Abstract
The Baltic Sea is contaminated with a variety of halogentaed hydrocarbons. An assessment of the risk implicated by human exposure to eg. contaminated fish should comprise all these compounds. However, toxicological information on many of the polyhalogenated compounds are very limited. This overview will thus cover only polychlorinated dioxins (PCDDs), dibenzofurans (PCDFs) as well as the polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs). There are 75 PCDDs, 135 PCDFs and 209 PCBs. Only PCDD/Fs with chlorine in at least the 4 lateral positions (2,3,7,8) are stable in the environment and thus found in the Baltic biota.
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Ahlborg, U.G. (1994). Human Health Risk Assessment and Risk Perception Related to the Baltic Sea. In: Bolt, H.M., Hellman, B., Dencker, L. (eds) Use of Mechanistic Information in Risk Assessment. Archives of Toxicology, Supplement 16, vol 16. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-78640-2_6
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