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Perfluorinated compounds in red-throated divers from the German Baltic Sea: new findings from their distribution in 10 different tissues

Janne Rubarth A B E , Annekatrin Dreyer A C , Nils Guse D , Jürgen W. Einax B and Ralf Ebinghaus A
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A Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht, Max-Planck-Straße 1, D-21502 Geesthacht, Germany.

B Friedrich Schiller University of Jena, Lessingstraße 8, D-07743 Jena, Germany.

C Eurofins GfA GmbH, Air Monitoring, Stenzelring 14b, D-21107 Hamburg, Germany.

D Research and Technology Centre Westcoast (FTZ), University of Kiel, Hafentörn 1, D-25761 Büsum, Germany.

E Corresponding author. Present address: Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research Warnemünde, Seestraße 15, D-18119 Rostock, Germany. Email: janne.rubarth@io-warnemuende.de

Environmental Chemistry 8(4) 419-428 https://doi.org/10.1071/EN10142
Submitted: 23 December 2010  Accepted: 11 April 2011   Published: 19 August 2011

Journal Compilation © CSIRO Publishing 2011 Open Access CC BY-NC-ND

Environmental context. Perfluorinated compounds are commonly used chemicals that are detected globally in all environmental matrices. We investigated the extent of contamination by perfluorinated compounds in the red-throated diver, a marine predatory bird, and observed an unusual distribution of perfluorinated compounds in tissues. The data help us to better understand the behaviour of these contaminants in organisms.

Abstract. Twenty poly- and perfluorinated compounds (PFCs) were investigated in four red-throated divers (Gavia stellata) from the German Baltic Sea sampled in 2005. Concentrations of perfluoroalkyl sulfonates (PFSAs), perfluoroalkyl carboxylates (PFCAs), alkylated perfluoroalkyl sulfonamides, alkylated perfluoroalkyl sulfonamidoethanols and perfluorooctane sulfonamides were determined in blood, brain, fatty tissue, gall bladder, heart, kidney, liver, lung, muscle and spleen by high-performance liquid chromatography tandem mass spectrometry (HPLC-MS/MS). For quantification standard addition was applied. Twelve compounds were detected with average total PFC concentrations ranging from 42 ng g–1 in muscle to 220 ng g–1 in liver samples. Perfluorooctane sulfonate (PFOS) was the major compound in each of the 40 tissue samples. Except for brain, perfluoroundecanoate was the dominant PFCA. In brain samples preferential enrichment of long-chain PFSAs and PFCAs was observed. The total PFC body burden was estimated to 100 ± 39 µg. Multivariate statistical analyses supported the identification of the preferred accumulation ‘location’ of individual PFCs in the birds’ body.

Additional keywords: biota, birds, body burden, tissue distribution.


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