Farmed fish as a source of dioxins and PCBs for Polish consumers

Figures & Tables

Species	Sampling point (province, country)	Number of samples
eel	Warmian-Masuria, Greater Poland, Kuyavia-Pomerania, Pomerania, West Pomerania	15
rainbow trout	Lower Silesia, Lublin, Lubuskie, Lesser Poland, Masovia, Opole, Podlasie, Silesia, Warmia-Masuria	40
bream	West Pomerania, Lesser Poland, Warmia-Masuria, Greater Poland	18
sturgeon	Lower Silesia, Lublin, Lubuskie, Lesser Poland, Masovia, Opole, Podlasie, Silesian, Warmia-Masuria	15
carp	Lower Silesia, Lublin, Lubuskie, Lesser Poland, Masovia, Opole, Podlasie, Silesian, Warmia-Masuria	42
zander	Subcarpathia, Lublin, Warmia-Masuria	10
panga	Vietnam	10

Species	Fat %	pg WHO-TEQg⁻¹ w.w.					ng g⁻¹ w.w.

		PCDD	PCDF	PCDD/F	DL–PCB	PCDD/F/DL-PCB	NDL-PCB
eel	18.63 ± 6.81	0.30 ± 0.14	0.18 ± 0.07	0.48 ± 0.21	1.52 ± 0.68	2.00 ± 0.85	9.98 ± 6.43
		0.17–0.64	0.10–0.38	0.27–1.02	0.71–2.97	1.03–3.98	2.83–24.94

		0.15 ± 0.07	0.19 ± 0.1	0.33 ± 0.14	0.37 ± 0.18	0.70 ± 0.23	1.53 ± 0.49
bream	4.12 ± 0.8	0.09–0.26	0.06–0.34	0.20–0.58	0.20–0.67	0.45–1.01	0.60–1.96

		0.10 ± 0.03	0.08 ± 0.03	0.18 ± 0.03	0.27 ± 0.22	0.45 ± 0.24	1.93 ± 0.55
sturgeon	8.01 ± 4.16	0.09–0.14	0.05–0.13	0.13–0.21	0.17–0.67	0.31–0.88	1.16–2.4

		0.09 ± 0.02	0.05 ± 0.03	0.14 ± 0.3	0.19 ± 0.4	0.33 ± 0.72	0.50 ± 1.67
carp	6.01 ± 8.36	0.02–0.15	0.03–0.15	0.02–1.75	0.01–2.6	0.03–4.35	0.11–12.97

rainbow		0.09 ± 0.0	0.05 ± 0.01	0.14 ± 0.01	0.20 ± 0.08	0.32 ± 0.08	1.80 ± 1.34
trout	5.51 ± 1.71	0.09–0.09	0.04–0.07	0.03–0.32	0.02–0.33	0.05–0.47	0.05–8.39

panga		0.01 ± 0.0	0.01 ± 0.0	0.01 ± 0.0	0.01 ± 0.0	0.02 ± 0.0	0.06 ± 0.01
	0.93 ± 0.41	0.01–0.01	0.01–0.01	0.01–0.02	0.01–0.01	0.02–0.02	0.05–0.08

zander		0.01 ± 0.0	0.01 ± 0.0	0.01 ± 0.0	0.01 ± 0.0	0.03 ± 0.01	0.50 ± 0.67
	0.34 ± 0.05	0.01–0.01	0.01–0.01	0.01–0.01	0.01–0.02	0.02–0.04	0.11–2.97

Maximum	levels (reference 4)	–	–	3.5	–	6.5	75