title: Bioaccessibility of polychlorinated biphenyls in different foods using an in vitro digestion method.
abstract: Bioaccessibility of organic pollutants in food is important for exposure estimation and risk assessment. An in vitro enzyme digestion experiment was carried out to analyze the bioaccessibility of PCBs in different foods including freshwater fish (bighead carp and oriental weather fish) and vegetables (spinach and cabbage). The results indicated that the bioaccessibility of PCBs in freshwater fish (3%) was much lower than that in leafy vegetables (25%). Based on field survey, the daily exposure TEQ value from these two types of food was 17.9 pg/kg bw/day. However, when bioaccessibility was taken into consideration, the value decreased to 0.61 pg/kg bw/day. Therefore, the forms of PCBs existing in food strongly influenced the bioavailability for humans, which may have important implications on dietary exposure. To our knowledge, this is the first paper to illustrate the bioaccessibility of PCBs in different foods using an in vitro digestion method.
authors.affiliation: Croucher Institute for Environmental Sciences and Department of Biology, Hong Kong Baptist University, Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong, China.
authors.forename: Guan Hua
authors.initials: GH
authors.lastname: Xing
authors.forename: Yu
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Yang
authors.forename: Janet Kit
authors.initials: JK
authors.lastname: Yan Chan
authors.forename: Shu
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Tao
authors.forename: Ming Hung
authors.initials: MH
authors.lastname: Wong
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001682:Biological Availability; D004063:Digestion; D004781:Environmental Exposure; D004785:Environmental Pollutants / Q000032:analysis*; D005399:Fishes; D005506:Food Contamination / Q000032:analysis*; D006801:Humans; D011078:Polychlorinated Biphenyls / Q000032:analysis*; D014675:Vegetables
chemical_list: D004785:Environmental Pollutants; D011078:Polychlorinated Biphenyls