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Screening study on hazardous substances in marine mammals of the Baltic Sea

Description: Seals and whales are at the end of the food chain and are thus exposed to a high bioaccumulation of pollutants. The aim of the project under the German HELCOM Chairmanship 2020 - 2022 was to screen for potentially hazardous novel contaminants in marine mammals from the Baltic Sea using state-of-the-art analytical methods for wide-scope target and suspect screening. For this purpose, 11 pooled liver samples and one non-pooled muscle sample from 11 marine mammals (harbour porpoise ( Phocoena phocoena ), common dolphin ( Delphinus delphis ), grey seal ( Halichoerus grypus ), harbour seal ( Phoca vitulina )) were provided by HELCOM contracting parties from Germany, Sweden, Denmark and Poland and analysed for the presence of 65,690 substances. A simplified risk assessment was carried out for the detected pollutants, they are published in the NORMAN database system, and are available for the development of a marine mammal indicator and for the development of a Baltic Sea-wide and possibly European action plan on hazardous substances in the sea. Veröffentlicht in Texte | 36/2022.

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Tags: Delfin ? Gewöhnlicher Schweinswal ? Seehund ? Kegelrobbe ? Meeressäugetier ? Wal ? Robbe ? Contracting ? Dänemark ? Polen ? Schweden ? HELCOM ? EU-Aktionsplan ? Analyseverfahren ? Bioakkumulation ? Gefahrstoff ? Stand der Technik ? Studie ? Vertrag ? Meeresgewässer ? Stoff ? Datenbank ? Nahrungskette ? Ostsee ? Risikobewertung ?

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Language: Englisch/English

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Issued: 2022-04-01

Time ranges: 2022-04-01 - 2022-04-01

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