Brominated Flame Retardants in Glaucous Gulls from the Norwegian Arctic:  More Than Just an Issue of Polybrominated Diphenyl Ethers

Brominated Flame Retardants in Glaucous Gulls from the Norwegian Arctic:  More Than Just an Issue of Polybrominated Diphenyl Ethers

Several, unregulated, current-use brominated flame retardants (BFRs), including hexabromobenzene (HBB), 1,2-bis(2,4,6-tribromophenoxy)ethane (BTBPE), pentabromoethylbenzene (PBEB), pentabromotoluene (PBT), and hexabromocyclododecane (as total-(α)-HBCD), were examined in egg yolk and plasma of male a...

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Veröffentlicht in:Environmental science & technology 2007-07, Vol.41 (14), p.4925-4931
Hauptverfasser: Verreault, Jonathan, Gebbink, Wouter A, Gauthier, Lewis T, Gabrielsen, Geir W, Letcher, Robert J
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Sprache:eng
Schlagworte:
Animal, plant and microbial ecology
Animals
Applied ecology
Arctic Regions
Atmosphere
Aves
Biological and medical sciences
Birds
Chemical compounds
Contamination
Ecotoxicology, biological effects of pollution
Effects of pollution and side effects of pesticides on vertebrates
Environmental science
Female
Females
Flame retardants
Flame Retardants - analysis
Food chains
Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology
Larus hyperboreus
Male
Marine
Plasma
Polybrominated Biphenyls - analysis
Polybrominated diphenyl ethers
Quality Control
Reference Standards
Vertebrates: general zoology, morphology, phylogeny, systematics, cytogenetics, geographical distribution
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Zusammenfassung:Several, unregulated, current-use brominated flame retardants (BFRs), including hexabromobenzene (HBB), 1,2-bis(2,4,6-tribromophenoxy)ethane (BTBPE), pentabromoethylbenzene (PBEB), pentabromotoluene (PBT), and hexabromocyclododecane (as total-(α)-HBCD), were examined in egg yolk and plasma of male and female glaucous gulls (Larus hyperboreus) from the Norwegian Arctic. Also examined were BDE209 and 38 tri- to nona-BDE congeners and brominated biphenyl (BB) 101. The HBB, BTBPE, PBEB, and PBT had high detection frequencies and variability in male and female plasma and egg yolk samples, and their concentrations ranged from nondetectable (
ISSN:0013-936X
1520-5851
DOI:10.1021/es070522f