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Tracking pollutants in dietary fish oil: from ocean to table.

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dc.creator Sheng-Xiang, Sun
dc.creator Xue-Ming, Hua
dc.creator Yun-Yun, Deng
dc.creator Yun-Ni, Zhang
dc.creator Jia-Min, Li
dc.creator Zhao, Wu
dc.creator Samwel Mchele Limbu
dc.creator Da-Sheng, Lu
dc.creator Hao-Wen, Yin
dc.creator Guo-Quan, Wang
dc.creator Rune, Waagbø
dc.creator Frøyland, Livar
dc.creator Mei-Ling, Zhang
dc.creator Zhen-Yu, Du
dc.date 2019-05-07T14:21:32Z
dc.date 2019-05-07T14:21:32Z
dc.date 2018-05-16
dc.date.accessioned 2021-05-07T07:47:50Z
dc.date.available 2021-05-07T07:47:50Z
dc.identifier http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11810/5224
dc.identifier https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envpol.2018.05.027
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11810/5224
dc.description Dietary fish oil used in aquafeed transfers marine pollutants to farmed fish. However, the entire transfer route of marine pollutants in dietary fish oil from ocean to table fish has not been tracked quantitatively. To track the entire transfer route of marine pollutants from wild fish to farmed fish through dietary fish oil and evaluate the related human health risks, we obtained crude and refined fish oils originating from the same batch of wild ocean anchovy and prepared fish oil-containing purified aquafeeds to feed omnivorous lean Nile tilapia and carnivorous fatty yellow catfish for eight weeks. The potential human health risk of consumption of these fish was evaluated. Marine persistent organic pollutants (POPs) were concentrated in fish oil, but were largely removed by the refining process, particularly dioxins and polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs). The differences in the POP concentrations between crude and refined fish oils were retained in the fillets of the farmed fish. Fillets fat content and fish growth were positively and negatively correlated to the final POPs deposition in fillets, respectively. The retention rates of marine POPs in the final fillets through fish oil-contained aquafeeds were 1.3%–5.2%, and were correlated with the POPs concentrations in feeds and fillets, feed utilization and carcass ratios. The dietary crude fish oil-contained aquafeeds are a higher hazard ratio to consumers. Prohibiting the use of crude fish oil in aquafeed and improving growth and feed efficiency in farmed fish are promising strategies to reduce health risks originating from marine POPs.
dc.description The Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities of China
dc.publisher Elsevier
dc.subject Marine pollutants
dc.subject Dietary fish oil
dc.subject Aquafeeds
dc.subject Farmed fish
dc.subject Health risk
dc.subject Pollutant transfer route
dc.title Tracking pollutants in dietary fish oil: from ocean to table.
dc.type Journal Article, Peer Reviewed


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