Nutritional Quality and Assessment of Contaminants in Farmed Atlantic Salmon (Salmo salar L.) of Different Origins
Table 3
Concentrations in μg·kg−1 wet weight for organohalogenated pollutants determined in Atlantic salmon from different origins.
Pollutant
Norway-Central (n = 17)
Norway-North (n = 10)
Norway-South (n = 13)
Scotland (n = 8)
Icelandb (n = 2)
Chile (n = 5)
PCB 28
0.162 ± 0.048
0.177 ± 0.089
0.176 ± 0.040
<0.05
<0.05
<0.05
PCB 52
0.258 ± 0.089
0.250 ± 0.150
0.280 ± 0.078
<0.05
<0.05
<0.05
PCB 101
0.448 ± 0.239
0.568 ± 0.422
0.442 ± 0.142
0.288 ± 0.237
0.136#
<0.05
PCB 138
1.11 ± 0.37
1.10 ± 0.63
1.24 ± 0.32
0.303 ± 0.123
<0.05
<0.05
PCB 153
1.23 ± 0.43
1.38 ± 0.59
1.38 ± 0.35
0.653 ± 0.429
0.435#
<0.05
PCB 180
0.337 ± 0.102
0.342 ± 0.190
0.372 ± 0.094
0.175 ± 0.131
<0.05
<0.05
∑NDL-PCB
3.54 ± 1.23
3.82 ± 1.40
3.88 ± 0.94
1.47 ± 0.685
0.671#
<0.30
o,p'-DDD
0.112 ± 0.027
0.301 ± 0.372
0.120 ± 0.023
<0.05
0.377#
<0.05
p,p'-DDD
0.519 ± 0.142
1.41 ± 1.66
0.561 ± 0.131
1.02 ± 0.79
1.01#
<0.05
p,p'-DDE
2.23 ± 0.56
5.83 ± 6.98
2.38 ± 0.39
4.89 ± 5.49
6.43#
0.139#
HCB
1.81 ± 0.67
1.58 ± 0.74
1.57 ± 0.69
1.12 ± 0.48
1.67#
<0.05
PCBs
0.079 ± 0.021
0.080 ± 0.036
0.078 ± 0.014
<0.05
<0.05
<0.05
PBDE 47
0.201 ± 0.069
0.188 ± 0.095
0.223 ± 0.047
0.044 ± 0.034
<0.05
<0.05
PBDE 49
0.036 ± 0.018
0.038 ± 0.018
0.042 ± 0.015
<0.05
<0.05
<0.05
PBDE 100
0.047 ± 0.026
0.054 ± 0.021
0.055 ± 0.021
0.058 ± 0.032
<0.05
<0.05
PFHpA
0.016 ± 0.012
0.011 ± 0.010
0.020 ± 0.012
<0.01
<0.01
<0.01
PFOA
0.123 ± 0.064
0.085 ± 0.088
0.079 ± 0.066
<0.01
<0.01
<0.01
FOSA
0.075 ± 0.023
0.070 ± 0.030
0.058 ± 0.025
0.022 ± 0.033
<0.01
<0.01
Values are expressed as mean ± standard deviation (SD). Concentration below the respective method quantification limit (MQL). #SD was not calculated due to the low number of samples from the respective locality (Iceland, Chile).
