmentally relevant exposure regimes. Standard U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (U.S. EPA) procedures were applied and extended to test effects of phenanthrene (Phen) on sediment-Cd uptake, aqueous-Cd uptake, and Cd-elimination kinetics in the amphipod Hyalella azteca. In sediment expo...

Total mercury (THg), methylmercury (MeHg) in water, sediments, macrophytes, fish and human health risks were analyzed assessed from abandoned gold mining ponds (AGMPs)/ areas Western Colombia to know its present environmental condition. Concentrations of THg water (avg. 13.0 ± 13.73 ng L-1) was above the EPA threshold level (12 L-1), suggesting possible chronic effects. Sediment sample revealed...

Anatase TiO2 nanosheets (NSs) with exposed {001} facets have been widely used because of their high activity and particular surface atomic configuration. However, investigations on their biotoxicity are rare. In this study, bioaccumulation of five different TiO2 (with 10%, 61%, 71%, 74% and 78% exposed {001} facets), as well as copper and enzyme activities in Daphnia magna, are systematically i...

Algae biosorption is an ideal wastewater treatment method when coupled with algae growth and biosorption. The adsorption and bioaccumulation of strontium from simulated nuclear wastewater by Scenedesmus spinosus were investigated in this research. One hundred mL of cultured S. spinosus cells with a dry weight of 1.0 mg in simulated nuclear wastewater were used to analyze the effects on S. spino...

This paper describes a method for deriving site-specific water quality criteria for selenium using a two-step process: (1) gather information on selenium residues and biological effects at the site and in down-gradient systems and (2) examine criteria based on the degree of bioaccumulation, the relationship between measured residues and threshold concentrations for reproductive effects in fish ...

Worldwide programmes for the regulation of chemicals require an assessment of the risks of chemicals to human and environmental health based on three categories of concern: Persistence, Bioaccumulation and Toxicity (PBT). Among these three categories, bioaccumulation refers to the enrichment of environmental chemicals in organisms. It encompasses the absorption, distribution, metabolism and exc...

the concentrations of heavy metals, mn, zn, fe and hg were determined in sediments and in the whole soft tissue of the clam galatea paradoxa from two clam fishing locations, ada and aveglo at the volta estuary in ghana from march to september 2008. thirty clams were obtained from each sampling location monthly and grouped into three size classes of 10 individuals each based on shell lengths as ...