PMID: 2499975Apr 1, 1989Paper

Chlorinated pesticide residues and polychlorinated biphenyls in fish from various locations in Czechoslovakia

Veterinární medicína
F KredlZdeňka Svobodová

Abstract

Samples of 14 fishes (175 samples on the whole) were examined in 1984 to 1986 for residues of chlorinated pesticides and polychlorinated biphenyls. Residues of the given substances were present in all the samples. The contents of chlorinated pesticide residues in fish are influenced mainly by the food spectrum; significant influence was also exerted by the contamination of the environment where the fish lived, by the age of the fish, and by the amount of their body fat in which the lipophile chlorinated carbohydrates are stored. No tolerance limits have been proposed in Czechoslovakia for the residues of chlorinated carbohydrates in fish bodies, except for the sum of DDT = 2.00 mg per kg of fat. When the data on the fish samples were compared with the highest admissible content of chlorinated pesticides per unit mass of fish muscle tissue tolerated in the FRG and the content of PCB tolerated in the USA, the fish from the Vltava river downstream of Prague fail to comply with these FRG and US regulations; all fish from all other places comply with them. Owing to large differences in the contents of fat in muscle between different fishes, it is more conclusive from the point of view of food hygiene to express the results as data p...Continue Reading

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