Perchlorate trophic transfer increases tissue concentrations above ambient water exposure alone in a predatory fish. Academic Article uri icon

abstract

  • This study examined effects of varying concentrations of the environmental contaminant perchlorate in northern pike (Esox lucius) based on exposure in water and/or from prey (threespine stickleback, Gasterosteus aculeatus). Routes of exposure to pike were through contaminated water at 0, 10, or 100 mg/L perchlorate for 49 d and/or through feeding, 1 per day over 14 d, sticklebacks that were previously maintained in water at 0, 10, or 100 mg/L perchlorate. Both water and food significantly contributed to pike tissue concentrations of perchlorate as compared to controls, but, as expected for a water-soluble contaminant, perchlorate did not biomagnify from prey to predatory fish. Pike gastrointestinal tissue retained significantly more perchlorate than other tissues combined. Route of exposure and concentration of perchlorate in various media are important to consider in risk assessment when evaluating uptake and tissue concentration of perchlorate because significantly higher tissue concentrations may result from combined prey and water exposures than from prey or water exposures alone in a concentration-dependent manner.

published proceedings

  • J Toxicol Environ Health A

author list (cited authors)

  • Furin, C. G., von Hippel, F. A., Hagedorn, B., & O'Hara, T. M.

citation count

  • 3

complete list of authors

  • Furin, Christoff G||von Hippel, Frank A||Hagedorn, Birgit||O'Hara, Todd M

publication date

  • January 2013