Fish Intake, Contaminants, and Human Health

Fish intake, contaminants, and human health: evaluating the risks and the benefits.

CONTEXT Fish (finfish or shellfish) may have health benefits and also contain contaminants, resulting in confusion over the role of fish consumption in a healthy diet. EVIDENCE ACQUISITION We searched MEDLINE, governmental reports, and meta-analyses, supplemented by hand reviews of references and direct investigator contacts, to identify reports published through April 2006 evaluating (1) int...

occurrence of organochlorines contaminants in coastal fish from sepetiba bay: levels and human health repercussions

the aim of this study was to survey levels of polychlorinated biphenyls (pcbs), polychlorinated dibenzofurans (pcdfs), and polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins (pcdds) in white mullet (mugil curema), common snook (centropomus undecimalis), and acoupa weakfish (cynoscion acoupa), collected at sepetiba bay, rio de janeiro, brazil, march-august 2013. pcbs and pcdd/fs were determined by high resolutio...

Contaminants in fish.

-The degree of non-neoplastic host-cell infiltration was assessed in 3 in vivo-in vitro tumour models commonly used in radiobiological studies: EMT6/Ro mammary carcinoma, 9L/Ro tumour and KHT sarcoma. While the 2 former tumour models have been shown to be moderately to highly immunogenic when grown s.c., the KHT sarcoma is apparently non-immunogenic. Using differential staining on single-cell s...

Ochratoxins—Food Contaminants: Impact on Human Health

Ochratoxins are secondary metabolites of Aspergillus and Penicillium, that are hazardous to health through contamination of dietary foods. Ochratoxin A (OTA) remains the single most potent member of this group of mycotoxins. OTA has a long half-life in humans and is thus easily detected in serum. Dietary intake studies have confirmed link between endemic nephrotoxicity in humans to their daily ...

Overview: Human Health Effects of Environmental Contaminants