Authors: V Lo Turco G Di Bella L La Pera F Conte B Macrí G mo Dugo
Publish Date: 2007/03/07
Volume: 132, Issue: 1-3, Pages: 411-417
Abstract
The aim of this research was to compare the levels of organochlorine pesticides and PCBs in samples of Dicentrarchus labrax living in the Straits of Messina with samples cultivated in cages in the Mediterranean Sea Muscles and liver tissues sampled over the months within the same year were analyzed The quantitative determination of the organochlorine compounds was performed by GCECD and confirmed with GC–MS The results showed that the concentrations of DDTs in muscles and livers as such of reared sea bass were in the range 02–13 μg/kg and 96 –484 μg/kg respectively In wild fish the concentrations of DDTs were very much lower 01 μg/kg in muscles 51–90 μg/kg in livers Total PCBs levels were higher in cultivated sea bass than in wild fish the concentration ranges were 53–597 μg/kg and 744–2674 μg/kg in muscle and liver of reared samples respectively and 11–15 μg/kg and 632–1094 μg/kg in muscle and liver of wild samples respectively
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