Persistent organic pollutants in food items collected in Hong Kong |
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Authors: | Qin Yan Yan Leung Clement Kai Man Leung Anna Oi Wah Zheng Jin Shu Wong Ming Hung |
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Affiliation: | a Croucher Institute for Environmental Sciences, and Department of Biology, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong, PR China b IVF Centre Limited, Hong Kong Sanatorium & Hospital, 2 Village Road, Happy Valley, Hong Kong, PR China |
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Abstract: | This study aims to investigate levels of POPs in meat, edible oils, nuts, milk and wine collected from Hong Kong. Naphthalene, pp-DDE, beta-, gamma-HCH and PBDE 47 were detected in most of the food items. Goose liver accumulated the highest PAHs (47.9 ng g−1 wet wt), DDTs (25.6), HCHs (13.0), PCBs (4.17), PBDEs (468 pg g−1 wet wt) among all the selected food. Meat and nut groups had significant (p < 0.01 or 0.05) correlations between lipid contents and concentrations of PAHs (meat: r = 0.878), HCHs (meat: r = 0.753), DDTs (meat: r = 0.937; nuts: r = 0.968) and PCBs (meat: r = 0.832; nut: r = 0.946). The concentrations of DDTs, HCHs and PCBs in vegetable oil were lower, but HCHs in fish oil were higher, when compared with other countries. The concentrations of PAHs, DDTs, PCBs and PBDEs in food tested in the present study were all below various safety guidelines. |
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Keywords: | PAHs DDTs HCHs PCBs PBDEs Food |
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