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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH AND PUBLIC HEALTH
Volume 12, Issue 1, Pages 940-951Publisher
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DOI: 10.3390/ijerph120100940
Keywords
benzo[a]pyrene; benzo[k]fluoranthrene; processed fish (fried; grilled and boiled); sum of the two PAHs (Sigma 2PAH); abundance
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In this study, the concentration levels of the probable carcinogenic PAH fractions, benzo[a]pyrene (BaP) and benzo[k]fluoranthrene (BkF) in fillets of some processed fish species were investigated. Fish species comprising Merluccius poli (hake), Tyrsites atun (snoek), Seriola lalandi (yellow-tail) and Brama brama (angel fish) were bought in fish shops at Gordon's Bay, Western Cape, South Africa. The fish were gutted, filleted and prepared for edibility by frying, grilling and boiling. Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons were extracted from each homogenized fish sample, cleaned-up using solid phase extraction (SPE), and analysed for the PAH fractions, BaP and BkF using a Gas Chromatograph coupled with a Flame Ionization Detector (GC-FID). The sum of the two PAHs (Sigma 2PAH) i.e., BaP and BkF ranged between 0.56 and 1.46 mu g/kg, in all boiled, grilled and fried fish species. The fried fish extracts showed significantly higher (p < 0.05) abundance of Sigma 2PAH, than grilled and boiled fish. Dietary safety and PAHs toxicity was also discussed.
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