DocumentCode
3346587
Title
Notice of Retraction
Primary Study of the Levels of PBDEs, PCBs, OCPs, and PAHs in Fish and Shellfish in Taihu Lake, China
Author
Yu-ping Pang ; Ning-bao Huang ; Jun-ling Li ; Liang Chen ; Shaohuan Zhang ; Ying-xin Yu
Author_Institution
Sch. of Environ. & Chem. Eng., Shanghai Univ., Shanghai, China
fYear
2011
fDate
10-12 May 2011
Firstpage
1
Lastpage
4
Abstract
Notice of Retraction
After careful and considered review of the content of this paper by a duly constituted expert committee, this paper has been found to be in violation of IEEE´s Publication Principles.
We hereby retract the content of this paper. Reasonable effort should be made to remove all past references to this paper.
The presenting author of this paper has the option to appeal this decision by contacting TPII@ieee.org.
Levels of polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs), polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), organochlorine pesticides (OCPs), and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in fish and shellfish collected in Taihu Lake, China, were determined. All the chemicals were detected in the samples. The concentrations of PBDEs (31.7-4303.3 pg/g) and PCBs (82.4-437.7 pg/g) were about two orders of magnitude lower than those of OCPs (1505.8 23278.4 pg/g) and PAHs (4062.8-22710.0 pg/g). BDE47, CB153, p,p´-DDE, and phenanthrene were predominant for PBDEs, PCBs, OCPs and PAHs, respectively. Compared with other studies in fish and shellfish in China, the contaminant levels were comparable with those of sample in modest contaminated freshwater systems, but much lower than those offish in highly contaminated water bodies.
After careful and considered review of the content of this paper by a duly constituted expert committee, this paper has been found to be in violation of IEEE´s Publication Principles.
We hereby retract the content of this paper. Reasonable effort should be made to remove all past references to this paper.
The presenting author of this paper has the option to appeal this decision by contacting TPII@ieee.org.
Levels of polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs), polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), organochlorine pesticides (OCPs), and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in fish and shellfish collected in Taihu Lake, China, were determined. All the chemicals were detected in the samples. The concentrations of PBDEs (31.7-4303.3 pg/g) and PCBs (82.4-437.7 pg/g) were about two orders of magnitude lower than those of OCPs (1505.8 23278.4 pg/g) and PAHs (4062.8-22710.0 pg/g). BDE47, CB153, p,p´-DDE, and phenanthrene were predominant for PBDEs, PCBs, OCPs and PAHs, respectively. Compared with other studies in fish and shellfish in China, the contaminant levels were comparable with those of sample in modest contaminated freshwater systems, but much lower than those offish in highly contaminated water bodies.
Keywords
agrochemicals; aquaculture; contamination; food safety; microorganisms; organic compounds; water pollution; China; OCP; PAH; PBDE; PCB; Taihu Lake; contaminant level; organochlorine pesticides; phenanthrene; polybrominated diphenyl ethers; polychlorinated biphenyls; polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon; shellfish; Chemicals; Hydrocarbons; Lakes; Lipidomics; Manganese; Marine animals; Monitoring;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Bioinformatics and Biomedical Engineering, (iCBBE) 2011 5th International Conference on
Conference_Location
Wuhan
ISSN
2151-7614
Print_ISBN
978-1-4244-5088-6
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/icbbe.2011.5781589
Filename
5781589
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