Alkylphenol concentrations in two rivers of Turkey

Date

2003-06-01

Author

Uguz, C
Togan, İnci Zehra
Eroglu, Y
Tabak, I
Zengin, M
İşcan, Mesude

Metadata

Show full item record

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Item Usage Stats

10
views

0
downloads

Cite This

Alkylphenol polyethoxylates (APEs) called environmental endocrine disruptors has been shown to accumulate in water around the world. In this study.. the pollution level of alkylphenolic compounds was measured and quantified in water, sediment, and the tissues of fishes collected in two rivers, Sakarya and Degirmendere Rivers, Turkey. Butylphenol (BP) were detected in sediment samples at one sampling stations of both rivers with 1.68 and 3.15 mug/g sediment, while nonylphenol (NP) were detected with the amount of 4.46 mug/g sediment in one sampling station in Degirmendere river. Fish samples also showed the presence of alkylphenolic compounds in both rivers. The level of alkylphenol pollution in two rivers of Turkey was determined to be in the range of alkylphenol level reported in Europe but lower than that of in the USA.

Subject Keywords

Toxicology, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Pharmacology, General Medicine

URI

https://hdl.handle.net/11511/56585

Collections

Department of Biology, Article