Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons and their hydroxylated metabolites in fish bile and sediments from coastal waters of Colombia.
Sediments and fish bile collected from the Atlantic coastal waters of Colombia were analyzed for 16 parent polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), and 23 hydroxylated PAHs (OH-PAHs), respectively. Sediments contained overall mean SigmaPAH concentrations of 2090, 234 and 170 ng/g, dry wt, for Cartagena Bay, Caimanera Marsh, and Totumo Marsh, respectively. The mean concentration of the summed OH-PAHs in fish bile was 1250, 180 and 64.1 ng/g bile wt for Cartagena Bay, Caimanera Marsh, and Totumo Marsh, respectively. The results suggest that Cartagena Bay is heavily polluted by PAHs, and that exposure to high concentrations of PAHs together with other factors could contribute to the decreased health of fish living in this ecosystem. This is one of the first studies to describe the analysis of 23 individual OH-PAHs in fish bile, using authentic standards.
Johnson-Restrepo
Boris
B
Wadsworth Center, New York State Department of Health, Department of Environmental Health Sciences, School of Public Health, State University of New York at Albany, Albany, NY 12201-0509, USA.
Olivero-Verbel
Jesus
J
Lu
Shijun
S
Guette-Fernández
Jorge
J
Baldiris-Avila
Rosa
R
O'Byrne-Hoyos
Indira
I
Aldous
Kenneth M
KM
Addink
Rudolf
R
Kannan
Kurunthachalam
K
D000818:Animals; D001646:Bile / Q000737:chemistry*; D001711:Biotransformation; D003105:Colombia; D004784:Environmental Monitoring / Q000379:methods; D005399:Fishes / Q000378:metabolism*; D019015:Geologic Sediments / Q000032:analysis*; D006900:Hydroxylation; D009792:Oceans and Seas; D011084:Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons / Q000032:analysis*; D013057:Spectrum Analysis; D014874:Water Pollutants, Chemical / Q000032:analysis*
D011084:Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons; D014874:Water Pollutants, Chemical