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WP5: Results of investigation of intake and some ecotoxicological consequence of exposure of living organisms to POPs in some Croatian areas as consequence of war damages and detailed planning the future work for the first year

Accaptable daily intake (ADI) denotes the dose, expresed on a body weight basis, of a substance which can be accepted over a lifetime without appreciable health risk. The starting point is usually the no observed adverce effect level (NOAEL) estimated in 90-day animal studies and extrapolated to man with some margin of safety. the migration of PCBs from a waste dump into the karstic ground water and source water of the Kupa River in Slovenia has been established. An investigation of the levels of chlorinated hydrocarbons in tap water and water and fish samples collected from 1985 to 1988 from the Kupa River in the region of Petrinja and Sisak (about 200 km downstream from the primary contaminated area) was performed. Daily PCB and DDT intake was studied among sports fishermen and their families who consume fish from the Kupa River in significant quantities. The same calculations were performed for sports fishermen and their families in the Zadar area. From the hypothetic calculations has been seen, there are many persons (especially those assumed to consume fish caught from the Marina Station in Zadar) who ingest more than the acceptable daily PCB intake (ADI) — 1 &micro ; ; g/kg/day.

POPs; war waste; former Yugoslavia; Croatia

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