Halogenated organic compounds in archived whale oil : a pre-industrial record
Halogenated organic compounds in archived whale oil : a pre-industrial record
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2006-07-24
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Teuten, Emma L.
Reddy, Christopher M.
Reddy, Christopher M.
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Archived whale oil
Natural products
Halogenated organic compounds
Bioaccumulation
Natural products
Halogenated organic compounds
Bioaccumulation
Abstract
To provide additional evidence that several halogenated organic compounds (HOCs) found in environmental samples are natural and not industrially produced, we analyzed an archived whale oil sample collected in 1921 from the last voyage of the whaling ship Charles W. Morgan. This sample, which predates large-scale industrial manufacture of HOCs, contained two methoxylated polybrominated diphenyl ethers (MeO-PBDEs), five halogenated methyl bipyrroles (MBPs), one halogenated dimethyl bipyrrole (DMBP), and one dimethoxylated polybrominated biphenyl (diMeO-PBB). This result indicates, at least in part, a natural source of the latter compounds. Capsule Nine halogenated organic compounds have been detected in archived whale oil from the 1920s.
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Author Posting. © The Authors, 2006. This is the author's version of the work. It is posted here by permission of Elsevier B.V. for personal use, not for redistribution. The definitive version was published in Environmental Pollution 145 (2007): 668-671, doi:10.1016/j.envpol.2006.08.022.