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Evaluation of selected lipid methods for normalizing pollutant bioaccumulation
Author(s) -
Randall Robert C.,
Lee Henry,
Ozretich Robert J.,
Lake James L.,
Pruell Richard J.
Publication year - 1991
Publication title -
environmental toxicology and chemistry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.1
H-Index - 171
eISSN - 1552-8618
pISSN - 0730-7268
DOI - 10.1002/etc.5620101108
Subject(s) - bioaccumulation , pollutant , environmental chemistry , organism , environmental science , chemistry , biology , organic chemistry , paleontology
Current environmental models use organism lipid concentrations to estimate maximum pollutant bioaccumulation potentials. This collaborative study has shown that significantly different lipid concentrations (3.5X) are found when using common, but different, extraction solvents and methods. Based on these variable lipid values, models that estimate tissue pollutant concentrations normalized to lipid will give significantly different bioaccumulation estimates. To reduce that variability, a standard lipid method needs to be developed or adopted.