| Issue |
E3S Web Conf.
Volume 407, 2023
Actual Problems of Ecology and Environmental Management (APEEM 2023)
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| Article Number | 04001 | |
| Number of page(s) | 5 | |
| Section | Environmental and Food Safety | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/e3sconf/202340704001 | |
| Published online | 02 August 2023 | |
Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) in fish biota of Guanabara Bay at Rio de Janeiro - Brazil
1 Instituto de Biofísica Carlos Chagas Filho da Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2 Departamento de Engenharia Industrial da Escola Politécnica da Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
* Corresponding author: jptorres@biof.ufrj.br
Fish is present in the Brazilian diet and represents an important participation in protein consumption. The use of highly toxic pesticides is still tolerated in Brazil despite being banned in many parts of the world. This study records traces of contamination by Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) at Guanabara Bay at Rio de Janeiro (Brazil). Our results indicate that local production and the widespread use of such chlorinated compounds in the past decades are being reflected on the edible fish tissue concentrations.
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