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Lake, Iain R. 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4407-5357, Foxall, Christopher D., Fernandes, Alwyn, Lewis, Mervyn, White, Oliver, Mortimer, David, Dowding, Alan and Rose, Martin
(2014)
The effects of river flooding on dioxin and PCBs in beef.
Science of the Total Environment, 491-492 (1).
184–191.
ISSN 0048-9697
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Abstract
In 2008-2010, samples of meat from 40 beef cattle, along with grass, soil and commercial feed, taken from ten matched pairs of flood-prone and control farms, were analysed for PCDD/Fs and PCBs. Concentrations were higher in soil and grass from flood-prone farms. The beef samples from flood-prone farms had total TEQ levels about 20% higher than on control farms. A majority of flood-prone farms (7/10) had higher median levels in beef than on the corresponding control farm. This first controlled investigation into PCDD/F and PCB contamination in beef produced on flood-prone land, presents robust evidence that flooding is a contaminant transfer mechanism to cattle raised on river catchments with a history of urbanisation and industrialisation. PCDD/F and PCB sources in these river systems are likely to be a result of the legacy of contamination from previous industrialisation, as well as more recent combustion activity or pollution events. Crown
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | dioxins,pcbs,flooding,beef,food,risk assessment |
| Faculty \ School: | Faculty of Science > School of Environmental Sciences University of East Anglia Research Groups/Centres > Theme - ClimateUEA |
| UEA Research Groups: | University of East Anglia Schools > Faculty of Science > Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research Faculty of Science > Research Centres > Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research Faculty of Science > Research Groups > Environmental Social Sciences |
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| Depositing User: | Pure Connector |
| Date Deposited: | 30 May 2014 20:50 |
| Last Modified: | 20 Mar 2023 14:37 |
| URI: | https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/47921 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2014.01.080 |
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