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Arsenic speciation in fish and shellfish from the North Sea (Southern bight) and Acu Port area (Brazil) and health risks related to seafood consumption Vrije Universiteit Brussel
In North Sea and Port Açu (Brazil) coastal areas, high arsenic (As) concentrations were observed in water, soil and sediments. Therefore, the impact of this contamination on fish and shellfish species bought from local fishermen was studied. Total As was assessed with ICP-OES (Brazil) and ICP-MS (North Sea) after microwave digestion. Toxic As was assessed with liquid chromatography-ICP-MS (Brazil) and hydride generation-atomic fluorescence ...
Health risk/benefit information for consumers of fish and shellfish : FishChoice, a new online tool Ghent University
Health risks related to seafood consumption and arsenic speciation in fish and shellfish from North Sea (Southern bight) and Açu Port area (Brazil) Vrije Universiteit Brussel
In both the North Sea and the Açu Port (Brazil) coastal areas, high As concentrations were observed in water, soil and sediments. Therefore, the impact of this contamination on fish and shellfish species bought from local fishermen was studied. Total As was assessed by ICP-MS while toxic As was assessed by ICPMS-HPLC and HG-AFS. Several fish species had average Total As concentrations above 1 mg g−1, but the highest concentrations were found ...
Evolution of fish and shellfish supplies originating from wild fisheries in Thailand between 1995 and 2015 Ghent University
ACFA Working Group 2 "Aquaculture: fish, shellfish and molluscs" Research Institute for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food
Dietary exposure to total and toxic arsenic in Belgium: Importance of arsenic speciation in North Sea fish Ghent University
Total and toxic (sum of As(III), As(V), monomethylarsenic (MMA), and dimethylarsenic (DMA)) As concentrations were assessed in 19 respectively 4 different fish and shellfish species from the North Sea. Following results were obtained: (i) for fish an average total As concentration of 12.8 mu g/g ww and a P90 value of 30.6 mu g/g ww; (ii) for shellfish an average total As concentration of 21.6 mu g/g ww and a P90 value of 40.0 mu g/g ww; (iii) ...
Fish consumption patterns and hair mercury levels in children and their mothers in 17 EU countries KU Leuven University of Antwerp
The toxicity of methylmercury (MeHg) in humans is well established and the main source of exposure is via the consumption of large marine fish and mammals. Of particular concern are the potential neurodevelopmental effects of early life exposure to low-levels of MeHg. Therefore, it is important that pregnant women, children and women of childbearing age are, as far as possible, protected from MeHg exposure. Within the European project ...
Fish and fiction : aquatic animals between science and imagination (1500-1900) Ghent University
Fish have played an important role in the lives of humans since times immemorial. Not only do these agile water creatures serve us as food, they also inhabit a different, non-human world, which is why they were invested with all kinds of meanings and powers. Fish also exemplify the progress of science from early modern natural history to modern marine biology. The exhibition focuses on fish in their pre-modern sense, as aquatilia, meaning all ...
Harmful algal blooms and their effects in coastal seas of Northern Europe Flanders Marine Institute
Harmful algal blooms (HAB) are recurrent phenomena in northern Europe along the coasts of the Baltic Sea, Kattegat-Skagerrak, eastern North Sea, Norwegian Sea and the Barents Sea. These HABs have caused occasional massive losses for the aquaculture industry and have chronically affected socioeconomic interests in several ways. This status review gives an overview of historical HAB events and summarises reports to the Harmful Algae Event Database ...