Occurrence and congener profiles of polybrominated diphenyl ethers in green mussels (Perna viridis) collected from northern South China Sea and the associated potential health risk

Runxia Sun; Changgui Pan; Qing X Li; Fengjiao Peng; Bixian Mai

doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.134276

Occurrence and congener profiles of polybrominated diphenyl ethers in green mussels (Perna viridis) collected from northern South China Sea and the associated potential health risk

Sci Total Environ. 2020 Jan 1:698:134276. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.134276. Epub 2019 Sep 3.

Authors

Runxia Sun¹, Changgui Pan², Qing X Li³, Fengjiao Peng⁴, Bixian Mai⁵

Affiliations

¹ School of Marine Sciences, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing, 210044, China.
² School of Marine Sciences, Guangxi University, Nanning 530004, China; Guangxi Laboratory on the Study of Coral Reefs in the South China Sea, Guangxi University, Nanning 530004, China. Electronic address: panchanggui@gxu.edu.cn.
³ Department of Molecular Biosciences and Bioengineering, University of Hawaii at Manoa, 1955 East-West Road, Honolulu, HI 96822, USA.
⁴ Department of Population Health, Luxembourg Institute of Health, 1A-B, Rue Thomas Edison, L-1445 Strassen, Luxembourg.
⁵ State Key Laboratory of Organic Geochemistry, Guangzhou Institute of Geochemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou 510640, China.

PMID: 31514028
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.134276

Abstract

Polybrominated diphenyl ether (PBDE) contamination has become a major concern over the effects on human health. In the present study, we collected widely consumed green mussels (Perna viridis) samples from the northern South China Sea (NSCS) to investigate the occurrence, spatial distribution, congener profiles as well as potential risk of 18 PBDEs. All the target PBDEs were detected in green mussel samples, indicating their ubiquitous distribution. The concentrations of the total 18 PBDE_S (ΣPBDEs) in all samples varied from 6.96 to 55.6 ng/g lipid weight (lw), with BDE-47 and BDE-209 being the predominant PBDE congeners. Overall, the ΣPBDEs pollution in green mussels from NSCS was at a moderate to high level in comparison with the PBDEs pollution worldwide. The dietary exposure of the local population in South China to PBDEs via consuming green mussels was estimated to be 0.30-0.80 ng/kg body weight (bw)/day. Evaluation of the exposure risk for BDE-47, 99, 153 and 209 indicated that health risks due to green mussel consumption are substantially lower than the U.S. EPA minimum concern level.

Keywords: Congener profile; Health risk; PBDE; Perna viridis; Pollution source; Polybrominated diphenyl ethers.

MeSH terms

Animals
China
Dietary Exposure / statistics & numerical data*
Environmental Monitoring*
Food Contamination / statistics & numerical data
Halogenated Diphenyl Ethers / metabolism*
Humans
Perna / metabolism*
Seafood / statistics & numerical data
Water Pollutants, Chemical / metabolism*

Substances

Halogenated Diphenyl Ethers
Water Pollutants, Chemical