Levels of regulated POPs in fish samples from the Sava River Basin. Comparison to legislated quality standard values

Manuela Ábalos, Damià Barceló, Jordi Parera, Marinel La Farré, Marta Llorca, Ethel Eljarrat, Monica Giulivo, Ettore Capri, Momir Paunović, Radmila Milačič, Esteban Abad

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Abstract

Fish samples of different species (i.e. rainbow trout (Onchorhynchus mykiss), barbel (Barbus barbus) and European chub (Squalius cephalus)) were collected from the Sava River Basin for a preliminary investigation of the levels of PCDD/Fs, PCBs, PBDEs and PFAS as a whole. Concentrations of PCDD/Fs, in terms of pg WHO-TEQ/g ww, were below the maximum limit established at the Commission Regulation (EU) No 1259/2011. On the contrary, when DL-PCBs were also included, levels increase up to 11.7 pg WHO-TEQPCDD/Fs+DL-PCBs/g ww in a particular case, with two samples out of a total of ten exceeding the maximum set at this EU Regulation and the EQS established at the European Directive regarding priority substances in the field of water policy (0.0065 ng WHO-TEQPCDD/Fs+DL-PCBs/g ww). A similar trend was also observed for NDL-PCBs, whit the same two samples, from the lower stretch of the river basin, exceeding the maximum limit allowed at the EU Regulation (125 ng/g ww). For PBDEs, levels found in all the samples exceeded the EQS (0.0085 ng/g ww) up to more than a thousand times and 40% of the samples presented PFOS values above the EQS. Data from this study were compared to values reported at the literature for fish from other geographical areas.
Lingua originaleEnglish
pagine (da-a)20-28
Numero di pagine9
RivistaScience of the Total Environment
Volume647
DOI
Stato di pubblicazionePubblicato - 2019

Keywords

  • Environmental Chemistry
  • Environmental Engineering
  • Environmental quality standard
  • PBDE
  • PCB
  • PCDD/F
  • PFAS
  • Pollution
  • Waste Management and Disposal

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