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Fish from the Laurentian Great Lakes, and related rivers, and lakes were examined for residues of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), dibenzofurans (PCDFs), and dibenzo-p-dioxins (PCDDs). Patterns of PCDF residues were more complex than those of PCDD residues, and were dominated by isomers having 2,3,7,8-chlorine substitution. PCDF residues were presented in samples from all of the Great Lakes and exceeded 100 pg/g in fish from Lakes Ontario and Huron, Michigan, and Saginaw Bay. A composite sample of fish from the Tittabawassee River (Michigan) contained 290 pg/g of PCDFs and 223 pg/g of PCDDs. Ratios of PCDFs to PCBs ranged from 1 to 20 X 106. Attempts to correlate PCDF residue levels in biological samples with PCDF concentrations in PCB preparations are complicated by an apparent preferential retention or accumulation of 2,3,7,8-substituted congeners. The PCDF concentrations in a fish from Lake Siskiwit (on Isle Royale, Lake Superior) were the lowest detected in this study (15 pg/g). Fish from Lakes Huron and Ontario, the Tittabawasee River and Saginaw Bay contained the highest concentrations of 2,3,7,8-TCDF. In another river system, the Housatonic River, Massachusetts, the composition of PCDD and PCDF residues in sediments differed radically from residues in fish from this river.
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Stalling, D.L. et al. (1983). Residues of Polychlorinated Dibenzo-P-Dioxins and Dibenzofurans in Laurentian Great Lakes Fish. In: Tucker, R.E., Young, A.L., Gray, A.P. (eds) Human and Environmental Risks of Chlorinated Dioxins and Related Compounds. Environmental Science Research, vol 26. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-3599-3_17
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