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An Evaluation of Fish Tissue Monitoring Alternatives for Mercury and Selenium: Fish Muscle Biopsy Samples Versus Homogenized Whole Fillets
Fish contaminant studies with human health protection objectives typically focus on muscle tissue, recognizing that fillets are the commonly consumed tissue fraction. Muscle biopsy punch sampling for mercury analysis has recently been used as an alternative to harvesting fish for fillets; however, t...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8342331/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34331106 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00244-021-00872-w |
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author | Stahl, Leanne L. Snyder, Blaine D. McCarty, Harry B. Cohen, Tara R. Miller, Kenneth M. Fernandez, Mark B. Healey, John C. |
author_facet | Stahl, Leanne L. Snyder, Blaine D. McCarty, Harry B. Cohen, Tara R. Miller, Kenneth M. Fernandez, Mark B. Healey, John C. |
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description | Fish contaminant studies with human health protection objectives typically focus on muscle tissue, recognizing that fillets are the commonly consumed tissue fraction. Muscle biopsy punch sampling for mercury analysis has recently been used as an alternative to harvesting fish for fillets; however, there is limited information comparing fillet plug results to whole fillet results. This study was conducted to address that data gap and to test the applicability of plugs for monitoring associated with United States Environmental Protection Agency’s fish tissue-based mercury and selenium water quality criteria. The mercury phase included 300 fillet homogenates and 300 field-extracted plug samples from 60 fish, and the selenium phase included 120 fillet homogenates and 120 plugs from 30 fish. Both phases showed that there were no statistically significant differences between fillet plug and homogenized fillet results at the community level; however, a selenium plug monitoring alternative must employ a sufficiently sensitive analytical method and consider total solids. Plug and fillet sampling alternatives have inherent advantages and disadvantages. Fillet sampling provides sufficient mass to consider multiple contaminants but requires fish to be harvested. Plug sampling only provides adequate mass for a single analyte but may allow fish survival, although additional research is needed on survival following plug removal. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s00244-021-00872-w. |
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spelling | pubmed-83423312021-08-20 An Evaluation of Fish Tissue Monitoring Alternatives for Mercury and Selenium: Fish Muscle Biopsy Samples Versus Homogenized Whole Fillets Stahl, Leanne L. Snyder, Blaine D. McCarty, Harry B. Cohen, Tara R. Miller, Kenneth M. Fernandez, Mark B. Healey, John C. Arch Environ Contam Toxicol Article Fish contaminant studies with human health protection objectives typically focus on muscle tissue, recognizing that fillets are the commonly consumed tissue fraction. Muscle biopsy punch sampling for mercury analysis has recently been used as an alternative to harvesting fish for fillets; however, there is limited information comparing fillet plug results to whole fillet results. This study was conducted to address that data gap and to test the applicability of plugs for monitoring associated with United States Environmental Protection Agency’s fish tissue-based mercury and selenium water quality criteria. The mercury phase included 300 fillet homogenates and 300 field-extracted plug samples from 60 fish, and the selenium phase included 120 fillet homogenates and 120 plugs from 30 fish. Both phases showed that there were no statistically significant differences between fillet plug and homogenized fillet results at the community level; however, a selenium plug monitoring alternative must employ a sufficiently sensitive analytical method and consider total solids. Plug and fillet sampling alternatives have inherent advantages and disadvantages. Fillet sampling provides sufficient mass to consider multiple contaminants but requires fish to be harvested. Plug sampling only provides adequate mass for a single analyte but may allow fish survival, although additional research is needed on survival following plug removal. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s00244-021-00872-w. Springer US 2021-07-30 2021 /pmc/articles/PMC8342331/ /pubmed/34331106 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00244-021-00872-w Text en © The Author(s) 2021 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . |
spellingShingle | Article Stahl, Leanne L. Snyder, Blaine D. McCarty, Harry B. Cohen, Tara R. Miller, Kenneth M. Fernandez, Mark B. Healey, John C. An Evaluation of Fish Tissue Monitoring Alternatives for Mercury and Selenium: Fish Muscle Biopsy Samples Versus Homogenized Whole Fillets |
title | An Evaluation of Fish Tissue Monitoring Alternatives for Mercury and Selenium: Fish Muscle Biopsy Samples Versus Homogenized Whole Fillets |
title_full | An Evaluation of Fish Tissue Monitoring Alternatives for Mercury and Selenium: Fish Muscle Biopsy Samples Versus Homogenized Whole Fillets |
title_fullStr | An Evaluation of Fish Tissue Monitoring Alternatives for Mercury and Selenium: Fish Muscle Biopsy Samples Versus Homogenized Whole Fillets |
title_full_unstemmed | An Evaluation of Fish Tissue Monitoring Alternatives for Mercury and Selenium: Fish Muscle Biopsy Samples Versus Homogenized Whole Fillets |
title_short | An Evaluation of Fish Tissue Monitoring Alternatives for Mercury and Selenium: Fish Muscle Biopsy Samples Versus Homogenized Whole Fillets |
title_sort | evaluation of fish tissue monitoring alternatives for mercury and selenium: fish muscle biopsy samples versus homogenized whole fillets |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8342331/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34331106 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00244-021-00872-w |
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