Detection of polybrominated diphenyl ethers in tilapia (Oreochromis mossambicus) from O'ahu, Hawai;i

Fangxing Yang; A Alonso Aguirre; Shiwei Jin; Bruce Wilcox; Luc Rougée; Ying Xu; Yuanan Lu

doi:10.1039/b800115d

Detection of polybrominated diphenyl ethers in tilapia (Oreochromis mossambicus) from O'ahu, Hawai;i

J Environ Monit. 2008 Apr;10(4):432-4. doi: 10.1039/b800115d. Epub 2008 Mar 7.

Authors

Fangxing Yang¹, A Alonso Aguirre, Shiwei Jin, Bruce Wilcox, Luc Rougée, Ying Xu, Yuanan Lu

Affiliation

¹ State Key Laboratory of Freshwater Ecology and Biotechnology, Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, China. xuying@ihb.ac.cn

PMID: 18385863
DOI: 10.1039/b800115d

Abstract

Polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs) have been detected for the first time at a range from 231.58 to 685.61 ng g(-1) lipid weight in the muscles of tilapia (Oreochromis mossambicus) collected from O'ahu, an island of the geographically isolated Hawaiian archipelago.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Animals
Environmental Monitoring*
Ethers
Hawaii
Muscle, Skeletal / chemistry*
Polybrominated Biphenyls / analysis*
Tilapia*
Water Pollutants, Chemical / analysis*

Substances

Ethers
Polybrominated Biphenyls
Water Pollutants, Chemical