Analysis of the Mercury Content in Fish for Human Consumption in Poland
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Materials and Methods
- C—concentration of contaminant;
- CR—average daily contact;
- EF—exposure frequency;
- ED—exposure duration;
- BW—body weight;
- AT—averaging time.
3. Results
4. Discussion
5. Conclusions
Author Contributions
Funding
Institutional Review Board Statement
Informed Consent Statement
Data Availability Statement
Acknowledgments
Conflicts of Interest
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Fish | Species | Latin Name | Number of Fish | Origin/FAO Catch Area | Origin—Supplementary Information |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Marine | Atlantic cod | Gadus morhua | 9 | FAO 27 | Norwegian Sea |
Coal fish | Pollachius virens | 1 | FAO 27 | North Sea | |
Atlantic salmon | Salmo salar | 1 | FAO 61, FAO 67 | China | |
2 | farmed | Norway | |||
Yellowfin tuna | Thunnus albacares | 1 | FAO 51 | — | |
Atlantic bluefin tuna | Thunnus thynnus | 6 | FAO 34 | — | |
Mackerel | Scomber scombrus | 1 | FAO 27 | North Sea | |
Alasca pollock | Gadus chalcogrammus | 5 | FAO 61, FAO 67 | Pacific Ocean | |
Hake | Merluccius merluccius | 4 | FAO 41 | — | |
Atlantic halibut | Hippoglossus hippoglossus | 4 | FAO 27, FAO 21 | — | |
Turbot | Scophthalmus maximus | 1 | FAO 27 | — | |
Flounder | Platichthys flesus | 2 | FAO 27 | — | |
Wels catfish | -Silurus glanis | 1 | — | — | |
Freshwater | Nile perch | Lates niloticus | 5 | — | — |
Rainbow trout | Oncorhynchus mykiss | 1 | — | — | |
Brown trout | Salmo truta | 1 | — | — | |
Pike | Esox lucius | 3 | — | — | |
Carp | Cyprinus carpio | 8 | farmed | Poland | |
Pike perch | Sander lucioperca | 5 | — | — |
Fish | N | AM ± SD | Median | Quartile | p | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Q1 | Q3 | |||||
All | 68 | 0.084 ± 0.120 | 0.045 | 0.017 | 0.092 | |
Marine | 38 | 0.100 ± 0.146 | 0.060 | 0.028 | 0.096 | 0.097 |
Freshwater | 30 | 0.063 ± 0.073 | 0.024 | 0.013 | 0.089 |
Type | Species | C [mg/kg] | EDI [mg/kg Body Weight] | EHQ |
---|---|---|---|---|
Marine | Atlantic salmon | 0.017 | 0.000008 | 0.077 |
Yellowfin tuna | 0.265 | 0.000122 | 1.217 | |
Atlantic bluefin tuna | 0.278 | 0.000128 | 1.277 | |
Coal fish | 0.096 | 0.000044 | 0.439 | |
Atlantic cod | 0.049 | 0.000022 | 0.224 | |
Mackerel | 0.058 | 0.000027 | 0.268 | |
Alasca pollock | 0.037 | 0.000017 | 0.171 | |
Hake | 0.041 | 0.000019 | 0.187 | |
Atlantic halibut | 0.154 | 0.000071 | 0.707 | |
Turbot | 0.099 | 0.000045 | 0.454 | |
Flounder | 0.056 | 0.000026 | 0.255 | |
Wels catfish | 0.058 | 0.000026 | 0.263 | |
Freshwater | Nile perch | 0.138 | 0.000063 | 0.632 |
Rainbow trout | 0.018 | 0.000008 | 0.084 | |
Brown trout | 0.010 | 0.000004 | 0.043 | |
Pike | 0.128 | 0.000059 | 0.586 | |
Carp | 0.013 | 0.000006 | 0.061 | |
Pike perch | 0.125 | 0.000058 | 0.575 |
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Chicago/Turabian StyleBrodziak-Dopierała, Barbara, and Agnieszka Fischer. 2023. "Analysis of the Mercury Content in Fish for Human Consumption in Poland" Toxics 11, no. 8: 717. https://doi.org/10.3390/toxics11080717