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RECORD NUMBER: 7 OF 5607

Main Title 2,3,7,8,-Tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin Equivalents in Tissues of Birds at Green Bay, Wisconsin, USA.
Author Jones, P. D. ; Giesy, J. P. ; Newsted, J. L. ; Verbrugge, D. A. ; Beaver., D. L. ;
CORP Author Michigan State Univ., East Lansing. ;National Fisheries Contaminant Research Center, Columbia, MO. ;Minnesota Univ.-Duluth. Natural Resources Research Inst.;Environmental Research Lab.-Duluth, MN.
Publisher c1993
Year Published 1993
Report Number EPA-R-815830-01-0; EPA/600/J-94/194;
Stock Number PB94-163730
Additional Subjects Birds ; Toxicity ; Water pollution effects ; Chlorinated hydrocarbons ; Polychlorinated biphenyls ; Furans ; Bioassay ; Tissues(Biology) ; Concentration(Composition) ; Embryos ; Chemical analysis ; Quality assurance ; Tables(Data) ; Reprint ; Green Bay(Wisconsin) ; Waterfowl ; Furans/polychlorinated dibenzo ; Dioxins
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NTIS  PB94-163730 Some EPA libraries have a fiche copy filed under the call number shown. 07/26/2022
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Abstract
The environment has become contaminated with complex mixtures of planar, chlorinated hydrocarbons (PCHs) such as polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins (PCDDs), polychlorinated dibenzofurans (PCDFs) and structurally similar compounds. Because the potencies of individual congeners to cause the same adverse effects vary greatly and the relative as well as absolute concentrations of individual PCH vary among samples from different locations, it is difficult to assess the toxic effects of these mixtures on wildlife. These compounds can cause a number of adverse effects, however, because the toxic effects which occur at ecologically-relevant concentrations such as embryo-lethality and birth defects appear to be mediated through the same mechanism.