Long-Chain Chlorinated Paraffins Have Reached the ArcticShow others and affiliations
2021 (English)In: Environmental Science and Technology Letters, E-ISSN 2328-8930, Vol. 8, no 9, p. 753-759Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]
Chlorinated paraffins (CPs) were analyzed in marine wildlife from Greenland, Iceland, and the Swedish west coast. CPs up to C29 were detected in the samples from the Arctic, indicating long-range transport of an industrial chemical group with a 2-million-ton annual production volume. CP concentrations were generally higher in biota from the Swedish west coast. The Sweden/Arctic concentration ratios for very-short-chain (vSCCPs, C<10), short-chain (SCCPs, C10-13), medium-chain (MCCPs, C14-17), and long-chain CPs (LCCPs, C>17) in cetacean and bivalve species were in the range of 3.6-150, 5-29, 3-11, and 11-450, respectively. For the first time, fetal accumulation of four CP classes was found, whereby concentrations were 3.4 to 4.5 times lower in the fetus relative to the pregnant female minke whale. Cetacean blubber contained a higher proportion of higher chlorinated CPs compared to muscle tissue, while muscle contained higher lipid-normalized concentrations of longer chain CPs than blubber tissue. LCCPs predominated (52% of total CPs) in the muscle of a killer whale from Swedish waters, which is the first report where concentrations of LCCPs surpassed those of other CPs in marine mammals. This study shows that, like other CP classes, LCCPs are Arctic contaminants that may adversely affect biota in this remote region. © 2021 The Authors.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
American Chemical Society , 2021. Vol. 8, no 9, p. 753-759
Keywords [en]
Mammals, Muscle, Annual production, Bivalve species, Chlorinated paraffins, Concentration ratio, Long range transport, Marine mammals, Marine wildlife, Muscle tissues, Paraffins
National Category
Environmental Sciences
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:ri:diva-56720DOI: 10.1021/acs.estlett.1c00470Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85113724994OAI: oai:DiVA.org:ri-56720DiVA, id: diva2:1599656
Note
Funding details: -113-00054; Funding details: Svenska Forskningsrådet Formas, 2017-01276; Funding text 1: We want to thank Mathane Qatsa and Peter Hegelund for their help in the field when collecting narwhal and killer whale samples. Prof. Åke Bergman and Dr. Ioannis Athanassiadis [Department of Environmental Science (ACES), Stockholm University] are acknowledged for providing the Greenland shark samples. Martin Kruså and Wanjiao Kong (ACES) are acknowledged for sample extraction and cleanup. This study was funded by the Swedish Research Council for Environment, Agricultural Sciences and Spatial Planning (FORMAS No. 2017-01276). The collection of samples from Greenland was funded by the Ministry of Environment of Denmark (#MST-113-00054).
2021-10-012021-10-012022-07-14Bibliographically approved